In other Times of London news, the UK government’s top environmental scientist, the beleaguered Prof. Robert Watson, admits that all the IPCC errors thus far uncovered have served to exaggerate warming.

His solution to the crisis of confidence in the IPCC? Call in Al Gore! (Seriously.)

Professor Watson has held discussions with Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, about creating a new climate research group to supplement the work of the IPCC and to help restore the credibility of climate science.
He said that the scheme to create what he called a “Wikipedia for climate change” was at an early stage but the intention was to establish an online network of climate science research available to anyone with access to the internet and subject to permanent peer review by other scientists.
He said that the project would allow scientists to “synthesise all of the observational record in real-time, not every 5-7 years like the IPCC”.
He rejected concerns that the project would undermine the IPCC’s authority. “It would have to be done so it was complimentary [sic] and not a challenge to the IPCC,” he said.
A spokesman for Mr Gore’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, declined to comment on the project.

As Luboš Motl notes, Gore stamped out another “warming is worse than we thought” piece on Friday.

UPDATE: Reader Rex P. notes a telling typo:

Notice the spelling of “complimentary” in the London Times article. Yes, this is probably an editing oversight. But it sure fits.