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Climate inaction and delay: Shambles or conspiracy? All sections of society have been failing Cognitive biases, flawed reasoning, fallacies and denial dominate opinions and decision making Climate denial: literal, interpretive and implicatory Government failures Climate science briefing for MPs by Patrick Vallence et al was seriously misleading House of Commons Library reports on climate change are seriously misleading MPs
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Reasons to be very concerned

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Human activity has changed the climate

The climate has changed: The physics Mankind has changed the climate

Time is running out

UK carbon budget calculations 2024 The UK's share of the global carbon budget runs out in 2 years

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UN Secretary-General: "Government leaders are lying" The UK Net Zero 2050 strategy would take three times the UK's share of the global carbon budget

Pleas from those most affected

Pleas from the world's poorest

Action needed

UN Secretary-General: "A grassroots movement that cannot be ignored"

Actions needed

Climate emergency ten-point action plan

1. Overall aim and priority

International commitments given Why 1.5°C?

2. Global strategy: Limit further emissions to 400 billion tonnes CO2

Global strategy: Limit further emissions to 400 billion tonnes CO2

3. The UK carbon budget

The maths of staying within the UK's carbon budget: Halve emissions every 3 years Double digit percentage annual emission cuts "Zero carbon sooner" CO2 budget report from CUSP

4. Reviewing progress against the CO2 budget

Global emissions are still rising

5. Identifying reasons for lack of progress on climate change

Why progress has been so poor: Summary The UK's Seven Principles of Public Life Decision making has not followed the science It is a system failure rather than a failure of individuals Climate urgency denial Auditing consistency with the IPCC: Summary for selected groups

5a. Governments

UK Climate Change Committee: Not consistent with the IPCC UK Government fallacy: overclaiming the reduction in UK CO2 emissions

5b. Media deficiencies

The BBC: Climate denial The Guardian: Climate denial The British Medical Journal: Climate denial

5c. Campaigning deficiencies

Friends of the Earth: Climate denial 2: Response to CCC annual report 2023 Fridays for Future: Consistent with the IPCC Climate Uncensored: Consistent with the IPCC Campaign against Climate Change: Consistent with the IPCC Ethical Consumer Magazine: Climate denial Climate Emergency UK: Climate denial Sustrans: Climate denial

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The 'Net Zero 2050' UK Government fallacies

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Assessing performance on the climate emergency Climate Urgency Realism or Denial score Climate urgency denial in UK Government scientists

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Action needed

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The climate crisis and what to do about it

Climate change: the basics Simple solutions for the climate crisis, which should have been implemented already

Action needed

Local government: Make walking safe Organisations

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Decline in UK domestic aviation Decline of domestic aviation in Sweden

Standards of administration in a democracy

Effective planning

Performance assessments

BEIS is not telling the truth on carbon emissions Transport for the North: Failing on the climate crisis Steve Rotheram: failing on the climate crisis Wirral Council's emission reduction trajectory

Policy Making Code of Practice

The proposed Code of Practice

Clarity of aim
- whether a policy put forward is based on facts and fairness, or is merely lobbying in order to promote a vested interest

Honesty
- telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, avoiding both exagerration and self-censoring

Transparency and reproducibility
- giving all sources, and checking all references, and giving enough detail for a reasonable person to reach the same conclusion

Compliance with commitments
- explaining how there is compliance with all obligations including legal obligations and international commitments, or justifying why there is not

Accuracy
- avoiding unreliable sources and all forms of misthinking, including cognitive biases, denial, and pseudoscience

Consensus and inclusivity
- aiming for a consensus of all reasonable people, and addressing all genuine concerns

Robust
- including common objections and answering them satisfactorily

Openness
- being open to scrutiny, challenge and correction

Giving leadership
- promoting high standards of policy making and challenging errors

(version 1.1.2)

Why a Code of Practice is needed

• there is much dissatisfaction with the current methods of policy making
• current methods are resulting in much inconsistency and many errors

The scope of the proposed Code of Practice

Organisations and individuals putting forward

• full policy documents
• policy modifications

The basis for the proposed Code of Practice

• Nolan's seven Principles of Public Life
  [1]
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• the Science Oath for the Climate of Scientists for Global Responsibility [2]
• standard recommendations for writing scientific papers [3]
• ethical standards of truth-telling in health care.

Justifications for the elements of the proposed Code of Practice

Most of the elements are self-evident - it would make no sense to do otherwise.

The justification for reproducibility - that enough detail should be given for a reasonable person to reach the same conclusion - is that this parallels a similar requirement in the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors for medical scientific articles [3](p17):

Identify methods ... and procedures in sufficient detail to allow others to reproduce the results.

References

[1]	The UK's Seven Principles of Public Life https://www.carbonindependent.org/41.html

[2]	Scientists for Global Responsibility Science Oath for the Climate https://www.sgr.org.uk/projects/science-oath-climate-text-and-signing

[3]	Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (Updated April 2025) https://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf (accessed 29 Dec 2025)

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