Weekly Science & Technology Report

A new review released Monday says that the U.N.'s climate panel needs to "fundamentally reform" its structure in order to try and prevent the embarrassing errors found in a 2007 study on global warming. A U.N.-requested investigation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) discovered that the Nobel Prize-winning body was successful, despite the "Climategate" scandal that took place before the Copenhagen meeting last fall. The five-month review plans to replace the IPCC's largely part-time structure and stricter guidelines on acceptable source material. It also checked on conflicts of interest by board members and stricter limits on the terms of the chairman. The IPCC released a 938-page study that found evidence that helped build momentum for global action to limit carbon emissions that mostly come from burning coal, gas and oil. However, the IPCC was rocked by a scandal involving leaked emails in 2009, which critics say showed they had skewed data. Part of the study said t