Having been caught using just one high wind year to persuade British parliamentarians to donkey-nod through an insane rush to Net Zero in 2019, interest is growing in some of the other stunts pulled by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) to promote the green collectivist agenda. In 2020, the CCC used a supposed finding of the Citizen Climate Assembly to promote to Parliament the idea – found in its Sixth Carbon Budget – that meat and dairy consumption should be cut by up to 40%. In fact only a third of the 108-strong assembly discussed the matter, and only 10 people expressed priority support for such severe reductions in the diet. The assembly was largely curated by the CCC, while £200,000 of funding for the event organiser was supplied by the European Climate Foundation, a green activist operation drawing heavy financial support from Extinction Rebellion funder Sir Christopher Hohn.
The CCC’s Sixth Carbon Budget identified the drastic legal pathways the U.K. Government must follow to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide during the years 2033 to 2037. Everything must go it seems in the unreal world of Net Zero, despite the fact that human activity – and survival – depends on exploiting the Earth’s natural resources. “The experience of the U.K. Climate Assembly shows that if people understand what is needed and why, if they have options and can be involved in the decision-making process, they will support the transition to Net Zero,” states the CCC.
The investigative journalist Ben Pile broke the meat story and wondered at the time how just 10 individuals can be used to somehow represent the wishes of 66 million people. Needless to say, poodle media took the bone with Roger Harrabin of the BBC writing that members thought politicians should encourage people to eat up to 40% less meat.
The assembly was set up by a number of Parliamentary committees to include 108 members of the public invited for six weekend sessions around the time of the first Covid lockdown in 2020. Three were held in Birmingham and three by Zoom. The Chief Executive of the CCC, Chris Stark, was one of the four main organisers and one of the four ‘Expert Leads’. The leads chose the speakers who addressed the gathering. What transpired, of course, was 12 days of relentless eco propagandising. Just 35 members of the Assembly discussed the ‘what we eat’ issue and, noted Pile, listened to one speaker who said the following:
We know that red and processed meat is associated with a number of health conditions so it’s linked to heart disease, it’s linked to strokes, it’s linked to particular types of cancer like bowel cancer, it is also linked to diabetes. Whereas on the other hand, eating fruit and vegetables is linked to prevention of all these conditions, so the more fruit and vegetables you eat, you are less likely to suffer from those diseases.
Alas, when it came to a vote on eight options, only 29% of the group, or 10 members, chose eating less meat as a priority. In fact it was the second least popular option.
Mike Thompson was the Chief Economist of the CCC and the lead author of its Sixth Carbon Budget. He put a slightly different spin on the ball:
The Climate Change Assembly said it would be happy with a 20-40% reduction in meat consumption. We’ve looked really carefully at the Climate Assembly recommendations and actually we were quite engaged in the process as well. If you take the time to guide people through this, to explain why the changes are needed, to explain the sorts of things that need to happen, they’re really supportive of action, and actually we were really surprised how supportive they were of late of the things we were thinking of already.
Quite what planet people like Thompson operate on is not clear, but a good case can be made that extreme eco activists like him, indeed anyone associated with the Climate Change Committee, should not be allowed anywhere near the machinery of public policy and Government. The agenda of Net Zero, with its capacity to wreak havoc on economic and social lifestyles, is far too important to be left to public sector extremists and lazy Parliamentarians content to follow a Net Zero narrated plan. The push to 100% Net Zero was rushed through with barely an hour’s debate in the House of Commons in 2019, with MPs relying on advice from the CCC that there would be just seven days a year when wind turbines produced less than 10% of their potential electricity output. This of course helped play down the enormous cost of storage required for intermittent wind and solar power. Net Zero Watch has noted not seven, but 30 such days in 2020, 33 in 2019 and 56 in 2018.
