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Can a few research errors spoil an entire climate change debate?

The Nobel Prize-winning 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which graphically laid out the coming consequence of climate change from melting glaciers to dying rain forests, is suddenly not worth the value of the paper it’s printed on—if you are to believe critics who have seized on errors in the report to assail the entire science of global warming.

Guests:

Richard Moss, senior staff scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland; Chair of the Task Group on Climate Scenarios for Impact Analysis on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change