Robertson (2025). Blurred boundaries at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Addendum
Simon Robertson
To whom it may concern,
Post-publication of Robertson (2025). Blurred boundaries at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: the role of integrated assessment models in the science–society contract, published by the Royal Society Open Science, it was brought to my attention that Working Group III AR6 vice-chair Diana Ürge-Vorsatz’s submitted and accepted Expert Review comments, as referred to in my aforementioned article, were rather curiously absent from the publicly published review comments as made available on the IPCC’s website (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/drafts-and-reviews/).
In order to rectify this IPCC ‘processing error’, I have uploaded the spreadsheet file in its original form for the perusal of all interested parties. This file was retrieved from the IPCC's internal Document Management System during my service as a Working Group III Chapter 3 lead author for the AR6 (please see the file's metadata for detail). The spreadsheet file (filename: 03-FOD Final Responses - Chapter 3.xlsx) made available was submitted by Chapter 3 to the IPCC’s WGIII Technical Support Units. The review comments from Ürge-Vorsatz were received by the Chapter 3 author group and were, as indicated in the said spreadsheet, acknowledged by Chapter 3 co-ordinating lead author Roberto Schaeffer (Coppe/UFR) with corresponding "responses" having been provided. Furthermore, I have included, for the purpose of transparency, the IPCC publicly available pdf (Version 1.6) of the selectively altered record for Chapter's 3 FOD review comments retrieved from the IPCC's website on the 9 January 2026 (filename: IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FOD_CommentsResponses_Chapter03.pdf).
Robertson2025_WG3ERC_Addendum.zip contents -
1. filename: README1ST.txt
2. filename: 03-FOD Final Responses - Chapter 3.xlsx
3.filename:IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FOD_CommentsResponses_Chapter03.pdf.
Regards,
Simon
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