Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

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Ross Clark. “ We all want to save the planet but the Government’s barely debated and uncosted fantasy of achieving net zero by 2050 will leave us all poorer, colder and hungrier,” Daily Mail, January 21, 2023. Archived January 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.is/d7zG3 Flying, too, will become a preserve of the rich, since aviation is going to be one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise. Planes might even have to be relegated to museums.” While an increasingly extreme climate lobby seeks to deny it, fossil fuels have been the fundamental ingredient of the industrialisation which has changed life for nearly all of us vastly for the better over the past two centuries.” We shouldn’t allow energy policy to be dominated by generation alone, as it has been for years – we have had subsidies galore for power generators with rather less investment in the grid. It is no use generating large quantities of green power if we don’t have the infrastructure to cope with it. That way lies only mass power cuts.”

Anyone who claims that Dorian, or any other hurricane, is a product of climate change and asserts that it would not have happened, or would have been less damaging, without man-made climate change does not have science on their side. On the contrary, it is they who are denying the evidence.”

Clark claimedthat the then hottest July day on recordregistered at Heathrow was deliberately obtained at an international airport, where there are “huge concrete aprons and planes spewing out large quantities of hot air” giving airports their own “microclimate”. 83 Ross Clark. “ Yes, this is England’s hottest July day ever. But this tells us nothing about global warming,” Spectator, July 1, 2015. Archived April 4, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. 84 “ Hottest July day ever recorded in UK,” BBC News, July 1, 2015. Archived April 4, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/iAXN8 The article concludedthat, “we are still a long way from efficient CCS, but there is nothing to say that it can’t outflank technologies such as hydrogen and battery storage, to become a large part of a transition to zero carbon. So, no, it is not a foregone conclusion that oil companies will be brought down and their assets stranded – even if Greenpeace would very much like them tobe.” How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations That Are Strangling Britain, Harriman House, 2007

He argued that efforts to decarbonise the economy had contributed to such events, stating: “We invest in more and more intermittent forms of energy such as wind and solar while the provision of energy storage lags well behind, resulting in several close shaves recently as the wind dropped and the sun went down.” This devastating and detailed demolition of the case for committing Britain to Net Zero should be compulsory reading for everybody in government and the media. Ross Clark is relentless in his pursuit of facts‘– Matt Ridley author of How Innovation Works and Co-Author of Viral: The search for the origin of Covid-19 Clark, Ross (2006). How to Label a Goat: The silly rules and regulations that are strangling Britain. Harriman House. ISBN 978-1897597958. Ross Clark argues that it is a terrible mistake, an impractical hostage to fortune which will have massive downsides. Achieving the target is predicated on the rapid development of technologies that are either non-existent, highly speculative or untested. Clark shows that efforts to achieve the target will inevitably result in a huge hit to living standards, which will clobber the poorest hardest, and gift a massive geopolitical advantage to hostile superpowers such as China and Russia. The unrealistic and rigid timetable it imposes could also result in our committing to technologies which turn out to be ineffective, all while distracting ourselves from the far more important objective of adaptation.

He added: “it won’t mean ‘climate chaos’ if some of these fall – it will simply be an inevitable result of ‘record temperatures’ having become a debased currency”. Most disturbing of all is what that money goes towards. It often ends up funding groups that buy up coal-fired power stations in developing countries only to close them down. Basically, it’s a way of depriving developing countries of a cheap form of power, but it’s dressed up as if it were some great, philanthropic gesture. The elites’ preaching is annoying, but far worse is the fact that they’re prepared to impoverish the world’s poor and prevent them from developing. Ross Clark. “ ROSS CLARK: How absurd you may be banned from selling your own home if you don’t meet draconian new eco rules (which just happen to cost the earth),” The Daily Mail, April 6, 2021. Archived April 6, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8XSiF Phew! The dangers of global warming are receding. Admittedly that is not how most news sources are reporting the publication of the latest IPCC report this morning. But it is the logical conclusion of reading coverage of the issue over the past decade.” Oil and coal companies are the unsung heroes of the greatest period in the improvement of global living standards theworld has ever known.”