As our leaders bicker over how fast Britain should get to Net Zero, you’ll hear politicians, eco-zealots and media pundits claiming that Britain is leading the world in reducing our country’s CO2 emissions. This is one of the few statements about climate made by our ruling elites which does actually appear to be true. Since 1990, Britain’s CO2 emissions have almost halved from 604 million metric tons to just under 350 million tons by 2022. That equates to a drop from 10 metric tons per capita in 1990 to below five tons per capita:
While celebrating this great supposed ‘success’, our politicians, media and eco-activists often seem less keen to explain how this reduction in CO2 emissions was achieved.
Here’s another chart. It shows the share of the U.K.’s GDP made up by manufacturing:
Since 1990, the year U.K. CO2 emissions started falling, the percentage of U.K. GDP from manufacturing has also halved from just over 16% to around 8%.
Moreover, during the same period, the number of people employed in U.K. manufacturing has dropped from 4,963,000 to just 2,601,000. A cynic mighty be tempted to wonder what happened to all those hundreds of thousands of highly-skilled, highly-paid green jobs that our rulers promised us would be created in Britain by the energy transition away from fossil fuels to renewables.
For years the U.K. has had some of the world’s highest energy prices due to our replacement of cheap, reliable fossil fuels with expensive, unreliable and intermittent supposed ‘renewables’. In 2022, in the U.K., which gets only 42% of its electricity from fossil fuels, household energy cost $0.41/kWh. In France, where 70% of its electricity comes from cheap, reliable nuclear, electricity costs were just $0.21/kWh – almost half the U.K. price. In the U.S., which generates about 60% of its energy from fossil fuels, the price was $0.18/kWh – less than half the U.K.’s cost. In China, where 55% of electricity comes from coal and a total of 83% comes from fossil fuels, household electricity costs are only $0.08/kWh – a quarter of the U.K.’s cost. There is a similar picture in India, where over 75% of electricity generation is from fossil fuels, of which three quarters comes from cheap, energy-rich coal, household energy costs only $0.07/kWh – a sixth of the U.K. cost.
So, just to put all of this into context, we can look at how much of the U.K.’s GDP comes from manufacturing – making real things that people in Britain and abroad want to buy – compared to our major competitors. In 2022, 8% of the U.K.’s GDP came from manufacturing compared to 9% for France, 12% for the U.S.A., 13% for India, 14% for Italy, 18% for Germany and a massive 28% for China.
A picture is emerging which suggests that the more a country relies on renewables for its electricity, the higher are its energy costs and the lower is the percentage of its GDP made up by manufacturing.
Economist Richard Salsman wrote: “The science of economics is clear: the production of money and debt is not equivalent to the production of real wealth. To claim otherwise is to follow fantasy, not reality – or science.”
As we in Britain enthusiastically print money and increase national debt in pursuit of our Net Zero goals, we seem to be wrecking U.K. manufacturing with high energy prices thus committing economic suicide as U.K. manufacturing moves to countries with lower energy costs. It’s more than astonishing that not a single one of our politicians and media supposed ‘experts’ seem to understand or are willing to admit what is actually happening and how the U.K. is committing an extraordinary act of self-mutilation by cutting the country’s CO2 emissions.
If there really was a climate crisis, the U.K.’s economic suicide to supposedly save the planet might be justified. But as I try to explain in my most recent book There is No Climate Crisis, there is no emergency that warrants such extreme actions. Yes, the Earth has probably warmed up a little since the freezing 1960s and 1970s when many experts were panicking about global cooling and the advent of a new ice age, which experts predicted would cause crop failures, mass starvation, the migration of millions from the cooling North towards warmer countries and wars over scarce food supplies. But this warming is just part of a natural cycle of warming and cooling driven mainly by the Earth’s rotation, solar activity and cloud cover. Moreover, the ice caps aren’t melting, in spite of the Guardian and the New York Times regularly predicting their demise. The polar bears are doing fine. In fact there may be so many of them that they may have difficulty finding sufficient food. The Great Barrier Reef has record levels of coral. Around five times as much U.S. forest burned each year in the scorching hot 1920s and 1930s as is burnt now. Even the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) admits that there has been no acceleration in sea level rise for the last 100 years. And the number of people killed by extreme weather events has fallen by over 95% in the last 120 or so years in spite of the world’s population quadrupling from under two billion in 1900 to almost eight billion now.
It’s a pity that those dragging us towards their Net Zero nirvana aren’t a bit more forthcoming about the economic devastation that their deluded policies are inflicting upon us.
David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.
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The 70-year-old drug dealer, who was granted anonymity,
Why? Why was he granted anonymity? Come to think of it, why has our degenerate Establishment given up on protecting our people from the social dross they’ve imported?
This makes one wonder if foreigners will eventually, with full backing of the UN refugee agency, be deported for not breaking the law.
