I'm gonna go with a guess and say "Ummm, no." I did, however, look up the folks who wrote this. Climatologists? Nope, some guy called Andrew Simms from some pl

I'm gonna go with a guess and say "Ummm, no." I did, however, look up the folks who wrote this. Climatologists? Nope, some guy called Andrew Simms from some place called the New Economics Foundation. These are the same guys who made up that "Happy Planet Index" which got a bunch of press a few years ago by ranking the countries of the world from best to worst according to various bullshit criteria with carefully tuned weightings (Cuba was fifth, the US was 150th slightly behind Ethiopia and Burkina Faso). The guy is currently billing himself as "head of the climate change programme at the NEF", but as far as I can figure out he's also "director of policy" and wrote or co-wrote most of their other publications. I can't find any reference to any actual academic qualifications other than the fact that he "studied at the London School of Economics".