(...) provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.
, and is not a political thinktank (even though climate risk deniers and minizers might like to claim it is), is funded at least by 65% by nation states and the UN (44% USA in 2018, 25% by the next inheriting their democratic legitimacy w.r.t to funding any money) and fundamentally deals with something much more narrowly defined, empirically verifiable and graspable than the TUA main causes. It suffers from a lot of the same problems w.r.t representation and democracy as all of science and society does, but it’s not nearly as donor-alignment-driven as the targets of the article
Not really. The IPCC
, and is not a political thinktank (even though climate risk deniers and minizers might like to claim it is), is funded at least by 65% by nation states and the UN (44% USA in 2018, 25% by the next inheriting their democratic legitimacy w.r.t to funding any money) and fundamentally deals with something much more narrowly defined, empirically verifiable and graspable than the TUA main causes. It suffers from a lot of the same problems w.r.t representation and democracy as all of science and society does, but it’s not nearly as donor-alignment-driven as the targets of the article