this is happening so there's been a number of reports talking about how the various elements of the i.p.c.c. some summaries for policymakers have been diluted so that it doesn't apply to the large body of technical reports which is like goes into thousands of pages that's not what we're talking about here what we're talking about is the summary documents which are presented to policymakers and that's supposed to obviously determine the policies that have been decided and you know what we need to mitigate climate change etc the problem is that the policymakers themselves appear to be actually influencing what they're being presented. in those summaries so what we're what's been happening yeah and this goes across the aisle and there's been a lot of debate about the mitigation reports but less attention has been paid to the out short scientific assessments for the impacts of climate change so that the article that i wrote was looking at information that i got from a guy called david was or who was a previously a review of the i.p.c.c. in two thousand and seven and this time around he had cont

at information that i got from a guy called david was stuart who was a previously a review of the i.p.c.c. in two thousand and seven and this time around he had contact with a number of leading scientists who were involved in that process where the working groups work lies in with policy makers to finalize the summary and in that he said . he gave quite a lot of detail i see in how a number of leading most but very powerful countries who happen to be the countries that were most responsible for greenhouse gases and he said this with the united states china saudi arabia interestingly he said saudi arabia actually led to the kind of push to really water down the summaries and he said that what they were trying to do was dilute the extent to which the impacts of climate change were seemed to be. leading to drastic consequences in terms of the need for greenhouse gas reductions so that was the upshot and they actually asked for certain diagrams to be removed and they called for certain diagrams which were projecting emissions to the missions trajectory over the last over the next couple of de