The head of the Government’s climate watchdog told officials to “kill” a negative news story with “technical language”, FOI documents reveal. The Telegraph has the story.
Chris Stark, Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), drafted the response when asked for clarity over claims of a “mistake” made by the body.
“How’s this – kill it with some technical language,” he told his team.
The exchange was revealed in a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Telegraph after apparent obfuscation by the climate watchdog over a story published by the Telegraph in January.
It raises questions about the transparency of the committee, which has been pushing the Government to impose more radical Net Zero targets.
Mr. Stark, a senior public servant whose pay package amounts to more than £170,000 per year, is bound by the Nolan Principles of Public Life, which require “openness” and “accountability”.
David Jones, a Tory member of the Commons Public Administration Committee and former Cabinet Minister, said: “Chris Stark steps down as Chief Executive of the CCC next month. Before he goes, he has some serious questions to answer.
“On the face of it, urging colleagues to ‘kill’ a reasonable request for information with technical language looks very much like an attempt at obfuscation.
“Mr. Stark will undoubtedly understand the crucial importance of academic integrity when addressing such an important issue as climate change. A full and immediate explanation is called for.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former Business and Energy Secretary, said: “This seems outrageous – a public servant seeking directly to obfuscate. At least Sir Humphrey did it subtly.”
Mr. Stark’s comments were made in private emails exchanged within the CCC after the Telegraph contacted the body for a response to a planned article in January.
The article reported a claim by Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, who led a recent Royal Society study on future energy supply, that the CCC had privately admitted that it made a “mistake” when it only “looked at a single year” of data showing the number of windy days in a year when it made pronouncements on the extent to which the U.K. could rely on wind and solar farms to meet Net Zero targets.
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“looked at a single year” of data showing the number of windy days in a year when it made pronouncements on the extent to which the U.K. could rely on wind and solar farms to meet Net Zero targets”
it didn’t want to find the truth, the agenda was all important and must be met!
Now we’re all shackled into billions of wasted £€$ for pointless net zero targets!
A scientist using 1 year of data for purposes of prediction and it’s a mistake…… of course it is! 😂
And using 150 years data out of 4.5 billion years is… ?
Cherry picking
Stark should be heading to jail. Both for quite deliberately picking a single year’s data to mislead and also for his lame attempt to mislead the Telegraph.
Some squeaks of indignation from a couple of MPs, Absolutely no indication that Stark and his CCC team of Stark Raving Lunatics will be held to account.
He and his corrupt cult need to be guillotoned. Instead his bank account will grow admirably. A CBE will be in order, a Sir will be offered. Maybe a UN Directorship awaits.
Caught bang to rights. Presumably he’ll be “considering his position.”
Or, if he wasn’t a member of the Chosen Ones, he might.
The arrogance. To do it via email.
Because these folk know now that even if they are found out nothing will happen and they can just laugh at us… up yours.
Chinese Communist Cult of England
CCP CoE – There’s a lot of ‘C’s in that.
Here are some useful references related to this tyranny. I consider all self evidently bad, except many believe all that is asserted here and it seems rationality is not an antidote, perhaps because the arguments are not rational?
https://www.c3headlines.com/global-warming-quotes-climate-change-quotes.html
Here are a few examples:
“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true’ Paul Watson Greenpeace Founder We routinely wrote scare stories…Our press reports were more or less true…We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment’
Jim Sibbison [Environmental journalist, former public relations official for the Environmental Protection Agency]
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe”
Daniel Botkin [emeritus professor]
“That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have’
Stephen Schneider [Stanford Univ., environmentalist]
“No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits…. climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
Christine Stewart [Former Canadian Environment Minister]
“It is no secret that a lot of climate-change research is subject to opinion, that climate models sometimes disagree even on the signs of the future changes (e.g. drier vs. wetter future climate). The problem is, only sensational exaggeration makes the kind of story that will get politicians’ — and readers’ — attention. So, yes, climate scientists might exaggerate, but in today’s world, this is the only way to assure any political action and thus more federal financing to reduce the scientific uncertainty”‘
Monika Kopacz [Atmospheric scientist]
“Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.”
Lester Brown [Founder of the Worldwatch Institute, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute]
“The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises – whether real or not – is expected to lead to – compliance”
Dixy Lee Ray [Former liberal Democrat governor of State of Washington]
“The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.”
UN’s Commission on Global Governance
“Government in the future will be based upon . . . a supreme office of the biosphere. The office will comprise specially trained philosopher/ecologists. These guardians will either rule themselves or advise an authoritarian government of policies based on their ecological training and philosophical sensitivities. These guardians will be specially trained for the task”
David Shearman
“The data don’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations [for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions] upon the data. We’re basing them upon the climate models.”
Chris Folland [UK Meteorological Office]
“Rather than seeing models as describing literal truth, we ought to see them as convenient fictions which try to provide something useful.”
David Frame [Climate modeler, Oxford University]
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Start point: everything out of Government is a lie until it can be proven otherwise.
He looks like Fergusson – the other modeller.
He’s certainly entitled to his own opinions during his own time but I bloody object to this little s..t trying to stifle information the public is entitled to when I’m paying his bloody wages. He should be sacked forthwith and any monetary entitlements withdrawn as a message to all public SERVANTS.
The Government established CCC is another very expensive and corrupt organisation that is designed to destroy our livelihoods and economy by following Net Zero policies. It is outsourcing to avoid responsibility and access lucrative cronyism. Something like 75 well paid employees paid for by us the taxpayers to wreak our country.