Lord Stern: Meat Head

Remember when Lord Stern claimed that eating meat was killing the planet?

Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.

He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”

Stern was wrong:

Blaming cows and pigs for climate change is scientifically inaccurate, said Mr. Mitloehner, dismissing several reports, including one issued in 2006 by the United Nations, which he said overstate the role that livestock play in global warming. The UN report “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” which said livestock cause more anthropogenic greenhouse gases than all global transportation combined, merely distract from the real issues involved in climate change and are a distraction in the quest for true solutions to global warming, Mr. Mitloehner said.

Not only was the Stern and the UN wrong (again), they are given a slap for ‘distracting’ the public from ‘true solutions’. Expect more of this as the big green tent starts evicting lunatics that gravitated to the big green banner to promote their particular dysfunction.

Oh to be a fly on the wall at Peta this morning.

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