UN climate experts deny secrecy after new leak - AlertNet

Donna Laframboise, a Canadian writer sceptical that climate change will be damaging, published thousands of pages of the draft by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and accused it of withholding information from the public.

"This is foolishly short-sighted," she wrote of the panel, which comprising thousands of climate scientists. "The IPCC needs to be upfront, open, and honest about every single step by which it arrives at its conclusions."

She said that environmental activists, rather than scientists, had been submitting many comments to lobby authors.

Twitter / richardabetts: @ClimateOfGavin Exactly. Some ...

@ClimateOfGavin Exactly. Some people seem to specifically want to avoid helping improve #IPCC report, so they can try to find fault later.

Twitter / AndrewOrlowski: But @richardabetts - Christy ...

But @richardabetts - Christy and Lindzen dropped out after AR3, presumably with better things to do. What's left at IPCC is self-selecting.