From The WSJ's Morning Brief (note: this is not the permanent link, I can never find them for the WSJ columnists without a significant use of my labor resource*):
An international panel of experts this morning finally reached agreement on the dire and globe-sweeping effects of global warming, but not before government participants managed to soften some of the language, to the exasperation of contributing scientists.
At midday, hours after the promised deadline, a final text of the report was still unavailable at the Brussels discussion site, and Le Monde reports overnight negotiation on the language had gone line by line among the government delegations. ... Several scientists objected to government delegates' editing of the final draft, and some said they would never take part in the process again, the AP reports. While the first IPCC chapter, released in February, concluded there is a 90% probability that the burning of fossil fuels and other activities contribute to global warming, as Nature explains, today's report offers the most extensive international effort yet to define the effects. And that's where the IPCC scientists were clashing with governments, specifically China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the U.S., the Financial Times and other media reported.
You get the links to the news sources at the WSJ link above.
*Note: It is great that the WSJ sends these out via email, for free, but how about an RSS feed? I've become addicted to my Google RSS reader. I just added the MLB Atlanta Braves feed this morning -- those guys are kicking A. And let me be the first to report on env-econ.net that Billy Gillispie will be announced today at 12:45 as UK's new basketball coach. I'll be able to get back to work after 12:45 today after a 24-7 exhaustive search of the UK basketball coach search news.
