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History and Science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Twenty-fourth online page economist explaining how deniers were invited into the process and how that made the final conclusions even stronger. Dialogue: Well, everything that humans do has to do with the economy, and that’s certainly true of climate change. Flooding cities or failing agriculture certainly cost money and disrupted commerce, and those climate skeptics you mentioned, many of them worried stopping climate change would cost them money. But how did we deal with people that were skeptical about climate change, that was your question. Well, if they had expertise, we invited them into the process. Some were inside the IPCC anyway with major oil producing nations and industry groups as observers. One time a prominent climate change denying scientist was even asked to be a lead author on an IPCC report. If they’d had solid scientific evidence it would have changed the reports. But there had been such rigorous review of so many lines of evidence, all pointing to the same conclusions, that… Well, it wasn’t always easy. But it made the reports better. Having them involved made us think harder about what the right answers were.

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October 1, 2020February 28, 2021

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