Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientists, as part of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, have concluded a report that climate change is "almost certainly manmade" and that "a large proportion of fossil fuel reserves will have to stay in the ground to avoid dangerous warming of 5C or more."
The IPCC has been subject to criticism from non believers and politicians for years, including climate-sceptic Lord Lawson, citing their "flawed" reporting systems, however The Guardian states in a report that "the Energy and Climate Change Committee found that the IPCC's processes were “robust” and their conclusions should be accepted by policymakers."
Tim Yeo, chair of the committee, said: “The importance of the conclusions of IPCC reports in terms of their policy implications understandably places the IPCC under a lot of scrutiny. Some of the criticism directed toward the IPCC has been from people who for various political or economic reasons do not like its conclusions, but we decided to take a closer look at whether the scientists involved in the IPCC could be doing more to address genuine concerns.”
To add confusion to the subject of trustworthy reports and action plans, Yeo has said there was no scientific basis for reducing the UK’s carbon budgets, something many have urged the Government to do, yet "policymakers in the UK and around the world must now act on the IPCC’s warning and work to agree a binding global climate deal in 2015 to ensure temperature rises do not exceed a point that could dangerously destabilise the climate."
