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Who is the head of IPCC?

Rajendra PachauriRajendra Pachauri


What is the fullform of IPcC?

Intergovernmental panel on climate change


How much funding does the IPCC receive from the federal government?

According to Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), the US currently funds the IPCC to the tune of $12.5 million a year (increasing to $13 million in 2012), although this figure is disputed by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) claiming that the IPCC receives $2.3 million in federal funding. However this may be a moot point as, following debate the House of Representatives, on Saturday 19 February 2011, voted 244 to 179 to eliminate funding for the United Nations IPCC.


What scandals has the IPCC been part of?

The IPCC has also been involved in a number of scandals including: Climate-Gate - e-mails obtained from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia suggested that facts inconvenient to the global warming case were being deliberately hidden/obscured. Himalaya-Gate - Alarmist report by the IPCC that the Himalyan glacier will have melted by 2035. As it transpired the report was without any scientific basis. Amazon-Gate - The IPCC claimed that up to 40% of the rain forests in the Amazon were at risk from global warming and would likely be replaced by "tropical savannas" if temperatures continued to rise. The scientific-looking report, on which this claim was based, was a non-peer reviewed article for the WWF, by an Australian policy analyst and a freelance journalist for the Guardian newspaper (not even experts let alone scientists!). But the biggest scandal to date is the IPCC's claim, made in 1995, that it had found "a "discernible human influence" on the earth's changing climate. The claim was inserted by the report's lead author, Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore government laboratory, after the IPCC's consulting scientists had agreed a draft that specifically said no such "human fingerprint" had been found. Due to this deliberate reversal of the report's findings, Santer also altered the trajectory of every IPCC document since. He argued that the alteration that it was justified based on two of his own studies, which "cherry-picked" the earth's temperature record from 1963-1987, deliberately ignoring temperatures that didn't confirm the Greenhouse theory. Thus the "discernible human influence" as claimed by the IPCC remains without scientific support to this day.


Has the IPCC been wrong before?

Unfortunately the IPCC's record is far from good when it comes to getting things right.The most notable case was the so-called Himalaya-Gate affair, when the organisation released an alarmist report in 2007, claiming that the Himalyan glacier will have melted by 2035. As it transpired the report was without any scientific basis and was based on a report an IPCC employee ("expert reviewer" Murari Lal) had read in the New Scientist magazine. The New Scientist article itself was drawn up from a short telephone call with an obscure Indian scientist called Syed Hasnain, who it transpired had absolutely no scientific evidence to support his claim.The report (printed in 1999) had gone unnoticed until 2005, when without the necessary scrutiny, it was used by the WWF as a campigning tool to prove that glaciers were melting. It was then picked up without any scrutiny or peer review by Lal and the IPCC as they prepared their 2007 report.Another faux-pas of the IPCC was Amazon-Gate when the IPCC claimed that up to 40% of the rain forests in the Amazon were at risk from global warming and would likely be replaced by "tropical savannas" if temperatures continued to rise.The scientific-looking report, on which this claim was based, was a non-peer reviewed article for the WWF, by an Australian policy analyst and a freelance journalist for the Guardian newspaper (not even experts let alone scientists!).The IPCC was forced to withdraw it's 2007 prediction that sea levels would rise by 18-59 cm over the course of this century due to "two technical errors" in it's calculations.

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Who is the head of IPCC?

Rajendra PachauriRajendra Pachauri


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What is the fullform of IPcC?

Intergovernmental panel on climate change


What is the full form of IPCC?

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.


When result of ca-ipcc will come?

expected date will be aug 4th


What is full form ipcc in ca?

intergovernmental panel on climate change


Ca- ipcc may 2010 result date?

29th July


How much funding does the IPCC receive from the federal government?

According to Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), the US currently funds the IPCC to the tune of $12.5 million a year (increasing to $13 million in 2012), although this figure is disputed by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) claiming that the IPCC receives $2.3 million in federal funding. However this may be a moot point as, following debate the House of Representatives, on Saturday 19 February 2011, voted 244 to 179 to eliminate funding for the United Nations IPCC.


When will result of ipcc nov 2011be declared?

better if it will never be declared...... lol


What does IPCC stand for?

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeIntergovernmental panel on climate change


Which is the toughest subject in ca-ipcc?

Group 1 Paper 1 and 3 might be the toughest....