The underemployed in the green blogosphere have been kicking up a minor fuss in recent days over the decision of Google to hold a fundraiser for sceptic senator Jim Inhofe. Interestingly, the pressure on Google has now been taken up by none other than IPCC vice chairman Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, who tweeted as follows.
.@EricSchmidt Are you OK with @Google, your company, funding climate #skeptics? http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2257691 @climatecentral @revkin
I think this fairly conclusively kills the idea that the IPCC is a body that tries to make an even handed assessment of the global warming question.