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Agence France-Presse: Scientists in Bangladesh posed a fresh challenge to the UN's top climate change panel Thursday, saying its doomsday forecasts for the country in the body's landmark 2007 report were overblown. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under fire for errors in the 2007 report, had said a one-metre (three-foot) rise in sea levels would flood 17 percent of Bangladesh and create 20 million refugees by 2050. The warning helped create a widespread consensus that ......
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Study challenges IPCC’s Bangladesh climate predictions
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 22nd, 2010
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