{"id":307194,"date":"2024-03-11T13:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=307194"},"modified":"2024-03-11T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:35:26","slug":"we-must-end-the-net-zero-delusion-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=307194","title":{"rendered":"We must end the Net Zero delusion before it\u2019s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The green blob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Enough of the pretence. The current path threatens our economy, society and democracy, and we urgently need a change of direction.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political obituaries will not be kind to Theresa May. But there is one unwritten law of modern British politics the former prime minister understood: you can be wrong on climate change, provided you are wrong in the right way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whisper that net zero by 2050 will have deleterious social and economic costs, and accusations of \u201cdenialism\u201d will swiftly follow. Yet warn that the \u201chouse is on fire\u201d and the end time is at hand, and you\u2019ll probably be given a book deal.\u00a0The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only did May commit the UK to the 2050 target, but in the years since she has doggedly called for the Government to move faster. Last year, just months before we became the first economy to halve emissions since 1990, she claimed we were \u201cfalling behind\u201d.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such attitudes are commonplace \u2013 and it will only get worse. Pity the prime minister in charge in 2033, when the sixth \u201cCarbon Budget\u201d kicks in, or in 2035, when electricity will apparently be fully decarbonised. A gulf now lies between the wishful thinking of the political class and economic reality, yet still the discourse is dominated by doomsday language and a worrying desire to silence dissent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the words<\/a>\u00a0of Climate Change Committee (CCC) boss Chris Stark, when asked for clarity over claims of a \u201cmistake\u201d (which it has denied) made by the body. \u201cHow\u2019s this,\u201d he told his team, \u201ckill it with some technical language.\u201d Like the clergy greedily collecting tithes from peasants unable to understand Latin, the green Blob seem to assume an unsuspecting public can be confused or shamed \u2013 usually both \u2013 into compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CCC, set up to advise government on climate policies, is useful to elected leaders eager to grandstand without taking responsibility or accountability for the choices they make for us. It allowed politicians to bypass the opportunity to scrutinise the 2050 target because they relied on the CCC\u2019s apparently unchallengeable assessment that net zero was \u201cnecessary, feasible, cost-effective\u201d and \u201cachievable with known technologies\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet in December, the OECD warned<\/a> that the shift will leave our economy \u00a360\u2009billion \u2013 or 1.65 per cent \u2013 smaller. The idea that the green economy will lead to a jobs boom ignores the redundancies in those sectors that can never ride the net-zero wave, while the suggestion that the UK will be more prosperous and secure is difficult to square with our growing reliance on other countries for gas, oil, steel and the manufactures they rely on. It is time politicians ended the delusion that the current, top-down, centrally-planned approach to decarbonisation is the right one, and can be delivered at low cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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