 In response to the report, Michael Grubb, Chief Economist of the Carbon Trust, wrote an article in "Prospect" magazine, defending the Kyoto Protocol and describing the committee's report as being "strikingly inconsistent".Lawson responded to Grubb's article, describing it as an example of the "intellectual bankruptcy of the [...] climate change establishment".Lawson also said that Kyoto's approach was "wrong-headed" and called on the IPCC to be "shut down".