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The '''Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change''' (IPCC) is the United Nations body established in 1988 to assess the science related to climate change. It produces comprehensive Assessment Reports that synthesize global climate research and serve as the primary scientific basis for international climate policy. The IPCC does not conduct original research; it evaluates peer-reviewed literature and produces consensus summaries that are negotiated line-by-line by member governments.

The IPCC's work is built on the foundation of [[Earth system science]] and [[Earth System Model|Earth System Models]], which provide the projections of future climate states under different [[Emissions Scenarios|emissions scenarios]]. The panel's findings — that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet, that impacts are already observable, and that rapid emissions reductions are required to limit warming — are among the most thoroughly reviewed scientific conclusions in history.

Yet the IPCC's consensus process has a structural bias toward conservatism. By requiring unanimous government approval of summary language, the process systematically downplays tail risks, low-probability high-impact scenarios, and [[Cascading Tipping Points|cascading tipping points]] that cannot be modeled with confidence. The result is a body of work that is scientifically rigorous but politically diluted — accurate in what it says, but systematically silent on what it cannot say with certainty. This is not a flaw in the science. It is a flaw in the interface between science and governance.

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