A confidential draft of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been posted on the internet by U.S. officials, months before its scheduled publish date. According to the Guardian, it's an attempt to water down the impact of the final report when it is released next year.
Or is it an attempt to show the true facts prior to the "official" administration report.
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...Others say the move could be a deliberate attempt to reduce the impact of the final report. The Bush administration has been critical of the IPCC and its conclusions, which form the basis for international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the Kyoto protocol. The new report will underpin negotiations to extend the protocol beyond 2012.
...The draft report reflects a debate that has moved on from whether man-made climate change is real to what the effects could be. It says human activity since the industrial revolution is "very likely" to be warming the planet and "more likely than not" to be behind an observed increase in the intensity of tropical cyclones.
It was posted on the web by the US Climate Change Science Programme, a government office that coordinates global warming research, which said it made the report available for "expert comment" to help frame its official response. Its website says participants should not quote or redistribute the document, which can be accessed with a password provided automatically to anyone who sends an email.