Tag: Climate Change Act

In ruling that oil cannot be extracted without taking into account its impact on Net Zero, the U.K. Supreme Court has delivered yet another blow to the country's dying industries, says Ben Pile, not to mention parliamentary sovereignty.

The U.K.'s Net Zero policy is unachievable, disastrous and pointless – and that's the case even if you accept that CO2 emissions are warming the atmosphere, says Robin Guenier as he sets out the case against Net Zero.

Outgoing Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee Chris Stark has accused Net Zero sceptics of waging a "culture war". Not really, says Ben Pile, but the way politicians are pushing it we could end up in civil war.

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has written in the Telegraph to counter "ludicrous claims" that pursuing Net Zero will boost the economy and drive growth, calling it "patently not true and wishful thinking".

Opposition to Net Zero has belatedly been pushing through, but there is a long way to go. The MPs now standing up for realism could start by coming clean about the inner workings of the green blob, says Ben Pile.

Lord Stern's official climate review found that if the world did nothing it would make us just 5% poorer. As with Covid, the cure is clearly worse than the disease – even for those who accept the official 'science'.

As Prime Minister, Theresa May tied the country to Net Zero shortly before she left office in 2019. Since then she has raked in nearly £3m from speaking and books. Is there a link, asks Alex Kriel.

The terrible truth is that even Sunak's mild watering down of Net Zero may be unlawful, says Allister Heath. The PM needs to change the law.

In 2006, Professor Nicholas Stern produced a report on climate that underpinned the Climate Change Act two years later. Looking back, its pessimistic assumptions overestimated 'climate damage' by $1 trillion.