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New Delhi: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) faces fresh criticism after The Sunday Telegraph alleged that it made factual errors and used poor sources of evidence in a report on the potential of wave power.

The newspaper claimed the panel published inaccurate data on the potential of wave power to produce electricity around the world, which was wrongly attributed to the website of a commercial wave-energy company.

It alleged claims made by the IPCC were “based on information in press releases and newsletters.”

“More claims were based on reports produced by environmental pressure groups.”

They are the latest in a series of embarrassing revelations about the IPCC's most recent report, published in 2007.

The Sunday Telegraph revealed last week that the panel had based claims about disappearing mountain ice on anecdotal evidence in a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine.

And on Friday, it emerged that the panel had wrongly reported that more than half of the Netherlands was below sea level because it had failed to check information supplied by a Dutch government agency.

In January, the panel was forced to issue a humiliating retraction after it emerged statements about the melting of Himalayan glaciers were inaccurate.

IPCC chief R K Pachauri has apologized for the errors in the 2007 but has rejected calls for his resignation.

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