Scientists, students, Sierra Club call on UNC to drop coal. With the UNC co-generation plant as a backdrop, climate change researcher James Hansen joined students, university scientists and members of the Sierra Club’s Coal Free Campus campaign to ask the university to end the use of coal at the plant. [News Source]

Mistakes in climate report fuel skepticism. Scientists say small errors do not change the reality of global warming; but errors have given traction to warming deniers. [News Source]

UN official says climate change science robust despite errors in panel report. Yvo de Boer acknowledged that mistakes were made in the 2007 IPCC report, but argued that the science behind global warming was robust and that the report itself was helping countries combat it. [News Source]

UN climate chief defends under-fire Pachauri. The United Nations' top climate official on Thursday backed leading global warming scientist Rajendra Pachauri, saying he should ignore calls to resign over errors in a key 2007 report. [News Source]

UN climate chief defends scientist. Yvo de Boer, the United Nation’s top climate change official, on Thursday leapt to the defence of the embattled UN climate change scientist Rajendra Pachauri, saying it would be “senseless” for him to resign. [News Source]

Environmental groups split over calls for IPCC boss to resign. International environment and development groups have given conflicting opinions over whether Rajendra Pachauri should resign over criticism of his handling of a false claim about melting glaciers in the panel's landmark 2007 report. [News Source]

Utah lawmaker Mike Noel targets global warming lawsuits. A Utah legislator who is one of the most ardent critics of global warming wants to keep the judiciary out of the political debate and protect industry from what he says are frivolous lawsuits. [News Source]

Climate skeptics call on BYU, scientists, to say they’re sorry. Brigham Young University and a group of its earth scientists ought to apologize to a state lawmaker and a climate-change contrarian invited to Utah as an expert witness last year, says the Utah Farm Bureau. [News Source]

Utah legislative panel OKs resolution on climate change. Citing cataclysmic impacts to the economy, a legislative committee Thursday threw its support behind a resolution urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to halt its carbon-dioxide reduction policies. [News Source]

Pachauri insists science behind global warming remains ‘totally valid’ (Calcutta News) New Delhi, Feb 5: UN Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri has insisted that the science behind global warming remains valid, despite recent embarrassing mistakes which has threatened to damage the organization's credibility. [News Source]

UN climate change chief under fire (Belfast Telegraph) A high-profile error in an international report on climate change does not undermine the scientific case for man-made global warming, the head of the United Nations' panel on the issue has insisted. Related Stories Fears over Google digital book deal Don't stop stimulus, urges Darling Don't stop stimulus, urges Alistair Darling and Timothy Geithner Jackson doctor to hand himself in Shackleton's ... [News Source]