Always in the background, as we have reported in the Daily Sceptic on numerous occasions, is the seemingly unlimited supply of elite billionaire money to buy influence with politicians, media and academia. Although set up by Parliament and curated by the CCC, the billionaire money was still in evidence at the Climate Assembly with £200,000 given specifically to Involve, the event organiser. Step forward with the cash, the European Climate Foundation whose other good works include backing for the Labour Climate and Environment Forum and the Conservative Environment Network. This latter operation runs a caucus composed of around half the backbench MPs of the ruling Conservative party, dedicated, it is noted, to supporting Net Zero ‘champions’.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Good work, gve that man an award.
I suspect he was on the tax payer teet before the last election.
The stabbing of three girls in Southport last July. Is that all it was, really?
Not the brutal murder of 3 young innocent children?
It’s almost like they are trying to erase this truly horrific event.
Its an outrage!
The Telegraph journalist may not have intended to downplay the significance and seriousness of this horrific event, but the seemingly casual glossing over of those awful murders seems to suggest it was an insignificant event.
I truly feel for the parents of those children, its almost like society has forgotten about their tragic loss. Or is being forced to forget!
Well I’ll be closely watching proceedings and anything being reported online 20th Jan> regarding the mass child-killer because I couldn’t give a toss about a U.S President’s inauguration, which is only a one day event anyway. These trials will last weeks. Plus it’s the trial of that other migrant who stabbed the soldier and that Labour councilor’s trial too.
Just another migrant killing another white person here. How many’s that now? Aren’t there any white on white killings any more? It doesn’t feel like it. God knows how many of these happen daily and we’re not aware of them. The culprit won’t be deported because ‘human rights’;
”A man has been charged with murder following a fatal stabbing in Luton.
Abdul Kasim, 25, was charged on Monday with the murder of 63-year-old Martin Sullivan, who died after being injured at an address in Highbury Road.
Mr Sullivan was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to hospital by emergency services.
His daughter paid tribute to him, saying: “My dad was a very loving and caring person who would help anyone.
“He will be very much missed by all his friends and family.
“He’ll never be forgotten.”
Kasim, of Perrysfield Road, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, has been remanded into custody ahead of a hearing at Luton Crown Court on Thursday.”
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2025-01-14/man-charged-with-murder-as-daughter-pays-tribute-to-loving-stab-victim
I’m not suggesting the brutal murders of Jo Cox and David Amess (MPs) are any less serious than any other murder, but we don’t try and eliminate their murders from collective memory!
How has the Country become a nation, via its government, who seems to not care about what happens to children, and seemingly specifically white girls?
I logged back in to say something similar but you beat me to it.
No. Eleven girls and two adults were stabbed. Three of the children were stabbed to death.Murdered.
And when people complain on social media they’re the bad guys?
Lord Hermer is evil. Sack him.
And what about all the other 8 little girls and their two adult defenders, who were all hospitalised in critical condition, some with “life-changing injuries”? They must feel entirely forgotten by the world.
Starmer is completely inept and has no political nouce. He is a legalistic automaton, devoid of common sense. He is a rules based robot, who prefers bad outcomes, so long as they are legal outcomes. Yet, as has been shown, the advice he has received over the Chagos islands, is wrong.
Starmer is stuck in an error loop, and he doesn’t know how to get out of it. He needs to be re-booted and re-programed.
Or replaced – by an actual functioning robot?
Hahaha! Good idea!
It could hardly do a worse job then Two Tier Not Here Again Kier.
Clueless, again, from Will Jones.
‘… many of these bizarre decisions …’?
Deliberate, premeditated, planned, and all intended to tear down, harm, spoil the fabric of the UK.
Why does Jones think Starmer wants to be popular with those Labour hates? Just follow the Democrat playbook and their next steps are blindingly obvious.
By focusing his guns on the wrong target, Jones wastes time and opportunity to fight Labour.
May I encourage fellow blogees to be more discerning.
Starmer seems to want Labour to be even worse than the Democrats under Biden, seems like its working already!
Total destruction of everything worthwhile.
