by Tokie Laotan

Created on: September 30, 2008

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report has displayed some ambivalence, the fact that the ice-flow issues where dropped from the report, made critics to label the omission as misleading. The researchers of the report did not have enough data to reflect the effects of the ice flow. The facts still remains that the researchers of the IPCC report believe that sea level changes have been exaggerated in past reports. This brings to mind that the real implications surrounding glacier melts have become overcast due to recent observations that glaciers are melting faster than was anticipated. The report infused a number of political and propaganda campaigns, IPCC used science as a defiant, many experts believed that the public will not fully understand the science, that exploitation of knowledge will become the end game. However, the report does have some positive impacts reflected, it emphasis the the risks of climate change, the need to focus on the rising sea levels. The sea level predictions for this century, in fact shows that the level sea increases will outpace the changes in environmental formations.

The implementation of environmental policies have been slow to acknowledge climate crisis, yet clearly hesitant to act as the battle over the Kyoto protocol revealed. The climate change only became an issue when remissions threatened jobs as well as economies while refusing to act on climate levels of CO2 emissions.The demand for developing countries to reduce their CO2 emissions while large developed countries were not restrained and their economies curtailed was besides the point. However, IPCC criticism of the closed process following the announcement of the Third Assessment Report (TAR) stirred controversy. The process and results has been anticipated for a number of years following the other reports.The IPCC set up a review process for the Fourth Assessment Report (FAR) released in 2007. As an IPCC external reviewer, Madhav L Khandekar believes that the IPCC exaggerated adverse impact of global warming on human societies, he goes on to explain in his review that the IPCC downplays possible beneficial impacts. He emphasis that the IPCC researchers throughout their report, there were many issues that adverse impacts were either highlighted or overstated, while the beneficial aspects were downgraded or basically ignored. He also highlighted the fact that changes in climate that only supported their hypothesis.

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