Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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The IPCC is the largest and most complex scientific collaboration in the history of the world. Now that it's sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, there's a good chance that America will finally put away the false debate about about climate science that has been manufactured by ideologues who mean the earth no good. Six years of deliberate assault upon the integrity of science by current occupants of the White House has also contributed mightily to the success of the campaign of denial.
The IPCC is truly a marvel of modern scientific sharing. More than 2000 scientists from virtually every country on earth -- including the US -- are members of the IPCC, and in their fourth assessment report, issued this year, they have found unequivocally that human activity is responsible for global warming.
It is the definitive scientific report, and it provides a global call to action.
Yet, a handful of well-funded think tanks using half a dozen junk scientists have been able to sow doubt in the US about the validity of the IPCC findings. The score is 2000 to 6, more or less, yet the deniers have been prevailing. Maybe the Nobel will tip the scales in favor of the truth, and relegate global warming deniers to the dubious moral territory inhabited by others of like-mind who deny other inconvenient truths: the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the sexual enslavement of thousands of women by the Japanese military during World War II.
"Never happened," they say.
"Ain't happening," say the global warming deniers. "IPCC? What's that?"
Now we know.
