New Scientist: THE latest scientific report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published last week, was received almost with a shrug. There were no real showstoppers (no surprise, as most of the report had been leaked in advance). Minds were not changed. Battle lines did not budge. Denialists tried to rubbish the report but found themselves preaching only to the converted.
Perhaps the juiciest morsel was the IPCC's acceptance that warming has slowed since 1998 (see "Climate report: Lull in...