What a surprise, early life check comfirmed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hermer,_Baron_Hermer#Early_life,_family_and_education
NO! Will Jones is very far from being “clueless”— your comment is unjust and stupid.
Why don’t you set up your own website and show us all how much better you can do it?
Excellent documentary brought to my attention by UK Column. Slaughtered on Suspicion about the 2001 Foot & Mouth mass cull that is thought to have culled 11 million animals and around 80% of the farms were free of the disease, but were culled anyway. I played a part disinfecting and, at the time, thought it of a 1940 moment. I had no internet then. I also remember clubbing in Hereford and having to close my window when driving home through the Herefordshire countryside because of the stench of the burning carcases.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/insight-slaughtered-on-suspicion
I have posted links to this excellent documentary a few times but it is always worth repeating.
And guess who was behind the flawed model used to slaughter innocent animals.
That would be Ferguson pants down. Also goes to show what a criminal Blair was before the WMDs PsyOp.
Sir Two-Tier aided and abetted by Lord Hermetic. Knight and Peer of the Realm complicit in lawyerly insider trading. Someone pass the nosegay and smelling salts asap, the parliamentary drains are up to mischief again.
Well done to Will Jones and the DS for drawing attention to this Extreme Leftist man Two Tier chose as Attorney General, who has just committed “Gross Judicial Overreach” by warning the entire world that they are subject to the same rules as jurors on the case of the Southport Stabber!!! It reminds me of the Marxist Common Purpose motto “Go Beyond Authority”. He has actually threatened ALL SOCIAL MEDIA USERS with CONTEMPT OF COURT charges !!! Who the blazes does he think he is?
Warning issued about commenting on trial of alleged Southport attacker
“It said: “While proceedings are active, the Attorney General is reminding editors, publishers and SOCIAL MEDIA USERS that fair and accurate reporting of legal proceedings held in public in good faith is permitted”.
“However, you may be at risk of being in contempt of court if you publish material or comment online that is inaccurate, unfair or involves discussion or commentary which could influence the jury’s deliberations.” WHAT??????
Some apt comments from the public:
— “I think the attorney General has gone a bit to far in their suppression of freedom of speech when they said “unfair or involves discussion or commentary which could influence the jury’s deliberations”.
I think the Attorney General needs to refresh themselves with The Juries Act 1974 and subsequent case law establish strict rules for jury conduct.
Its not for the public to be held accountable to these rules its for the Jury to be held accountable to these rules.”
— “If you don’t want the Jury to be swayed you put the few up in a hotel without access to the news and the like, and the many can have the freedom of speech granted to us without fear of reprisal. The Constitution is the corner stone of Law.”
— “I maybe terribly wrong, but I always thought, certainly in my day. A JURY remained in a hotel away from the public during a murder case, with no access to the outside world.?? I have never known such a strong statement to have ever been made like this before. Especially having lived through some of the most infamous murders of the 20th century.”
—“Judge needs to wind his neck in. He controls his court room, not the country.”
Disgusting.
I expect his fees are paid by tax payers?
Two-Tier isn’t a politician. He’s a Human Rights Lawyer. This is the manifestation of Mandelson’s “the age of democracy is over” and Blair’s Constitutional Wrecking Ball.
We’ll get one last chance to overturn the imposition of governance by Human Rights Lawyers at the next General Election.
We’d better take it. Whether you support everything Reform proposes is irrelevant …. first we need to restore democracy.
Then we need to start arguing about what we do with it.
Presumably consent has been given. Its a case of wrecking themselves. They are a wreck.
Some of you may remember the Monty Python sketch, ‘Philosopher’s Football Match’, from the early 1970s. All the philosophers on the pitch are so self absorbed and tied in knots with ‘logical’ reasoning that they fail to understand that the point of the game is to score a goal. Eventually, one of the players has a ‘Eureka’ moment and scores but the other argue that it has not really happened. Worth watching again, as it is readily available online. It is a good allegory for Britain today.