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CARBON FRAUD No laughing matter...




                                                                                The UNFCCC as well as Designated
                                                                                National Authorities and other agencies
                                                                                have produced masses of figures and
                                                                                statistics, targets, outturns and other
                                                                                material on the scale of carbon emissions
                                                                                and the supposed success of abatement
                                                                                measures.  Many are dogged by lack of
                                                                                consistency, often mixing CO2 emissions
                                                                                with other greenhouse gases, annual figures
                                                                                with longer periodic summaries, absolute
                                                                                numbers with percentages and miles with
                                                                                kilometres. It sometimes seems the
                                                                                confusion is deliberate.

                                                                                The figures used for converting energy
                                                                                consumption vary widely from 400 tonnes
                                                                                of CO2 per giga-watt hour (GWh) to over
                                                                                1,000 tonnes.

                                                                                A wind energy consortium originally
                                                                                recommended a conversion factor
                                                                                of 860 tonnes of CO2 per GWh but
                                                                                had later to admit a figure half this
                                                                                amount. This made savings from wind
                                                                                turbines half that claimed in planning
                                                                                and other applications. By such
                                                                                inflations promoters dupe gullible
                                                                                investors and regulators.







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