So an unelected foreign body, namely the U.N runs the U.K. Glad that’s sorted then.
Smackheads and Turkish barbers are some of the nicest people I’ve ever known.
Remember when we were a sovereign nation?
It is a blindside attack. No population even if they were particularly astute and enlightened could fend off or even anticipate an assault of this kind. This new method of warfare can’t really be defended against. We have been robbed of the tools to fight spiritual warfare. That’s what they ought to say at arrivals at Heathrow – abandon hope all ye who enter here. Unless you are part of the forces of darkness of course, in which case you will have a wail of a time.
The judiciary is not fit for purpose. They are the enemy within.
I regret I see it that way too.
They are interpreting the laws the politicians put in place. Change the law or repeal it and they wouldn’t be able to. The problem starts and ends in Westminster.
Good point. There is an interesting discussion about this, on the latest podcast.
I think that’s too simplistic. Anybody who gets a jail sentence could argue that this denies him his human right to a family life. Further, referring to a Kurdish mobster operating at executive level in his organisation as refugee is totally absurd. Considering this, this verdict is obviously a malicious interpretation of the convention on human rights or rather, a political one: The people behind this are convinced that there ought to be an unlimited right of immigration into welfare states, ie, that deportation is never legitimate. Hence, they ‘find’ accordingly whenever they have an option to do so.
These politicians in disguise must either be purged from the ECHR or any country whose leaders intend to exercise souvereign control over its borders must leave.
The Southport child-killer didn’t cover his face today;
https://x.com/astor_charlie/status/1869426969995293147
And he had the jihadi training manual for up to 3 years. Did the authorities know? I’ll bet any money his parents knew;
“Axel Rudakubana had been in possession of “The Al-Qaeda Training Manual” up to 3 years before the Southport massacre!
Court proceedings today reveal that Rudakubana is being charged with being in possession of the manual between 2021-24
This has dramatic implications: is it that security and counter terrorism services failed to pick up upon Rudakubana’s activities, or did they know but fail to sufficiently intervene?
Either possibility is sickening… This gets worse and worse.”
https://x.com/astor_charlie/status/1869407846510510085
Is he not being charged with pre meditated murder of three children? This never gets mentioned, he is a child murderer with terrorist sympathies, whole life sentence with absolutely no chance of parole…. Pity we gave up with rope and drop…
Yes, agree. It was actually the judge who decided to put his plea of ‘not guilty’ forward for him today because he refused to speak, apparently. So this trial will be interesting…What on earth do they do in this situation, if the accused decides to play silly buggers and wants to remain non-verbal? I think we can put money on the fact his defense will go the ‘diminished responsibility’ route. There was also the concern that he’d be tried as a child because he was <18yrs when he murdered those girls, attempted to murder ten others, I think.
“Diminished responsibility” is also always nice for the security and wider state apparatus because it both implies that nobody could have foreseen and thus, prevented this and that this was ‘just’ a lone lunatic. Contrast this with so-called
whiteright wing extremists who are invariably always acting according to coldly premediated political plan and who are always part of some shady global internetwhiteright wing extremists network, regardless of how obviously deranged they are.The typical
whiteright wing extremist is a sexually frustrated loner living together with his husbandless mother who has a history of depression etc and usually commits suicide as crowning part of his action. The clinical term for this is extended suicide. But not forwhiteright wing extremists. These are always mentally sane and just evil.Who seeks out Turkish barbers? A very small number I would imagine. It isn’t a particularly sophisticated camoflage but it seems to work. You hear people asking thequestion about why there are fifty Turkish barbers in there small insalubrious city. Well, they might give you a good haircut and beard trim but that is because they are high on the profits from elsewhere. Illegal entries are instructed to go to the nearest Turkish barber you dig.
Just what we would expect from the judiciary and the elites.
Well of course he fucking did.
It’s only indigenous brits have no rights at all, to free speech freedom of association ownership of firearms.
We have the right or rather the obligation to pay for a million and a half freeloaders per year who arrive and rape our kids…
Same profile of attacker and victims, every single time. And I saw a picture elsewhere of the lady he murdered and she was white.
”Algerian asylum seeker Nasen Saadi has been found guilty of the murder of Amie Gray, 34 on Durley Chine Beach, Bournemouth.
He spent a month planning the random murder of the two women.
I’m not aware of a verdict on the attempted murder of Leanne Miles, 38.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1869414672572559663
One can only wonder what crime would result in anyone being removed from the UK.
I can only think of one possible ‘crime’ – saying nasty hurty things about 2TK Starmer. Otherwise mass killers, rapists, bank robbers, child molesters – all are VERY welcome in the UK!
Everyone in the world can have “rights” except British citizens We need a class action against the judiciary for breaching our rights
No point Philp protesting: The Treacherous Tories won’t repeal the HRA and leave the ECHR. So he’s just making noises.
Reform, on the other hand …..