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Bishop Hill Apr 2, 2012 Climate: Surface Richard Muller is interviewed in the current issue of Physics World (H/T Jonathan Jones). The article is not online as far as I can tell, but there are some interesting comments that I will reproduce here.
Asked by he started the BEST project, Muller replies:
Bishop Hill Apr 2, 2012 Climate: WG2 Climate: WG3 The UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has a guest post from Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, who is "the UK Government’s Climate and Energy Security Envoy".
Britain famously has more admirals than warships and one often wonders what all these highly paid people actually do all day, so it is good to have this clarification that the Ministry of Defence is setting up "jobs for the boys" schemes to keep redundant sailors up to their necks in our tax money.
Hague's decision to allow Morisetti a guest post on his facebook page rather seems to endorse the corruption too.
Morisetti's article is largely content-free, but he manages to demonstrate an almost complete ignorance of how business works, suggesting that supply chain disruption for businesses needs to be addressed by government policy.
That a redundant sailor doesn't understand that this is the kind of thing purchasing managers worry about on a day-to-day basis is understandable. That he should be paid a huge salary to advertise his ignorance is not.
Bishop Hill The BBC's Richard Black has been getting involved in drafting an environmental call to arms, which goes by the name of the Donostia Declaration:
The Declaration called for RIO+20. It also asked for the summit to make decisions on “Global Governance”, “Global Goals”, “A Global New Green Deal”, “Mobilisation”, “Education For Sustainable Development” and finally for the complete implementation of “Agenda 21″.
Black's Whitewash has the story.
Coming after the BBC accepting free programming from green groups, coming after CMEP and the revelations of the Climategate II emails, this is probably not much of a surprise. But I think it is fair to say that we have to start asking questions about the integrity of the members of the BBC Editorial Standards Board.
