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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world's science
academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Work will be co-ordinated by the Inter-Academy Council, which brings together bodies such as the UK's Royal Society. The IPCC has been under pressure over small errors in its last major assessment of climate science in 2007. More and video at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8561004.stm |
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal IIRC**)
comes to mind. JGD ** Actually, thought that I'd better look it up. Answers.com says: 'Juvenal (died c. 127), or Decimus Junius Juvenalis, was the greatest of the Roman satirists. His bitter and rhetorical denunciations of Roman society, presented in a series of vivid pictures of Roman life, inspired all later satirists.' |
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On 10 Mar, 20:48, prodata wrote:
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal IIRC**) comes to mind. Me too neither. I thought it was bad enough them using BBC scientists but UN ones. Good grief! |
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