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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703510204575086303055077096\nClimate Panel Vows New Review\nBy Jeffrey Ball\nFeb. 24, 2010 12:01 am ET\nThe world's leading organization on climate change says it is working on a strategy to better police the experts who produce its high-profile reports, to try to ensure they adhere to rigorous scientific standards.\nThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change needs to \"leave no stone unturned to come up with a set of measures so this can be ensured,\" Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations-sponsored organization, said.\nSeparately, the Met Office, a U.K. agency that does prominent weather and climate research, said it was proposing a new effort to improve temperature measurement.\nThe move by Mr. Pachauri and other IPCC leaders to step up oversight and enforcement of the panel's existing policies follows a string of revelations that have prompted criticism of the organization, which won a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its report that year concluding that climate change is \"unequivocal\" and is \"very likely\" caused by human activity.\n\"We certainly don't feel comfortable with the loss of even one iota of trust,\" Mr. Pachauri said. \"We are grappling with this issue and we'll come up with some measures.\"\nChief among the revelations was that the IPCC's 2007 report, which runs to about 3,000 pages, erroneously projected that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.\n\"That's a classic case that should have got caught,\" Mr. Pachauri said. \"That one single instance is enough of a lesson that we do something to make sure it doesn't recur.\"\nAs the IPCC moves forward with its review, the Met Office, a U.K. government meteorological agency and research center, announced a new planned effort to improve the measurement of the earth's temperatures—data it said is necessary to \"strengthen decisions on adapting to climate change.\"\nThe Met Office, whose research is often cited by the IPCC, said in a statement that a more-robust set of data on surface temperatures around the globe will provide a clearer picture of how the planet's climate is changing.\nGovernment officials in many countries have asked for detailed information as they mull whether, and how, to implement policies designed to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that the IPCC says are contributing to climate change.\nMuch of climate science focuses on making broad projections about how increased greenhouse-gas emissions might change the global average temperature.\nBut even as political bids to curb emissions stumble—a big U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen in December ended without agreement on mandatory steps—policy makers want to better understand how climate change might affect temperature extremes and particular regions. That, the Met Office said, will require more-granular temperature data.\nThe new effort \"will augment, not replace,\" current temperature data, the Met Office said. It will provide more-frequent temperature readings. And the information will be \"fully peer reviewed and open to scrutiny,\" the Met Office noted.\nThe transparency of climate-science data has come into question in the wake of the release late last year of more than 1,000 emails from the computers of another U.K. scientific center, the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.\nThose emails appeared to show scientists there trying to squelch the views of others who questioned their research pointing to a significant human influence on the climate. The university has launched an investigation.\nThe changes at the IPCC will focus less on rolling out new policies than on enforcing those already in effect, Mr. Pachauri said.\nAmong them: extensive checks on the research that is to be cited in IPCC reports.\nIn addition, some IPCC leaders said, the organization needs better procedures to correct any errors in its reports once they are found.\n\"I hope we'll be able to do something by which we can infuse confidence in our audience and assure them that the IPCC takes this issue very seriously,\" Mr. Pachauri said.\nWrite to Jeffrey Ball at jeffrey.ball@wsj.com\nBooking.com:\nSign up your email to get a free 10% off Booking.com coupon\nHotwire:\nFree $10 off Hotwire promo code with newsletter sign up\nExpedia:\nExpedia promo code - 5% off weekly rentals with Dollar"