Climate change sceptics are 'muddled', says Lord Stern
From The Telegraph website
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/enviro ... Stern.html
I copied & pasted these from the comments submitted under the article linked above.
The Deputy Institute Director of the Grantham Research Institute is one Dr Simon Dietz.
Guess where he got his " first class honours degree in environmental science".
You're right.
The illustrious University of East Anglia.
That should guarantee a totally objective stance on climate change.
Charles Lee
on December 01, 2009
at 06:55 PM
Charles Lee: You've got it in one. The Grantham Institute which Lord Stern heads was set up in Feb 2007 by US billionaire Jeremy Grantham:
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/ ... 79626.html
Mr. Grantham will sit on the management board of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, along with Imperial's Rector Sir Richard Sykes who will chair the Board; Carter Roberts, President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund; and Fred Krupp, President of Environmental Defense.
At the same time, Grantham set up a sister institute at Imperial College, London. A common advisory board will oversee the work of both Institutes.
The Grantham's total investment of over £24 million, made through the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, is one of the largest private donations to climate change research.
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, CBE, FRS is the Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, London
"Committed to ensuring that climate research is used to advise governments and influence policy, Sir Brian was a member of the Royal Commission that first proposed a 60% target for reduction of UK carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. He also acted as a scientific advisor to the Stern Review, credited with pushing the issue of climate change to the centre of the political agenda in the UK, and was a member of the IPCC assessment team recently awarded the Nobel Prize."
Most of the members of the UK Climate Change Committee are based at or associated with Imperial College and LSE and many of them with the World Bank and IPCC. Their powers of control over UK emissions targets will soon be enshrined in law.
So UK Climate Policy is now directly influenced by WWF International and Environmental Defense and cross-linked to IPCC.
Lord Stern is heavily involved in carbon trading advice via the company IdeaGlobal, and its offshoot IdeaCarbon, which he helped to found:
http://www.ideaglobal.com/products/info/about.html
Established in 1989, IDEAglobal is an independent, global research organization, with its headquarters in Singapore, and subsidiaries in New York and London.
IDEAglobal has over 80 full time research staff as well as access on an exclusive basis to a group of expert academics at the London School of Economics, as well as an active Advisory Board of former central bankers and former CEOs of investment bank.
IdeaCarbon:
http://www.ideacarbon.com/advisors/index.htm
Lord Nicholas Stern,
Advisor to IDEAglobal Group, parent company of IDEAcarbon
Author of the seminal Review on the Economics of Climate Change and former Chief Economist at the World Bank, currently the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, heading a new India Observatory within the LSE's Asia Research Centre and also a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was Adviser to the UK Government on the Economics of Climate Change and Development, reporting to the Prime Minister from 2003-2007.
Dr. Samuel Fankhauser is a Principal Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics. He also serves as Chief Economist at Globe International, the international legislator forum.
He just happens to be a member of the climate change committee and sub-committee on mitigation, (ie Carbon trading).
In 2007/08, Fankhauser was Managing Director at IDEAcarbon:
http://www.ideacarbon.com/advisors/index.htm
IDEAcarbon’s premier strategic advice service has been created to give senior decision makers tailored intelligence about key developments in climate change policy and the evolution of the carbon markets.
There is more, much, much more.
DennisA
on December 01, 2009
at 07:56 PM