[Update: Story has been retracted]: IPCC and Conflicts of Interest: IPCC’s Sawyer ‘spent 30 years as a top official for Greenpeace’
'The spectacle of an IPCC author with a clear conflict of interest writing part of the report and then using that same report in his political advocacy just does not look good. If the IPCC were recommending drug safety standards and an author happened to be a top official at a company benefitting from the recommendations, the issues here would be obvious and unacceptable. The IPCC however plays by different rules'