I was on the Guff Stream podcast with Hector Drummond and Simon Roberts last week.
The vanity of the global climate talks
Who in their right mind thinks Boris, Biden and Ursula will ‘save the world’? Earlier this week, stories emerged of the prime minister’s plans to once again bring forward the UK’s climate targets. According to the BBC, the government is set to announce that ‘carbon...
The main casualty of the ‘climate crisis’? Journalism
The Sky News Daily Climate Show is an exercise in activism, not news. After much self-congratulating hype, Sky News broadcast the first episode of its Daily Climate Show last night. ‘Hello and welcome to the UK’s only climate daily news show where we track the changes...
The public just isn’t buying the climate agenda
The Tories' Green Homes Grant scheme is yet another failure of green policymaking. This week, the UK government announced it would be scrapping the beleaguered Green Homes Grant scheme. Launched at the end of last summer, the scheme was intended to subsidise the...
Come clean about the cost of Net Zero
Going carbon-neutral would mean a drastic reduction in living standards, but no politician can admit it. The UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a report last week that found ‘there is no coordinated plan with clear milestones towards achieving’...