2023-08-11
CLINTEL (Climate Intelligence - an independent foundation in the fields of climate change and climate policy to generate understanding of the causes / effects of climate change and the effects of climate policy) bring us their studious assessment of the recent AR6 report from the IPCC.
They have written (download) to Professor Dr. Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC, to express their specific criticisms, concluding:
"We regrettably conclude that the IPCC has failed to follow this advice and the AR6 exhibits the same flaws as before, namely biased selection of evidence, failure to reflect genuine controversies and failure to give due consideration to properly documented alternative views"
Strong stuff.
Who funds them?
"Clintel is totally independent and does not receive any funding from governments or any foundation. Our support base is you – the thousands of private citizens around the world who are more concerned about the negative effects of judicial climate policies than about climate change itself" (source: https://climatecaseofthecentury.org/)
(11 minutes)
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Are CLINTEL the only 'proper scientific' voice challenging the IPCC? By no means - the CO2 Coalition (download) is also on the case.
Does it matter?
Well, here is Alistair Heath writing on the implications of our government's policy (I nearly said plans, but that might be too ambitious) for the United Kingdom:
"Electric cars aren’t enough; we will still have to drive less. We will need to fly less, even with sustainable fuels. We will need to eat 20-35 per cent less dairy and meat"
Who says so? " ... the Climate Change Committee (CCC), a ... influential quango which advises the Government on the level of each budget and how much of a contribution each sector should make"
Replicate this around the whole of the western world and we can see the absurd size of problem.
When did we approve these policies? When we elected our MPs.
Did we have a choice? Oh yes - provided that we could vote out all of the major parties (Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Greens) because they were all united on this issue.
And that is essentially the problem - there are some very contentious issues on which no major party is prepared to offer us a choice of policy. Net Zero is just one of them.
