I’m no fan of the Chinese Communist Party – but on the environment, they’ve got it right,” The Telegraph, November 3, 2021. To hear today’s reaction to the news that Michael Gove has granted permission to build Britain’s first deep coal mine for a generation is to step through the looking glass into a bizarre world where a Conservative government is considered evil for helping to create mining jobs in a de-industrialised region – and the ‘enlightened’ position is to eradicate the very last traces of the coal industry. Ross Clark argues that it is a terrible mistake, an impractical hostage to fortune which will have massive downsides. Clark argued that: “if it involved any other subject, the news that the Government hid estimates of the true cost of one of its policies would be a scandal.

Clark wrote an article for The Telegraph which argued that the government had misled the public about the cost of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

It involves nothing less than decarbonising the British economy – energy, manufacturing, transport and agriculture included – all in the space of just a few decades. I feel much more informed on the subject of Climate Change now… understanding more about the real risks, costs and technologies involved with both CO2 emissions themselves, and those promised to reduce them.

GDP figures released by the Office of National Statistics this morning show that the economy grew by 0. Clark wrote that the new GCSE in natural history is likely to be “yet another fashionable, soft subject which is designed to indoctrinate rather than educate”.In 2009, he founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation to campaign against policies that tackled climate change by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel use. He criticised the new GCSE – an academic qualification in a particular subject taken by secondary students in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland – as “green propaganda”, an “introduction of political spin” and “the latest manifestation of the old Marxist trick of trying to advance your politics by drumming them into the impressionable young”.

Clark wrote of the “endemic” “scaremongering” in the way organisational bodies disseminate climate science. Clark wrote a columnfor the Spectator claiming schoolchildren who attend climate strikes “may be suffering from trauma”, as they are “victims of the hyperbole they have been fed”. I almost felt annoyed when I realised that he clearly had many telling points and that he pretty much demolished the case for Net Zero on a basis that it’s difficult to unpick even if you think that climate change is very serious and urgent indeed.So even if they are powered by ‘green’ electricity, you will have to drive thousands of miles before you actually save any carbon. It could help strengthen the policy even further, and/or give you a chance to rebut the criticism and make the case for Net Zero unassailable. There comes a point when one wonders whether one has the energy to court controversy on yet another subject, particularly one that has increasingly become a taboo area. He also stated: “In America as in Britain, debate is becoming fixated on decarbonising energy without thinking enough about resilience.