According to Labour, "all families deserve the security of a home they can afford to heat". If the party really believed that, says Ben Pile, it would drop its commitment to over-priced green energy and ramp up the gas.
Sceptical voices in the Tories have started to be heard on Net Zero. But Ben Pile isn't buying it. You could barely put a piece of paper between the party and Ed Miliband when it comes to alarmism. It's a phoney war.
The Guardian's flounce off X is just an admission that it lost the argument, says Ben Pile. The liberal retreat to comfy echo chambers coincides with Milei's Argentina quitting COP29. The Blobs are going down.
Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband are at COP29 to "show leadership on the climate challenge". The trouble is, says Ben Pile, no one is following, and the U.K. is just looking more and more ridiculous.
Will Donald Trump kill Net Zero, asks Ben Pile. Yes. But more precisely Net Zero will kill Net Zero. Because no one wants to become Germany, with its headlong rush into deindustrialisation, least of all China and the USA.
'Scientists say climate change made Spanish floods worse,' declares the BBC. In fact, says Ben Pile, the more sinister truth is that green ideology is at war with flood defences as it sees flooding as "natural".
Since Covid, some anti-establishment sceptics have been drawn to question whether weather is being manipulated, cancer treatment should be rejected and pesticides should be banned. This is unhelpful, argues Ben Pile.
The Green Blob has got itself a "Special Representative for Nature" who will "put climate and nature at the heart of our foreign policy". Good grief, says Ben Pile. Don't we have any real external threats to deal with?
China is fooling David Lammy when it tells him we have a "shared interest" in a "global green energy transition". In the decade to 2022, China's emissions increased by 17%, while ours fell by 35%. Shared interest?
A new report from the "Energy Crisis Commission" calls for a move way from fossil fuels, somehow missing that this is what's driving the energy crisis, says Ben Pile. That's because the "Commission" is pure Green Blob.
The Climate Change Committee has appointed Emma Pinchbeck as its new CEO – a 37 year-old humanities graduate with no experience in the energy industry except lobbying. Can the calibre go any lower, asks Ben Pile.
The fount of green propaganda continues to flow, with two new reports from the Green Alliance purporting to link health problems and climate change. Ben Pile reads them so you don't have to and highlights the worst bits.
