Helumut Schmidt calls for scientific scrutiny of the IPCC
If they've lost the old guard of the SPD, who's left? In a recent speech the former German Chancellor and Socialist leader said that he was concerned, "by the phenomenon of global warming and its alleged consequences. We know that there have always been naturally occurring ice ages and warm periods; what we don't know is how significant the human-induced contribution to present and future global warming is and will be. The climate policy adopted by many governments is still in its infancy. The publications provided by an international group of scientists (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) have encountered skepticism, [...]