Apparently the IPCC wasn’t disturbing enough or focused enough on political advocacy. This according to the organizer of a large scientific meeting on climate change in Copenhagen to be held next month. Here is what The Guardian reports:

Katherine Richardson, a marine biologist at the University of Copenhagen, who is organising next month’s event, said: “This is not a regular scientific conference. This is a deliberate attempt to influence policy.”

The meeting will publish an update to the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Richardson said the IPCC report was “wishy-washy” on issues such as sea level rise. “The IPCC talks of a 40cm sea rise this century. Well, if the consensus now is a rise of a metre or more then they need to know that.”

It is not clear how the meeting will arrive at a new scientific consensus or what climate policies it will try to influence and in what way. My guess is that the message that will come out is that the world needs “action” because the science is “alarming” and “disturbing.” The first keynote speaker listed for the event? Rajendra Pachauri, head of the obsolete IPCC. Perhaps in his keynote talk he will deliver a eulogy for the IPCC.

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