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Thu 03 Mar 2010UN to review climate science after IPCC errors
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that a group of national science academies would review UN climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged in January its report had exaggerated the pace of Himalayan glaciers melting, and last month said the report also had overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level.
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