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Shub N. has been hiding something from us on his blog that, thanks to Donna Laframboise's diligent digging, is now coming to our attention. McKinsey, the management consulting firm, produced a study that examines the cost of reducing our carbon footprint. Behold, they reached the conclusion that it costs real money to do this and the farther you go, the more it costs. They even demonstrate this with a chart that depicts a, dare I say it, hockeystick. What is even more egregious is that McKinsey refuses to release their data, methods, code, etc. leading to an anguished GreenPeace demand that McKinsey release their data, etc. This quote from the GreenPeace press release sums things up nicely: "McKinsey must: 1. Immediately publish all the data, assumptions and analysis underlying the international and national versions of its cost curve and include such disclosures in all future publications." Horrors, are they aware that they are channeling Steve M. et al?

http://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/greenpeace-data-availability/

Jul 20, 2011 at 7:25 PM | Unregistered CommenterRayG

UN annoucement by Ban Ki Moon, East Africa is declared a Famine area, also links it to Climate Change (which is getting worse and affecting millions adversely) and has a planned Security Meeting to cover action required to tackle Climate Change.

Didn't mention bio fuels though, wonder why ?

Desperate stuff

Jul 20, 2011 at 4:29 PM | Unregistered CommenterBreath of Fresh Air

Next week's edition of Home Planet (Radio 4, 1500hrs, 26/07/2011) will have Mike Hulme answering questions on climate change. You can try to ask a question (I got one in there once), but given the BBC's new treatment of sceptics, be prepared to be disappointed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sdz0

Jul 20, 2011 at 1:03 PM | Unregistered CommenterPhillip Bratby

Metoffice Inquiry- Full details and invitation for submissions

http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/110719-new-inquiry---met-office/

Jul 19, 2011 at 11:50 PM | Unregistered CommenterPharos

New Science and Technology Committee Parliamentary Inquiry of Met Office Science & Climate Modelling announced

http://www.thegwpf.org/uk-news/3480-parliamentary-inquiry-into-met-office-a-climate-modelling.html

Jul 19, 2011 at 11:39 PM | Unregistered CommenterPharos

Just in case no-one picked this up, Haunting the Library has highlighted the government sponsored climate change and sustainable lifestyle advisers, that are being dispatched by 39 councils at vast expense (£156m) to lecture their unsuspecting citizens on their own doorsteps during unannounced visits:
http://hauntingthelibrary.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/uk-gov-advisers-to-visit-people-at-home-with-tips-on-sustainable-travel/
Apparently they may call twice to ensure that dissenters who have ignored the advice are put into the little book. Norman Stasi Baker said the money will 'support authorities in delivering local economic growth while cutting carbon emissions'. How so? Can we see his business plan?
What is going on? There is a surreal aspect to nearly all news at present, and I can't help wondering why the creeping authoritarianism - that seemed to be fading in the last year or so - seems to have suddenly taken a lurch forward in just a few months... Is it just me? People's bodies are being snatched....

Jul 19, 2011 at 10:39 PM | Unregistered CommenterJustin Ert

Dear Mr Huhne

With your panoply of green initiatives — the EU ETS, a carbon floor price, Renewable Obligation Certificates, feed-in tariffs — plus the exorbitant cost of electricity from wind turbines, you are set to give Britain the most expensive electricity in Europe, and thus probably the most expensive electricity in the world. This will devastate the competitiveness of our economy, and will drive jobs, industry, production, and investment out of the UK (and maybe out of the EU altogether). This is gesture politics on a grand scale. It will impoverish our children while doing nothing for the climate. We may claim to lead, but no one will follow.

Roger Helmer MEP writes an open letter to Chris Huhne

http://rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/an-open-letter-to-chris-huhne/#comments

Jul 19, 2011 at 10:16 PM | Unregistered Commentermatthu

Polar bear cubs dying as climate change melts Arctic and forces them on long swims
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2016322/Polar-bear-cubs-dying-climate-change-melts-Arctic-forces-long-swims.html

Jul 19, 2011 at 6:13 PM | Unregistered CommenterAJC

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/jul/19/climate-change-wiki-heartland-institute

Leo Hickman running a pointless article about Heartlands closed wiki..

I (bbcbias) point out in the comments that Realclimate has a closed wiki, and that W connolley behviour at wikipedia

Jul 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM | Unregistered CommenterBarry Woods

Via a comment on WUWT, a trenchant discussion of Australian CO2-related policy:
http://papundits.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/co2-emissions-reduction-a-radical-plan/

Jul 19, 2011 at 2:22 PM | Unregistered CommenterHaroldW

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