CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITTEE TRY TO COVER UP MISTAKE IN ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT

 Climate chief told staff to ‘kill’ negative net zero story | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Chris Stark,The head of the Government’s climate watchdog, the Climate Change Committee (CCC),  told officials to “kill” a negative news story with “technical language”, The Telegraph can disclose

The article reported a claim by Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, who led a recent Royal Society study on future energy supply, that the CCC had privately admitted that it made a “mistake” when it only “looked at a single year” of data showing the number of windy days in a year when it made pronouncements on the extent to which the UK could rely on wind and solar. farms to meet net zero targets.

In a presentation delivered on Oct 31 2023, Sir Chris said: “By looking at one year you underestimate storage and you grossly overestimate the need for everything else. That’s exactly what the Committee on Climate Change have done.”

He added: “The Committee on Climate Change, as I already said, looked at a single year and they have conceded privately that that was a mistake. But they are still saying they don’t differ that much from us. Well, that’s not quite true.”