Report calls for climate body overhaul

Channel 4 News
"The international body which advises leaders on the threat of climate change needs fundamental reform in the wake of a number of embarrassing mistakes, according to an independent review. Tom Clarke reports.Despite calls for a change in leadership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), its chair, Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri, said today that he wouldn't be leaving immediately.The IPCC came under intense criticism in January when a number of errors were found in the body's most recent 2007 report. It stated, wrongly, that Himalayan glaciers could have disappeared completely by 2035.The report also included evidence from news magazines and environmental NGOs that aren't subject to stringent peer-review. Elsewhere the 2007 report also stated that 55 per cent of the Netherlands is below sea level, when the actual figure is 23 per cent. ...."