This week, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) appointed a new Chief Executive, Emma Pinchbeck, and it was as if a coronation had made some incredibly popular princess a queen. Britain’s army of obsequious green blobbers and political hacks fell over themselves to pay tribute. Even former Secretary of State for Energy Security Claire Coutinho stopped trading insults with her successor (and Pinchbeck’s likely appointer) Ed Miliband to welcome the “wonderful appointment” who “speaks with both passion and expertise” and “always allowed space for thoughtful debate”.
Green policymakers and the broader blob have long welcomed persons of extremely low calibre into their ranks because environmentalism is a mediocracy that thinks itself an aristocracy. Whereas the constellation of institutions that influence the design of policy and the delivery of vital infrastructure has in the past been dominated by people who came up through their trade, today’s wonks, lobbyists, experts and advisors have little practical experience, if any at all. More often than not they are humanities graduates who can profess only “passionate belief” in renewable power to qualify their status as ‘experts’ charged with informing policymakers.
And so it is with 37 year-old classics graduate Emma Pinchbeck, whose career started not very long ago at all at green giant NGO World Wildlife Fund. After two years as the U.K. WWF office’s “Head of Climate”, Pinchbeck was “Senior Executive” at green energy sector lobbying outfit Renewable U.K. In 2020, she became CEO of Energy
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Expertise??? Just shows how thick Sunak’s little bimbo Coutinho – and still MP for my area sadly – really is.
I have been away for a couple of days or otherwise I would have done my usual and tore into this but e the rest of you have already beat me to it anyway. So I will just add that—Does it really matter if someone appointed as a new Chief Executive of whatever body it is regarding Climate Change since all of this eco stuff isn’t and never has been about the climate since the very start. —-Such is the extent of the group think on this that you could appoint the Tea Lady as Chief Executive and it would make not the slightest difference to their final conclusions.
The CCC, to many people, is already the most hated quango in Britain.
During the Covid panic, sorry pandemic, as well as the official Government advisory group, another gaggle of scientists, medics, know alls formed an alternative advisory group, that, while it preached even more stringency and had no official standing, the MSM couldn’t help themselves but fawn over these self appointed busy bodies. Now is surely the time for such an alternative advisory group to be formed to counter the ridiculousness of the CCC. I accept that they will find it harder to break through than the Covid one, because they will not be preaching what the bed wetters want to hear but at least we would have some people speaking sense with a degree of recognition and authority.
Love it: ”environmentalism is a mediocracy that thinks itself an aristocracy”
Same is true of PPE at Oxford. In fact, probably the whole of Oxford, except Estates Management and rowing, both at Oxford Brookes
“I have a lot of sympathy for our politicians, because they are dealing with extremely selfish populations”.
This is as good as the contemporary madleft view that it wasn’t socialism that failed “the people” (in the Soviet Union, for example), it was “the people” that failed socialism.
I take it she hasn’t read “The Selfish Gene”.
You think she can read
EP ‘to support the Government to make this transition in a way that benefits people and the economy’ If she had any idea about physics and was true to her words she’d stop all this madness but I’ll help her… The UK pumps 1 molecule of CO2 into the atmosphere for every 10,000,000 already there. Even a humanities grad can understand this makes zero difference to whatever the current narrative is be that; mini-Ice Age, Global Warming, Climate Change or Extreme Weather. I’ve been waiting patiently for 20yrs for the revolution in green jobs and cheaper electricity but none has arrived.
No they can’t understand that, they are expressly not allowed to understand anything technical or indeed even slightly sensible.
As for the revolution, the only way there will be one is when the very angry long-suffering public decide to go out and stock up on piano wire.
We have to remember this isn’t a scientific thing – it’s a religious aim, everyone feels this is a problem, therefore it is!
It fits – “climate change” is really a sociopolitical project, and nothing to do with science.
Still, at least it won’t be necessary for the last sensible person leaving the UK to turn out the light.
There won’t be one.
This sponge cake brained WEF drone will simply nod through the destruction of the UK economy and everyone in it. Just like Claire Coutinho was doing. They are no different.
What the f*ck is “the broader climate landscape”?
And so the defacto Prime Minister is appointed with barely a whisper to the electorate who have largely non idea this just happened. Regardless of who and what you vote for the 5 year plan presided over by this lady will be government policy.
