"nobody outside the IPCC process will see anything until the report is issued, at which point it will be too late to change anything"

- Bishop Hill blog - The IPCC goes closed and opaque

In other words, nobody outside the IPCC process will see anything until the report is issued, at which point it will be too late to change anything. This is a remarkable decision, given the IPCC's need to restore its tarnished reputation and given also the claim, set out in its guiding principles that its assessments are to be transparent. This principle dates right back to 1993 - a simple and obvious rule for a process that could affect everyone on the planet.