The UK's green sector has not grown in nearly a decade. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published data earlier this month which showed that the UK’s ‘low-carbon and renewable-energy economy’ (LCREE) had not grown significantly between 2014 and 2020. This...
How the BBC is crushing the climate debate
BBC News is equating criticism of the green agenda with conspiracy theories and science denial. BBC News carried two articles last week denigrating and demonising the critics of climate-change alarmism. The first was by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s ‘specialist...
Insulate Britain is in bed with the establishment
It’s no surprise that one of its activists is married to a TfL boss. The tabloids have had a field day with the revelation that an Insulate Britain activist is married to a director of Transport for London (TfL). Cathy Eastburn of Insulate Britain has been busy trying...
They’re all Extinction Rebellion now
Politicians, technocrats and scientists have all signed up to an irrational green agenda. The Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests on London’s streets are drawing to a close. As with its earlier protests, XR’s trademark stunts these past two weeks have drawn vast...
What the IPCC climate report doesn’t tell you
Humans have never been more safe from the impact of extreme weather than they are today. Today, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first tranche of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). This report, focusing on the ‘physical science...
Is the climate really getting more disruptive?
Climate policy, not climate change, poses the biggest risk to our daily lives. The UK Met Office released its annual State of the UK Climate report last week. Presenting the report, meteorologist Alex Deakin said that ‘understanding and observing the weather closely...
Are we finally getting cold feet about Net Zero?
The government’s green agenda is a disaster waiting to happen. There are press reports of growing tension between the UK treasury and the government over its Net Zero agenda. According to the Mail on Sunday, chancellor Rishi Sunak ‘baulked’ at the estimated cost of...
The lockdown fanatics are moving on to climate change
The likes of Independent SAGE crave a permanent state of emergency. Sir David King is a former UK chief scientific adviser to successive New Labour governments, and the founder of Independent SAGE, the self-appointed group of experts offering scientific advice to the...
The crippling cost of Net Zero
Green technocrats are utterly indifferent to the lives of ordinary people. The International Energy Agency (IEA) published a special report last week, setting out its proposals for achieving ‘Net Zero’ carbon emissions. One of its headline demands is that gas-fired...
Do we really want to go to war for the climate?
The British defence establishment is spoiling to become the global climate police. Senior politicians and officials seem to be carving out a new green role for Britain’s armed forces and so-called ‘intelligence’ agencies. According to these reports, troops and spies...