A major report on climate change being compiled by the United Nation's
climate science panel was on Friday leaked online in what appeared to be
an attempt by a climate sceptic to discredit the panel.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the full draft
of its Fifth Assessment Report, which is not set for official
publication until next September, had been published online by one of
800 experts contributing to the report.
The climate body did not identify the culprit, but a climate sceptic
named Alec Rawls announced in a blog posting that he had posted the
report in what appeared to be a bid to discredit it.
The IPCC is a favoured target for sceptics, who stirred a scandal in the
run up to a UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009 by pointing out
flaws in the panel's landmark Fourth Assessment Report.
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