From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Just what we need – a renewable lobbyist taking over at the Committee on Climate Change:
An energy boss who has backed the need for more electricity pylons is to become the chief executive of the Government’s net zero watchdog.
Emma Pinchbeck, of the trade body Energy UK, will take over as chief executive of the climate change committee (CCC) next month.
The energy chief has argued that massive amounts of new infrastructure will be needed to transport renewable power across the country to meet the Government’s net zero targets.
She has also described the return of onshore wind as “delightful” after Ed Miliband ended the de facto ban in his first days as Energy Secretary.
Several communities in England are engaged in planning battles with the National Grid over new pylons, including more than 100 miles of cables in East Anglia.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/09/supporter-electricity-pylons-net-zero-watchdog
Emma Pinchbeck is best known as Deputy Chief Executive at Renewable UK, the lobby group for renewables. Prior to joining RenewableUK, she was head of the Climate Change team at environmental watchdog WWF-UK.
Not much hope of any objective thinking from our Emma then!
Who?
“”. It’s the quiet ones you gotta watch…”” – George Carlin.
They’d be more truthful if they called themselves
The Committee on Climate Change Policy or CCCP
The big problem for the climate change committee is that nobody with any brains or scientific knowledge wants anything to do with it. Hence this appointment.
She doesn’t look old enough to know anything.
That does not appear to be a photograph.
Knowing anything is obviously not part of her job description in the climate-industrial complex.
An article 9 years ago said she was 29 so around 38.
Has she explained to anyone just why Not one important Climate forecast has ever materialised – or for that matter why the 1970s thinking that we had a new ice age on our hands never came to pass?
There’s a very, very strong case that the green lunacy in the UK should in the first instance be paid for by bankrupting every single member of the Labour Party, the Green Party, every single green energy lobbyist, all the Just Stop Oil lunatics, all the Extinction Rebellion nutcases.
Take all their assets, all their pensions, all their inheritances and all their salaries to pay for their nonsense.
No complaints from them are allowable.
They want the nonsense, they pay for it.
This has to be the most corrupt and crony driven government Parliament has produced thus far. It’s no accident that less than 100 days in its like they’ve been there for years (in opposition they have). No plan, no vision other than net zero for net zero’s sake.
“”The row over Taylor Swift’s concert freebies has been hilariously extended for another day. Labour was forced to defend lobbying the police for a motorcade for Swift while accepting freebie tickets from her record label…”” – Guido Fawkes
“”Multiple revelations of Labour hiring so-called “impartial” civil servants whose links with Labour are more than a little eyebrow-raising have surfaced this week. After Guido revealed two more sycophants parachuted into Civil Service roles…
https://order-order.com/2024/08/21/watch-labours-cronyism-hypocrisy/
“”Yet another politicised civil service appointment appears to be on the cards for the government. Labour Together campaigner Jess Sargeant is rumoured to have been appointed to a top civil service role. Labour is already under serious fire for hiring its own donors and ex-Labour Together staff to top civil service positions in blatant cronyism…””
https://order-order.com/2024/08/20/rumours-swirling-over-latest-labour-together-crony-appointment/
Then there’s the new lords etc free-gear Kier has appointed. So, Pinchbeck’s appointment was entirely predictable. When Kier slashed the financial commitment to mad Milibands ‘green superpower‘ projects…
“”Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of trade association Energy UK, warned that “business needs to know that politicians won’t pull the rug from under them”.
https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/547526/starmer-defends-labours-green-u-turn/
And so, another lunatic has taken over the asylum committee.
”Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of trade association Energy UK, warned that “business needs to know that politicians won’t pull the rug from under them”.
i.e. They need to know that the subsidies gravy train will keep flowing/running.
Good God, is she still at school?
Studied Classics at Oxford
Tells you everything you need to know about her…
I saw that she was a member of the blob and mistakenly assumed she did the usual PPE degree
I have tried, unsuccessfully, to find out about this woman; such as University and Degree obtained, but Nada!
Anyone?
See above.
You are right, it’s not easy to discover. Probably that’s not on purpose. Probably.
She has a Classics degree from Oxford:
https://www.so.energy/article/invisible-heroes-003-emma-pinchbeck
Also, as Emma Lucy Pinchbeck she is listed as a director of 7 companies, including UK100 Cities Network Limited.
Does it matter…really?
“”an expert in whole-economy decarbonisation and the energy transition. “” – Energy UK
An expert?
“” I’ve come to work for the private sector because that is where the money, the innovation, the ideas and speed is. We are going faster in the private sector than the government is moving. That’s why I’m in this job.”
…
…was training to work in financial services when she saw David Attenborough’s BBC television series Frozen Planet. It was her energy epiphany. She quit the training course and went to work for a start-up energy consultancy, which was a springboard to her landing her dream job at the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in the UK, where she eventually became Head of Climate Change.””
