One of the more interesting knock-ons of the opportunistic IPCC reliance on WWF and similar “authorities” is that it may compromise the ability of the U.S. EPA to argue that IPCC peer review meets the statutory standards required of EPA peer review.
In this respect, I refer to the Climate Audit submission to EPA last June, which considered this specific issue in considerable detail. See
submission here, covering post
here and first post on the topic
here.
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