The Treasury faces a £13 billion hit from Labour’s ‘green’ North Sea shutdown, BP’s former finance chief has warned. The Telegraph has the story.
Category: Net-Zero
Climate Scepticism in Six Charts
As national policy, Net Zero is environmentally irrelevant at the global level, physically impossible to achieve, economically ruinous and politically performative: an unserious approach to governance that undermines sensible policy…
Green Empire Strikes Back
We know the energy Jedi are winning the argument when the green empire has to resort to emotive pictures and mendacious invective to make their point. None of Tim Stanley’s…
Utopian Dreams of Net-Zero
Whether one believes in the CO2 hypothesis or not, more fossils are existential. Both to ensure progress and growth, and to cope with climate change, manmade or not.
Britain’s Collision Course With Trump’s Energy Counter-Revolution
A Net Zero zealot meets an energy realist superpower. What could go wrong?
Big Tech On The Path To Net Zero — 2026 Edition
… after the level of sanctimony that these guys have engaged in, let alone censorship of others, nobody should forget that it was all a scam from the outset.
EU’s Pretense of ‘Transition’ Leadership Is an Economic Loser
The great majority of mankind aspires to more prosperity, which requires abundant and cheap energy – what the EU employed before adopting ecological dogma. The clash between climate ambitions and…
The Case for EVs Has Failed
The case for EVs has failed, says Professor Gautam Kalghatgi. With lifetime emissions scarcely better and net health impacts three-fold worse than combustion vehicles, destroying our car industry cannot be…
CfD Subsidies Cost £492 Million in Q2, Despite Iran War
Note that the recently awarded AR7 contracts for offshore are currently priced at £97.05/MWh, so will still require subsidies when operational in five years or so time, based on existing…
Britain’s National Security Must Not Be Sacrificed to Net Zero
Anticipate the moment, not too far away, where the keel grinds on the rocks and the British ship of state is holed and wrecked by Net Zero. It will be…
Tory Centrists Defy Badenoch’s Red Lines on Net Zero and ECHR
Kemi Badenoch’s red lines on Net Zero and the ECHR are facing open revolt from centrist Tories. The Telegraph has the story:
Miliband’s Favourite Net Zero Think Tank Funded by Foreign Cash
A green energy think tank that Ed Miliband relied on to draw up policy is partly funded by overseas cash, leading to questions about the influence of “shady” green lobbyists…
Net zero power station to be built on Loch Ness
It will turn it into a tidal lake, damaging the shoreline ecology with the plumes of turbulent water from the pipes, damaging the water quality.”
No Wind? No Sun? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
You guessed it! Coal and gas! It’s wonderful, all of this “renewable” electricity!
Air Conditioning Torn From Homes Under Net Zero Clampdown
Homeowners are being forced to tear out air conditioning from their properties under Net Zero laws that prioritise “passive cooling” and only permit “active cooling” as a “last resort”. The Telegraph has…
Britain will need up to £240bn of net zero upgrades
All of these issues have long been known by those in charge of our energy systems and those imposing their Net Zero dogma. But the costs have quite deliberately been…
Yet Another Climate Activist Masquerading as an Economist
She dismisses the counterarguments — that Net Zero is unaffordable, that the UK cannot act alone, that transition costs will raise the cost of living — as “bad arguments” and…
Sainsbury’s ditches brown eggs in net zero drive
The UK’s second-largest supermarket plans to sell only white-shell eggs in its own-brand cartons after studies found they have a lower carbon footprint than brown alternatives.
The Justification for Net Zero Has Vanished with the Demise of RCP8.5
Any justification for Ed Miliband’s Net Zero climate policy, whether real or imaginary, has vanished with the official abandonment by the IPCC of the scariest concentration scenario RCP8.5. Even Tony…
Serious Doubts Arise About Kew Temperature ‘Records’ as Recent UK Heatwave is Weaponised to Drive Net Zero
The observed changes in temperature over the past 30 years therefore owe more to flaws in measurement… rather than any wider anthropogenic effect. The uncritical adoption of the PRT technology,…