{"id":305537,"date":"2024-03-02T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305537"},"modified":"2024-03-02T11:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:42:04","slug":"net-zero-is-a-national-security-threat-and-must-be-abandoned-former-security-minister-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305537","title":{"rendered":"Net Zero is a National Security Threat and Must Be Abandoned, Former Security Minister Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0WILL JONES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Decarbonising the steel and electricity industry in pursuit of Net Zero represents a real and present danger to national security and must be abandoned, a former Security Minister has warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing in a foreword to a new paper<\/a> from campaign group Net Zero Watch<\/a>, Sir Gerald Howarth, Minister for International Security Strategy under David Cameron, said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our adversaries are watching us like hawks, so let us leave them in no doubt: we are rearming and rebuilding, and Net Zero is firmly on hold.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Professor Gwythian Prins, a defence expert and one of the paper\u2019s authors, agrees that with the recent deterioration of the world\u2019s security situation, \u201cluxury beliefs\u201d such as Net Zero must be jettisoned as a matter of urgency:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the moment when the music stops. The Port Talbot closure harshly exposes the costs of luxury \u2018green\u2019 beliefs. We cannot be dependent on imports for the full range of necessary steels to rebuild our arsenals \u2013 the Navy first and foremost \u2013 and, most ridiculously, we cannot depend for them on our global antagonists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, our armed forces are wholly dependent on oil to keep them in the field, and our electricity grid will collapse without gas. Any attempt to abandon them will leave us entirely at the mercy of hostile powers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The paper also includes a contribution from Gautam Kalghatgi, a Professor of Combustion and Energy Engineering, who ridicules plans to decarbonise the armed forces through use of batteries and biofuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historian (and Daily Sceptic <\/em>regular<\/a>) Guy de la B\u00e9doy\u00e8re sets out the eternal historical lesson that technological laggards usually end up the victims of conquest by their more advanced neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. de la B\u00e9doy\u00e8re said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is impossible to diminish the effectiveness of a nation\u2019s armed forces without making it a sitting duck for a more ambitious rival\u2019s greed. But that\u2019s exactly what our leaders seem to want to do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Montford, Director of Net Zero Watch said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The three contributors make it clear that Net Zero is leaving us at the mercy of hostile powers. A Net Zero army and a Net Zero economy could both be brought to their knees in a matter of days. In these dangerous times, our politicians must re-order their priorities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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