Climate policy, not climate change, poses the biggest risk to our daily lives. The UK Met Office released its annual State of the UK Climate report last week. Presenting the report, meteorologist Alex Deakin said that ‘understanding and observing the weather closely...
Are we finally getting cold feet about Net Zero?
The government’s green agenda is a disaster waiting to happen. There are press reports of growing tension between the UK treasury and the government over its Net Zero agenda. According to the Mail on Sunday, chancellor Rishi Sunak ‘baulked’ at the estimated cost of...
The lockdown fanatics are moving on to climate change
The likes of Independent SAGE crave a permanent state of emergency. Sir David King is a former UK chief scientific adviser to successive New Labour governments, and the founder of Independent SAGE, the self-appointed group of experts offering scientific advice to the...
The crippling cost of Net Zero
Green technocrats are utterly indifferent to the lives of ordinary people. The International Energy Agency (IEA) published a special report last week, setting out its proposals for achieving ‘Net Zero’ carbon emissions. One of its headline demands is that gas-fired...
Do we really want to go to war for the climate?
The British defence establishment is spoiling to become the global climate police. Senior politicians and officials seem to be carving out a new green role for Britain’s armed forces and so-called ‘intelligence’ agencies. According to these reports, troops and spies...
Guff Stream Podcast
I was on the Guff Stream podcast with Hector Drummond and Simon Roberts last week.
The vanity of the global climate talks
Who in their right mind thinks Boris, Biden and Ursula will ‘save the world’? Earlier this week, stories emerged of the prime minister’s plans to once again bring forward the UK’s climate targets. According to the BBC, the government is set to announce that ‘carbon...
The main casualty of the ‘climate crisis’? Journalism
The Sky News Daily Climate Show is an exercise in activism, not news. After much self-congratulating hype, Sky News broadcast the first episode of its Daily Climate Show last night. ‘Hello and welcome to the UK’s only climate daily news show where we track the changes...
The public just isn’t buying the climate agenda
The Tories' Green Homes Grant scheme is yet another failure of green policymaking. This week, the UK government announced it would be scrapping the beleaguered Green Homes Grant scheme. Launched at the end of last summer, the scheme was intended to subsidise the...
Come clean about the cost of Net Zero
Going carbon-neutral would mean a drastic reduction in living standards, but no politician can admit it. The UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a report last week that found ‘there is no coordinated plan with clear milestones towards achieving’...