A landmark and largest ever UN climate summit opened in Copenhagen on Monday, with the head of the UN’s Nobel winning panel of environmental scientists accusing vested quarters of not being ready to face the reality of threats of wide-ranging nature of changes in climate.
Attacking the so-called ‘climategate’ affair as a bid to undermine the capability of his organisation, R K Pachauri said at the opening ceremony that those who had hacked into the emails of top climate scientists were out to discredit the scientific assessment made of threats to the climate. But the climategate affair rocked the conference, with some countries calling for an international probe into the affair, especially accusations that scientists had distorted data to dramatise the threat of global warming.