According to the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) via a BBC article, the “Government [is] not taking climate seriously”. The CCC’s 2025 ‘Progress in adapting to climate change‘ report, published at the end of last month, highlights a lack of preparedness for our imminent doom. We might find it surprising that the view from the Green Blob end of the debate about climate and energy policy is that Ed Miliband is asleep at the wheel. And with interventions such as the CCC’s, the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero might well be asking who is friends are. Meanwhile, of course, the voting public seem to have signalled that they do not share the CCC’s preoccupations.
The CCC’s report is a litany of screeches about Britain’s vulnerabilities. “Over half of England’s top quality agricultural land is at risk of flooding,” it claims. “6.3 million properties in England are in areas at risk of flooding”; “Over a third of railway and road kilometres are currently at flood risk”; “Heat-related deaths… could rise several times over to exceed 10,000 in an average year by 2050”; “Unchecked climate change could impact UK economic output by up to 7% of GDP by 2050”. But these highlights, as terrifying as they sound, are of course, largely bunk, based on junk science, worst-case scenarios and dodgy computer simulations.
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