WWF spivs are spinning

Jan 5, 2015
Bishop Hill in Energy: solar, Energy: wind, Greens

It hasn't taken long, but the story put out by WWF over the weekend about windfarms meeting nearly all domestic demand during December is being torn to shreds.

Euan Mearns gives the claims a good going over here:

Their press release is biased, vague and ambiguous, and journalists may be forgiven for reaching the wrong conclusions and miss reporting it. It would appear this is the intention.

And David Mackay, the former chief scientist at DECC, is having a go on Twitter too.

.@LangBanks "Home" is a misleading unit - total power cons'm'n in all forms is about 24x greater than "all homes" http://t.co/6rcs7UnGKU

— David MacKay FRS (@davidjcmackay) January 5, 2015

Article originally appeared on (http://www.bishop-hill.net/).