by Will Jones, Daily Sceptic:

Scientists at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have demanded the power to set global climate policy as they despair at the slow pace of climate action. The Guardian has the story.

Five lead authors of IPCC reports told the Guardian that scientists should be given the right to make policy prescriptions and, potentially, to oversee their implementation by the 195 states signed up to the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC).

Their call came after it emerged that the United Arab Emirates had been planning to use its position as COP28 host to strike oil and gas deals .