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Nature 416, 251 (21 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416251a

Missed US nomination leaves climate post up for grabs

Jim Giles

The future leadership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is up in the air this week, after the United States failed to renominate Robert Watson, the panel's current chair.Watson's six-year term as chair of the panel, which was set up by the United Nations in 1988 to establish an international consensus on climate-change research, ends this year.