The Nobel-prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change faces new challenges following a call for an investigation of its conduct and for its chairman to resign amid continuing criticism of the scientific basis of its reports.
Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming called on Thursday for the independent investigation and for Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Geneva-based panel, to resign.
The panel has so far declined to make Dr. Pachauri available for an interview, and officials didn't return phone calls or emails over the weekend seeking further comment. Republicans previously had pushed for him to resign in the fall.
The IPCC, whose vast reports on climate science influence policy makers and undergird global action against global warming, defends its work, saying that its reports "are as solid as careful science can make them," and that it is required to include some literature that hasn't been peer-reviewed and therefore requires "additional care and professional judgment" to evaluate.
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