Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change

The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is a project of climate change skeptics headed by Fred Singer. Other participants in the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change include Christopher Monckton and Patrick J. Michaels.

The NIPCC was organized after a workshop in Vienna in April 2007. The panel published a report titled "Nature, Not Human Activity Rules the Climate" in February-March 2008 during the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change organized by the Heartland Institute in New York. The report was written to allegedly counter the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a scientific panel established in 1988 by the United Nations to evaluate the risk of climate change. The IPCC released a report in 2007, entitled Climate Change 2007 arguing "much of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic GHG (greenhouse gas) concentrations."

The title page of the NIPCC's report calls it "summary fo policymakers" but the document, in fact, appears to be the report itself.

The report states that "another reason for the IPCC's unreliability is the naive acceptance by policymakers of 'peer reviewed' literature as necessarily authoritative."

There is no indication that this manuscript will have an open review by NIPCC appointed expert reviewers.

Singer, Monckton, and Michaels all have ties to the oil industry.

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