Science panel to review IPCC

NUSA DUA, Indonesia: An independent board of scientists will be appointed to review the world's top climate science panel, which has been accused of sloppy work, a United Nations climate spokesman said on Friday.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been under fire after it was revealed one of its 2007 reports wrongly included a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2035. The figure should have been 2350.

That mistake and others have fuelled a resurgence of climate scepticism in some quarters but the UN says the fundamental claims of the IPCC "that dangerous climate change is caused by mankind remains unshaken.