For immediate release: August 30, 2010
Contact: Giselle Barry, 202-567-6800, press@climateprotect.org

Washington, D.C. ― Today, the InterAcademy Council, an organization of the world’s science academies, issued a report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report affirmed that the Panel overall is successful in their work and called for a series of management adjustments as the IPCC works on future assessments on climate change science. It follows a July 5 report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, which upheld the conclusions in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on climate change. Alliance President and CEO Maggie L. Fox issued the following statement:

“Previous independent reviews have upheld the IPCC’s scientific conclusions that human activities are changing our climate. The evidence of climate change is clear and overwhelming — despite desperate attempts by professional deniers and paid skeptics to discredit climate scientists and academic institutions. The recommendations of this report to strengthen the management structure of the IPCC will only improve the scientific community’s ability to communicate with the public about the dangerous reality of climate change. The scientific evidence that the climate crisis is real and urgent remains clear and affirmed. Our task now is to cut the greenhouse gas pollution causing this crisis and transition to a 21st century clean energy economy. Our leaders must adopt and support sound, cost-effective policies to make a transition to clean, renewable energy — and we have no time to lose.”