Read whole piece in The Star.
In his news conference on the subject UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said: "We need to act based on the best possible science. We need to ensure full transparency, accuracy and objectivity, and minimize the potential for any errors going forward...We must be clear about what we know and also about where there is uncertainty. We must communicate transparently and debate intelligently."
Yet the Secretary General has yet to even acknowledge the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Challenge asking the UN to share the observational evidence supporting their claims that "The earth's climate systems are warming above and beyond natural variability", to quote Ban in his remarks to the media today. This Challenge was submitted to the UN as an open letter and has now been signed by 166 leading climate experts from many countries.
Similarly, the Secretary General never responded to the open letter sent to him two years earlier, signed by more than 100 specialists from around the world, many of whom are leading figures in their fields, from climate science to economics to biology which concluded "Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems."