Dutch Environment Minister Jacqueline Cramer says she will no longer tolerate errors by climate researchers. She expressed her anger to Dutch researchers who presented their annual report on the state of the climate on Wednesday.
A number of errors were recently found in several international climate research reports. A new error has been revealed by the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland, which noticed that a 2007 United Nations report wildly overestimated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level. Rather than the 55 percent quoted, the actual figure is 20 percent.
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