Dutch review: IPCC report singles out only negative impacts of climate change

 IPCC report singles out only negative impacts of climate change  In its Monday-released review of the landmark 2007 report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said that it supports the IPCC’s view on the dangers of global warming; but also added that the panel should be show greater transparency in its work.

Despite the strong criticism of the IPCC-issued warning about global warming by climate skeptics, due to some factual errors, the Dutch agency said that a few of the summarized conclusions of the IPCC report do not effectively discuss some “uncertainties” and “positive impacts” of climate change.

The Dutch agency said that though the conclusions of the IPCC mostly “tend to single out the most important negative impacts of climate change,” it has discovered “no error” that may weaken the report’s key findings about the possible future effects of climate change.

The Dutch review of the IPCC’s nearly 3,000-page report – which fetched the Nobel Prize for the UN agency - is the most recent one in a series of investigations pertaining to the agency’s conclusions that climate change is “unequivocal” and it is human activity that “very likely” causes the change.

Most of the investigations were initiated after last-year disclosures about some apparent errors in IPCC report; as well as of attempts by some notable climate scientists of the agency to squash the opinions of climate skeptics who argue that global warming is not a result of human activity.