Today on wind power
Nov 10, 2012
Bishop Hill in Climate: Parliament, Energy: wind

In amongst the carnage and bloodshed of the BBC's handling of the McAlpine affair, the Today programme took a moment to talk to Lord Deben and somebody from the Renewable Energy Foundation about subsidies for wind power.

Does it strike anyone else as strange that every time somebody from GWPF goes on the BBC they are asked about their funding, but every time Lord Deben goes on nobody asks him about his acknowledged (and continuing) conflicts of interest?

Anyway, Lord D was on top form, trying to convince everyone that wind is nearly cost-competitive with other forms of energy (the great levelised costs lie) and waffling on about the "devastation" of climate change.

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