How Saudi Oil Scientists Ended up Working on the World’s Most Important Climate Reports
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At least a dozen leading authors of the IPCC, dependent on the UN, are employed or linked to Saudi Aramco, Saudi institutions and other interests in the oil and gas sector.The Saudi oil company Aramco shoots its profits 25.1% due to the rise in crude oil On its first day as an expert author in the world's most important climate reports, Professor Julia Steinberger knew no one, so she sat at the table of a stranger for breakfast. “Hi, I’m Julia. …
Employees of Saudi Arabia's national oil company are among the editors of the next Giec report, revealing an investigation of "Humanity" and the "Guardian".
A dozen researchers related to Saudi Arabia or its oil are among the 664 authors of the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Giec), which reveals an international investigation of journalists. Experts urge the UN scientific body to remove the oil industry from its ranks by reviewing its policy of conflict of interest.
Dozens of climate researchers at the World Climate Council (IPCC) have contacts with the oil and gas industry. Especially the authors with connections to the Saudi oil giant Aramco raise questions.
Eleven researchers participating in Giec Group 3 — in charge of climate change mitigation — have conflicts of interest related to Saudi Arabia and Saudi oil company Aramco. This is what reveals an investigation by Humanity, Guardian and three other European media outlets, published on Monday 21 September. For example, Mustafa Babiker has been an employee of Saudi Aramco since 2006. Diego Armando Moya-Pinta, he, since 2022. Or five of these resea…
Anyway, so the Saudis and the IPCC - Tim Worstall
Apparently the IPCC has some Saudis in it. Which is terrible, you now, because they might actually know something about the oil business. “Conflict of interest rules aren’t an accusation that someone has done something wrong,” said Tzeporah Berman, chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. “They exist to protect an institution’s integrity by ensuring… Read More »Anyway, so the Saudis and the IPCC The post Anyway, so the Saudis and the I…
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