Original sentence: " (John Maddox, a former editor of the journal Nature, quoted by David Adam in The Guardian, 28 January 2005).At the same time, some of the scientists whose work is summarized in these reports have accused the IPCC of bias.IPCC reports are often cited   as supporting material.LobbyWatch has criticized Stott, saying that "Stott does not appear to have had a single paper published in a scientific journal in the fields in which he most frequently applies this 'expertise', e.Meteorologist and professor Richard Lindzen also has said that "Picking holes in the IPCC is crucial.The notion that if you’re ignorant of something and somebody comes up with a wrong answer, and you have to accept that because you don’t have another wrong answer to offer is like faith healing, it’s like quackery in medicine – if somebody says you should take jelly beans for cancer and you say that’s stupid, and he says, well can you suggest something else and you say, no, does that mean you have to go with jelly beans.The reports have been influential in forming national and international responses to climate change.With regard to the temperature cuve Stott remarks that "in 1200AD Europe was 2 degrees centigrade [Celsius] warmer that it is today"
Edited sentence: " (John Maddox, a former highly-respected editor of the journal Nature, quoted by David Adam in The Guardian, 28 January 2005).At the same time, a few of the scientists whose work is summarized in these reports have accused the IPCC of bias.In general the expertise of Stott is dubious: "Stott does not appear to have had a single paper published in a scientific journal in the fields in which he most frequently applies this 'expertise', e.The fact that the IPCC reports are widely cited   as supporting material is ample evidence of the respect they have earned within the climate science community.The reports have been highly influential in forming national and international responses to climate change; they are the baseline for the debate.With regard to the temperature cuve Stott remarks that "in 1200AD Europe was 2 degrees centigrade [Celsius] warmer that it is today", a statement which is not supported by any version of the temperature record of the past 1000 years