Deutsche Welle
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The credibility crisis facing the UN’s climate panel over errors in its 2007 report has cast a shadow on IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri. Now, top researchers in Germany are among those calling for his resignation.
Despite flawed reports and ongoing criticism, Rajendra Pachauri has said he will not step down from his post as head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). UN leaders have also dismissed calls for his resignation.
Yet some members of the scientific community in Germany and abroad have taken a different view. His departure is seen as a potential path toward helping the panel recover from an embarrassing series of faulty assessments, released within the IPCC’s fourth and most recent assessment report.
The IPCC recently admitted it had erred in forecasting that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035, a claim it has since retracted. The mistake was originally published as part of the panel’s report from 2007, which serves as the scientific authority for climate change issues.
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