A cynic might observe that no experienced professional engineer would apply for any such job.
Because they would be too busy getting up after having fallen off their chair laughing.
I dunno, I’d say that would be a realist’s observation.
Another one joins the passenger list for Ark B.
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B :
This will only end in tears. It’s a testament to her lack of judgement that she took the job in the first place – is there nobody who knows what they’re talking about?
Plenty – but they’re all on a blacklist and prevented from having any media exposure.
She’s likely getting rewarded handsomely for this – why would she care about the optics?
“Whereas the constellation of institutions that influence the design of policy and the delivery of vital infrastructure has in the past been dominated by people who came up through their trade, today’s wonks, lobbyists, experts and advisors have little practical experience, if any at all”——–They don’t need experience or expertise as they are only there to implement UN/WEF policies regarding Sustainable Development, Net Zero etc. Infact understanding how energy works or anything about climate that would not seem to fit in with current orthodoxy would actually prevent them from being appointed as they would be a risk to the furthering of the agenda. All that is required is group think and putting a spanner in the works by asking questions will not be tolerated. —The CCC is the most dangerous body in the UK, as every single aspect or everyone’s life and every single activity or business has to viewed as to the assumed influence on climate according to “official science”
It’s a one letter change from CCC to CCP. And then there was the old CCCP.
There a lot of ‘C’s?
…and you can add ‘nut’ to ‘C’ too. Co-incidence.? I think not…
“she always allowed space for thoughtful debate”?
Question for Chris Morrison, if I may. – what do you make of Ned Nikolov:
https://x.com/NikolovScience/status/1842695309614322165
Maybe you already covered this, but any discussion of climate or energy policy which makes the observation that since co2 doesn’t drive harm there is no need to decarbonise, is to be welcomed and repeated.
Don’t forget Karl Zeller. He and Nikolov are very solid chaps, they have recently published a paper that clearly shows climate is controlled by solar irradiance and cloud albedo. That’s it.
Yes, he’s the Z in the NZ model. Confused me, that.
Yes, well said Rose. The only way to fight effectivily with these empires of obsfucation like climate and vaccination is to question the foundational science.
For too long we have worked along the lines of…even assuming you are right, the way you are dealing with it is illogical.
Far better to relentlessly attack the central premise, the core, the only bit of the huge pile of crap that is actually science. Co2 is not related to global climate, but it is related to global life. The more the better. That is demonstrable.
Questioning the foundational science is of course one way of dealing with this, except that when you have people in charge that don’t care about that and are simply following their psychopathic religious beliefs then the only way of correcting the problem is to depose them.
In any manner necessary.
The fact that so many organisations have a preference for soft skills rather than relevant and engineering skills and management and delivery track record, goes a long way to explaining the mess society finds itself in. The current government has next to zero non political experience yet they are tasked with running a vast economy when they would struggle with a mid size company.
Replace “mid size company” with “whelk stall”.
And this is deliberate, can’t have intelligent, capable people getting in the way of the WEF plans for our servitude.
They’d struggle to run a bath
“a mid size company”
I doubt any member of Kneel’s traitors could even run a corner shop.
I doubt any engineering company would survive at all if they favoured soft skills over engineering ones.
Totally agree. It seems to me that, as another charge on the taxpayer, someone WITH KNOWLEDGE of the subject needs to interview her and publish the outcome. I think this should happen every time there is a new appointment to a quango.
Good suggestion. Problem is, publish where with the in message media? Daily sceptic readers don’t need such summary to form an opinion, so can’t be here!
And knowledgeable: knowledgeable of what, exactly?
Of the subject they are being put in charge of it is suggested..
So, never had a proper job then.
I guess she specialises in herding unicorns.
Their farts power the internet.
And how much is this bird costing the taxpayers?
Another mouth on a stick gets a top job!
Abolish the CCC. A complete waste of money. Humans don’t control the climate, least of all UK humans. We’re going to look back on this stuff and be completely mystified about our collective stupidity.
And the WWF. Their recent pronouncements that 3/4 of all life has disappeared in the last 50 years is deliberately hysterical, hyperbolic (perhaps hyperbollocks?) and wrong.
“There has been a catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of monitored wildlife populations* in just 50 years (1970-2020), according to WWF’s Living Planet Report (LPR) 2024.”