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Published: Saturday, May 23, 2026

How the jet-setting commissaries of the climate change quango use dodgy statistics to peddle hysteria - and justify their own existence | Daily Mail Online Home US Showbiz TV Sports US Politics Royals News Crime Desk Lifestyle Money U.K. Buyline Games Columnists My Profile Logout Login US Edition Privacy Policy Feedback Friday, May 22nd 2026 7PM 57°F 10PM 57°F 5-Day Forecast Advertisement How the jet-setting commissaries of the climate change quango use dodgy statistics to peddle hysteria - and justify their own existence By MATT RIDLEY Published: 19:46 EDT, 22 May 2026 | Updated: 19:46 EDT, 22 May 2026 e-mail View comments --> --> --> After a chilly month, England may record its hottest May day since records began next week, beating a previous high set all the way back in 1944. As

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How the jet-setting commissaries of the climate change quango use dodgy statistics to peddle hysteria - and justify their own existence | Daily Mail Online Home US Showbiz TV Sports US Politics Royals News Crime Desk Lifestyle Money U.K. Buyline Games Columnists My Profile Logout Login US Edition Privacy Policy Feedback Friday, May 22nd 2026 7PM 57&deg;F 10PM 57&deg;F 5-Day Forecast Advertisement How the jet-setting commissaries of the climate change quango use dodgy statistics to peddle hysteria - and justify their own existence By MATT RIDLEY Published: 19:46 EDT, 22 May 2026 | Updated: 19:46 EDT, 22 May 2026 e-mail View comments --> --> --> After a chilly month, England may record its hottest May day since records began next week, beating a previous high set all the way back in 1944. As if on cue, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) quango produced a report this week declaring: ‘British way of life under threat from heat, flood and drought.’ The CCC – established back in 2008, when Ed Miliband was climate change secretary under Gordon Brown – is supposed to be an objective adviser to the Government on policy. Instead, it behaves like a hysterical pressure group, and a powerful one at that. Between the moment when these climatecrats wake in the morning and the moment they lay their overworked brains to rest on feather pillows at night, it seems they have one all-consuming ambition: to maximise their own budget. They achieve this goal by being as alarmist as possible. Imagine if they found evidence that climate change was no big deal or even good news: would they want to publish this? Of course not. It would be disastrous for their (taxpayer-funded) income. The committee has never produced a report on global greening – the remarkable 15-20 per cent increase in green vegetation on the planet over the past four decades, caused mostly by carbon dioxide emissions. Nor do its members talk about falling deaths from cold weather anywhere near as much as they do about the smaller number of deaths from hot weather. Good news for us, in short, is no news for them. CCC Chief executive Emma Pinchbeck has a salary of approximately £200,000 ‘This new report sets out a comprehensive package of solutions to address the growing impacts of climate change affecting every aspect of life in the UK,’ the committee says. ‘We are already seeing disruption today – and, without action, these risks will escalate. ‘By 2050, 92 per cent of homes are likely to overheat, peak river flows will be up to 45 per cent higher and water-supply shortfalls could exceed 5 billion litres per day.’ In order to combat overheating homes, the committee says we will need more air conditioning. This is true, although good luck relying on all our new wind farms to produce the necessary electricity on hot, still days. But the rest of this doomsday report is full of howlers. It states emphatically that, by 2050, ‘sea levels will be [not “could be” or “may be”] 20–45cm higher around UK coasts than

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