News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Britain doesn't have enough land for all the solar panels that would be needed to power Labour's nutty Net Zero agenda, says Ben Pile. Truth is, you can't make everything electric and run it on sunshine.
Ed Miliband is reportedly set to end new drilling in the North Sea and the cost of Net Zero is projected to run into the hundreds of billions. The scene is being set for the failures that could bring down the Government.
Net Zero is a high-cost mitigation strategy that can't possibly be better than adaptation, says David Turver – not least because manmade CO2 is clearly not the climate's main control knob.
According to Keir Starmer, Labour's plans for a publicly-owned Great British Energy company will help "close the door to Putin". But the UK's high gas prices are due to Net Zero, not Russia, says Ben Pile.
Why won't the Sunday Times's Economics Editor explain how Net Zero fits with a growing economy? David Smith was asked by David Craig to square this circle for his readers, and he simply responded: "No."
Renewables are not cheap and are never going to be, says David Turver. With over £12 billion being paid in subsidies to or because of renewables each year, the claim that renewable will save us money is a myth.
Last week, British Gas CEO Chris O’Shea caused outrage when he told MPs that ‘smart meters’ should be compulsory. But of course that's where we're headed, says Ben Pile: wind power's unreliability makes it inevitable.
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".
Every job in wind and solar power is currently costing the taxpayer over £250,000 in subsidies every year. This isn't the promised "green prosperity"; it's the path to penury.
The expensive and dangerous folly of more than two decades of UK climate policy has been laid bare by the Offshore Energies UK's new data on Britain's energy production, says Ben Pile.
© Skeptics Ltd.