Labour's swivel-eyed Net Zero zealotry is getting more cult-like by the day, says Sallust – as two recent articles in the Daily Telegraph, one on a weird 19th century sect and one on COP29, make clear.
While the West surrenders its energy security on the altar of Net Zero, China secures 80% of the world's solar market with its coal-fired economy. This is craziness, says Sallust, and Australia is waking up.
While lecturing the world on climate change, Keir Starmer has sent a staggering 470 delegates to COP29, creating a 5,000-mile carbon footprint and costing millions in taxpayer money.
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.
Trump's victory, coming on the eve of COP29, could not be better timed to hammer the final nail in the coffin of the global environmental agenda, says Tilak Doshi. It's time to help the developing world industrialise.
COP29, the green billionaires' annual jamboree which starts today, is doomed to be a damp squib because the next President of the US is a Net Zero sceptic. Almost not worth taking the private jets out of the hanger.
The U.K. Health Security Agency has launched a "climate mental health distress" project. It's absurd, says Chris Morrison. They spend taxpayer money alarming people and then they spend even more trying to soothe them.
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.
Policymakers routinely exaggerate the risk of climate change, bordering on being hysterical, as well as being alarmingly complacent about the costs of their schemes to mitigate it. Why? asks Andrew Sibley.
Earlier this week, David Lammy said climate change was a bigger threat to our security than terrorism or war. Nonsense, says Ben Pile. The greatest threat to our security is climate policy.
