Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

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Ross Clark. “ If Rishi Sunak caves in to the wind turbines zealots, the lights will go out in Britain… and perhaps on his premiership, too,” Daily Mail, November 29, 2022. Archived November 30, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.is/J3hCD

I fear that under net zero, cars will become a luxury; we will return to the world as it was before the 1960s, with the wealthy driving around on pleasantly empty roads, but with everyone else expected to take the bus […] That is simply cruel.” Clark concedes that “the world is warming and there are many reasons why we should want to cut carbon emissions and adopt cleaner forms of energy”, but also argued that “some of what passes for warnings on climate is sheer flight of fancy” and “is not climate science, nor science of any kind; it is science fiction, dreamed up to serve a particular political outlook”. This was later resharedby the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. 62 Ross Clark. “ Christian Aid should drop the climate rubbish,” Global Warming Policy Foundation, December 29, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/ShsZc The article contains excerpts from Clark’s upcoming anti-net zero book. In one extract, Clark suggested “there might even be some benefits from a warming climate […] such as the ability to grow a richer variety of crops in Britain, but this tended to go missing from the reporting”. He added: “it won’t mean ‘climate chaos’ if some of these fall – it will simply be an inevitable result of ‘record temperatures’ having become a debased currency”.But to keep spiked free we ask regular readers like you, if you can afford it, to chip in – to make sure that those who can’t afford it can continue reading, sharing and arguing. Clark, Ross (2017). War Against Cash: the plot to empty your wallet and own your financial future - and why you must fight it. Harriman House. ISBN 978-0857196255.

Ross Clark. “ I’m no fan of the Chinese Communist Party – but on the environment, they’ve got it right,” The Telegraph, November 3, 2021. Archived December 17, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/WlM6OReason Foundation (6 November 2013). "Newsday's Lane Filler and The Times' Ross Clark Win Reason Foundation's Bastiat Prize". Reason Foundation. Clark began a Spectator article titled “How did climate doomsters get the Great Barrier Reef so wrong?”, by saying: 37 Ross Clark. “ How did climate doomsters get the Great Barrier Reef so wrong?”, Spectator, August 8, 2022. Archived October 31, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HBkPs

How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations That Are Strangling Britain, Harriman House, 2007 In an article for the Telegraph, Clark criticised the charity Christian Aid for blaming “everything on man-made climate change”, suggesting they should “drop the climate rubbish”. 61 Ross Clark. “ Christian Aid should drop the climate rubbish,” Telegraph, December 29, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/lWXDH In an articlecriticising Extinction Rebellion, Clark wrote: 67 Ross Clark. “ Where are the workers in the Extinction Rebellion protests?” Spectator, July 15, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.

Children will be taught, for example, the ‘impact of diet choices for land usage and environmental impact’ […] That isn’t educating children to think for themselves; it is trying to train them to be the next generation of environmental activists.” The thing that made the biggest impression on me is that in the rush to achieve Net Zero, it’s almost inevitable that enormous costs are going to be placed on those least able to bear it. If you give over a lot more land to tree planting and rewilding rather than agricultural production, food prices are going to go up. Relying exclusively on renewables, given the cost of storage and the intermittency problem, will push up energy costs even further. Running an electric car is going to be a lot more expensive than a petrol car. Heat pumps will be more expensive than gas boilers. The list goes on. It dawned on me that there is a real a risk that the push to achieve Net Zero creates a two-tier society where the wealthy can still afford to fly, drive and not shiver, but the poor increasingly cannot.