The UN selected 13 Spanish scientists to develop its weather report

Thirteen scientists from Spain have been selected for the preparation of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be the key technical document for future decision-making at international level on climate change.

This was announced today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) United Nations, which has been reported that thirteen Spanish form part of the 831 experts participating in the writing of this report, which is scheduled for 2014.

Of the thirteen Spanish scientists, eight have been selected as lead authors, and one of them, Professor, University of Cantabria Iñigo Losada, will be the coordinator of this group and the other four will be as editorial reviewers.

The Environment Ministry has opined in a statement that the selection of the Spanish specialists as authors for the preparation of the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC is a "significant step" in the progressive increase in the participation of Spain in the Assessment and Reporting IPCC activities.

On 15 January the IPCC opened the nomination process by the government, which ended on March 12. In total, the IPCC has received nearly 3,000 nominations and selected 831 experts.

In recent months, the IPCC has been criticized after some calculation errors detected in its latest report. Also, the 'hacking' and filtering emails British scientists at the University of East Anglia gave rise to the so-called 'Climategate'. The scientists were accused of manipulating climate data although research to clarify the facts concluded that they had committed "malpractice."
Three working groups

The Fifth Report will contain the Synthesis Report and the three volumes of the contributions of its three working groups.

Working Group I, "Climate Change 2014: The physical science basis of climate change 'as a leading authority be part Spanish scientists Fidel González-Rouco, Complutense University, Flex-Francisco Reyes, the Catalan Institute for Climate Science , and Prof. Manuel de Castro, University of Castilla-La Mancha.

Your contribution will focus on the chapters on paleoclimatic information, projections and predictability of short-term climate change and climate phenomena and their relevance for the future regional climate.

In Working Group II, "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability", will be as a leading authority Gerardo Benito, Research Professor of National Research Council, Marta Rivera-Ferre, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Anil Markandya, scientific director of the Climate Change Centre of the Basque Country.

These experts will participate in the preparation of chapters on water resources, rural areas and the economics of climate change adaptation.

In addition, three scientists will participate as Reviewers editorial, Professor Joan Grimalt Research Council for Scientific Research work in Chapter Europe and Dr. Ana Iglesias, Polytechnic University of Madrid, will in the chapter on economic aspects climate change adaptation.

Professor José Manuel Moreno, who is currently vice-president of the Bureau of Working Group II of the IPCC will also be editorial reviewer chapter on terrestrial ecosystems.

For its part, the Working Group III, "Climate Change 2014: mitigation of climate change 'will be as a leading authority two Spanish experts, Professor Luisa Cabezas, University of Lleida, in the chapter on building, and Professor Xavier Labandeira, University of Vigo, in the chapter on national policies, subnational and institutions.

Also participate as an editorial reviewer chapter on cross-cutting themes financial and investment, Professor Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga, of the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas.