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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill WWF spivs are spinning
Jan 5, 2015 Energy: solar Energy: wind Greens It hasn't taken long, but the story put out by WWF over the weekend about windfarms meeting nearly all domestic demand during December is being torn to shreds.
Euan Mearns gives the claims a good going over here:
Their press release is biased, vague and ambiguous, and journalists may be forgiven for reaching the wrong conclusions and miss reporting it. It would appear this is the intention.
And David Mackay, the former chief scientist at DECC, is having a go on Twitter too.
.@LangBanks "Home" is a misleading unit - total power cons'm'n in all forms is about 24x greater than "all homes" http://t.co/6rcs7UnGKU
— David MacKay FRS (@davidjcmackay) January 5, 2015Update on Jan 5, 2015 by
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Anoneumouse sends us the new logo for WWF.
Reader Comments (55)
The bottom line to this whole farce is that WWF, Greenpiss, Oxfam, CAFOD, Save the Children etc, etc and so on, have the total and undenying support of the UN - they can say what they like about anything and do what they like because their members/supporters have infiltrated the UN committees and working groups that advise the UN on such matters.
Oddly, I used to know Lang Banks in Edinburgh. He’s generally a nice chap, but we did end up having quite heated rows about this kind of thing. He was at Friends of the Earth then, I think, and I had just started writing about this stuff at The Kitchen…
DK
Excellent logo for WWF Anoneumouse!
Now they're clearly identified as the palindrome they are.
Whether coming or going they say and mean the same thing, "give us your money".
(given that it is the wwf we're talking about, perhaps palindromedary is pertinent?)
As I understand it the turbines located in Scotland are actually UK turbines ( as they are subsidised greatly by the UK taxpayers) and as such should be viewed against UK households. From gridwatch data for December 2014 average metered output = 3846 MW, actual output for metered and unmetered turbines = twice metered output therefore = 7692 MW and this should be divided by approx. 20,000,000 UK households, this calculation gives 384 watts per UK household.
If you think that politicians are economical with the truth and that they spin information, they have nothing on WWF,
Are there not grounds for a complaint to the Charity Commission?