The Wire

The government funded Climate Commission was axed last week. Late last night it rose from the dead, reincarnated as the community funded Climate Council. The new Climate Council has been formed just in time for the release of the 5th Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The IPCC report has already made headlines, with media outlets grabbing onto the fact that global air temperatures have cooled down over the past 15 years. But the last decade still remains the warmest in the past 150 years, and there has been no slowdown in the melting icecaps or rising sea levels.