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Sterngate? Quiet Post-Publication Changes to The Stern Review Exposed in Mainstream Media
Looks as though CRN’s emails (about the quiet alterations to The Stern Review) to the new desks of major UK newspapers on Friday, including The Telegraph, might have paid off:
Sterngate? Stern Review quietly altered so the numbers don’t add up
Friday, 29 January, 2010 14:25
From:
“Paul Biggs”
To:
dtnews@telegraph.co.uk
Cc:
stnews@telegraph.co.uk
I’m very surprised that the Telegraph hasn’t picked up on the embarrassing news about an error in the Stern Review has been quietly corrected, without the effect of the correction on the numbers also being corrected – so that as a result the numbers no longer add up. Furthermore, the Stern Review used the same misinterpretation of the same non-peer reviewed publication that the UN IPCC used to falsely link disasters, such as floods and hurricanes, with global warming.
Disaster loss expert Dr Roger Pileke Jr, who published the peer reviewed critique of the Stern Review in 2007, which resulted in the quiet alteration, explains all on his blog here:
Lord Stern’s spokesperson responds:
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/01/lord-sterns-spokesperson-responds.html
What a tangled web we weave:
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-tangled-web-we-weave.html
I’d have thought that the Stern Review (which is the basis of UK climate alarmism and climate policy) being seriously flawed and quietly altered/fudged would be headline news!
Regards,
Paul Biggs
Could be a coincidence, but Lo and Behold we have this story in The Sunday Telegraph:
Information was quietly removed from an influential government report on the cost of climate change after its initial publication because supporting scientific evidence could not be found.
Read the entire article in The Telegraph: Stern report was changed after being published
Read more on Roger Pielke Jr’s blog: More Post-Publication Changes to The Stern Report
Also, there is this article in The Sunday Times: Climate change study was ‘misused’
Discussed by Roger Pielke Jr on his blog: Robert Muir-Wood on The Stern Report
Related CRN post: ‘Sterngate’: The Influential Stern Review Has Been Secretly Altered
February 1st, 2010 at 9:51 am
Excellent!
Now can we work on this 13 trillion dollar fiasco?
This might explain the position of the BBC, the Environment Agency, other Government and some Universities.
http://www.iigcc.org/index.aspx
“The group currently has over 50 members, including some of the largest pension funds and asset managers in Europe, and represents assets of around €4trillion. A full list of members is available on the membership page”.
The IIGCC are not alone. And UNEP have their fingers in that as well. http://www.unepfi.org.
The world’s largest investors released a statement calling on the U.S. and other governments to quickly adopt strong national climate policies that will establish a stable investment climate and thus spur low-carbon investments to reduce emissions causing climate change. At December’s Copenhagen Climate Change Summit it was estimated that private-sector investors will need to finance more than 85 percent of the global transition to a low-carbon economy.
The Investor Statement on Catalyzing Investment in a Low-Carbon Economy calls for rapid action on carbon emission limits, energy efficiency, renewable energy, financing mechanisms and other policies. The statement was endorsed by four groups representing more than 190 investors with more than US$ 13 trillion of assets – Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).