Another day and another storm (?) over the IPCC report and how obscure sections of the report are being challenged and proven false - and how this means that all of the science of climate change is wrong.

A mistake about the timing of melting glaciers has snowballed into an unprecedented assault on the credibility of climate science, after revelations that an author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report knew that one passage was wrong but included it anyway.

Todays story is how the IPCC had a claim in the report that was "wrongly linking global warming to a rise in natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods."

Finding these errors and mistake are part of the scientific process.

An Australian lead author of the report, Professor Andy Pitman, also said the mistake did not affect the veracity of the UN body's conclusions. He said that scientists were being subjected to ''an orchestrated campaign that's exactly the same as that was used by the smoking lobby to try and discredit science''.