

The IPCC should establish an Executive Committee to act on its behalf between Plenary sessions.


With regards to handling errors in IPCC reports, the InterAcademy Council Review (IAC) of the IPCC made the following recommendation: Gabi Hegerl, joint coordinating lead author of Chapter 9, emailed me late yesterday afternoon to say that she had brought my letter to the attention of the WG1 AR5 Co-Chairs to initiate the appropriate handling of the alleged error, and that it will be dealt with in accordance with the recently approved “IPCC Protocol for Addressing Possible Errors in IPCC Assessment Reports, Synthesis Reports, Special Reports or Methodology Reports. I have some news to report on a response to the letter forming this post from the IPCC authors. Nic Lewis sent me the following message in an email:
