Last week, I wrote about how the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change had written a report that seemingly poured cold water over the Labour Government’s Net Zero plans, but which was just an attempt to save Net Zero for the Green Blob – the Blair think tank’s funders. This week, another report, produced by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) for the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), attempts to boost the Net Zero agenda by analysing the green sector’s metrics. Whereas the Blair report was characteristically slippery, this week’s report from the Green Blob is a far more blunt attempt to gaslight the public.
I should first explain what the ECIU is, because it helps to reinforce the main point that I made in the previous article. The Blair report, I pointed out, was produced with the ‘support’ of the European Climate Foundation (ECF), as every report from every think tank and fake academic organisation intervening in climate politics is. The ECIU was founded and is funded by the ECF. It is one of a constellation of think tanks and campaigning organisations that simply would not exist were it not for the ECF’s bottomless bank account. And from the outset in 2014, it produced dodgy reports that did not inform the public debate, but instead belittled the public’s capacity. Its first public offering was analysis of a poll that the ECIU had commissioned, which, the ECIU claimed “shows widespread misconceptions about energy and climate change”, but which in fact clumsily misinterpreted the results of its own poll that asked a stupid question.
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