Airhead
it might be that you need everyone to have a heat pump because electrification is efficiency. “So, if you are looking at energy demand across the economy, electrification might be the way to go. But trying to get an official’s brain around the idea that it’s a swop-out of one heat technology for another kind of heat technology because that is demand reduction, is massive.”
https://www.powerengineeringint.com/editors-picks/diversity/why-emma-pinchbeck-is-passionate-about-the-people-in-the-energy-transition/
And I thought Deben was a loony.
She obviously doesn’t have a clue.
Over 22m of the 28m homes in the UK are on the gas network. Electricity is 4 times more expensive than gas.
Many UK houses are Victorian and later terraced housing and are unsuitable for heat pumps – at least 12m are reckoned to be unsuitable – largely because of lack of space.
So she wants to make heating four times more expensive and if you haven’t got the space you can freeze – does she have shares in hot water bottle companies?
My house is Edwardian – cheaper to knock down and start again .
Expert?
The defining characteristic of ‘progressivism’, at least as it developed here in the US, is that the vast majority of us common folks need to be governed by ‘experts’ because most of us are simply too stupid or venal to govern or fend for ourselves. If not actively stopped at the ballot box, progressivism inevitably evolves to more virulent forms of socialism, which is what your Labor and our Democrat parties seem to be hell bent on doing.
An absolute know-nothing.
The UK will be very ugly once it’s covered with wind and solar farms and those pylons. Give up on the tourist industry.
Miliband believes the pylons will get in the way of the fox hunts.
With regard to Ms Pinchbeck, appointnent, Secretary of State for the Department for Net Zero and Energy Security, Ed Miliband, said:
“We are almost halfway through the decisive decade to halt climate change.”
So Ed seriously believes that the government can halt “climate change” by the end of 2030. However, if he is referring to “human-induced climate change” then he’s onto a winner. Unfortunately he intends to throw billions of pounds at solving a non-existent problem.
Everybody who is anybody in the climate change world is over the moon about the appointment of Ms Pinchbeck. Unfortunately, despite her huge importance, she does not seem to qualify for a Wikipedia entrance so I have been unable to discover her age. But she does look much older than that picture at the top of this article. I also discovered from the website of Energy UK that she has an MA from the University of Oxford but the website is coy in telling us the subject of her MA. Might it be anything relevant to her job?
I see that someone has provided the information that the subject was Classics, the fundamental subject one needs to study to become an expert on climate change. Somebody should ask her a simple question on the science of climate to see how she gets on answering it.
Word salad, anyone?
“”it might be that you need everyone to have a heat pump because electrification is efficiency. “So, if you are looking at energy demand across the economy, electrification might be the way to go. But trying to get an official’s brain around the idea that it’s a swop-out of one heat technology for another kind of heat technology because that is demand reduction, is massive.””
https://www.powerengineeringint.com/editors-picks/diversity/why-emma-pinchbeck-is-passionate-about-the-people-in-the-energy-transition/
I have a serious dislike for anyone that thinks they know how to order societies.
she can jog right off.
The Classics is all God’s and Myth’s so very close to CO2 being the planets sole control knob for Climate.
A new Head Clown for the Climate Clowns Committee. Thus far, this Government has been clearly driven by dangerous ideology at every step.
Excuse me. I just read this. I am going to go puke.
With the clarification that it is not the article, but what the article exposes.
We can I suppose be thankful that we have been spared Skidmore, who had clearly been hoping to get the gig. He is the one who pushed net zero through Parliament. Pinchbeck is unlikely to have much political heft, and her lack of real science knowledge will leave CCC pronouncements wide open to attack. Not that Deben was much of a scientist.
Emma Pinhead
It’s happening all over the world. Clueless puppets are being appointed to created positions in administrative roles that are given the power control our lives. They figured out how to control democracy without getting rid of the vote.
well I can tell from the graphic that she is bright, articulate, very insightful, has a deep care for gaia, and has seen the existential threat climate change poses to us all. I am sold. Where did she get those pretty earrings?
Pinchbeck – adjective “appearing valuable, but actually cheap or tawdry”
(Thanks to Google/Oxford)
I know it’s an unkind thought, but I couldn’t resist.
Pinchbeak...
Having a pointed nose that is constantly projected above others of a perceived lower caste
As wind and solar are mostly rent seeking, putting a rent seeker in charge is at least honest.
Story tip
https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/54141/1/Carroll_etal_WE_2015_Failure_rate_repair_time_and_unscheduled_O_and_M_cost_analysis_of_offshore.pdf
Wind turbine failure rate is an average of 8.3 failures per turbine per year.
Failures are delineated by minor (6.2), major (1.1), major replacements (0.3) and uncategorized (0.7). The categories are based on the cost of repair.
Does she have skin in the game like shares in a windmill company? Normal for the CCC. (Brown, Gummer)
Celebrate diversity, put some skeptics on the committee.
Fox … henhouse much?
Remember, government has net zero targets because they think they are saving the earth.
At some point, people like Emma are going to have to show results.
At 30 years into implementing the plans of the Kyoto Protocol, there have been ZERO results so far.