{"id":419138,"date":"2025-12-30T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=419138"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:50:10","slug":"tide-turns-against-climatists-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=419138","title":{"rendered":"Tide Turns Against Climatists\u2019 Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Richard Miller points to growing distrust of climate ideology and to receding support for impractical energy and social policies aimed at fighting global warming\/climate change, but serving only to inflict energy poverty. His article is\u00a0The Tide Turns Against the Climate Change Agenda: A Long-Overdue Reckoning.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For nearly two decades,\u00a0Britain\u2019s climate lobby has held an iron grip on policy, discourse, and public imagination, promising<\/strong>\u00a0a utopian future of\u00a0cheap energy, green jobs, and global leadership<\/strong>. From Westminster\u2019s corridors to the BBC\u2019s airwaves, the mantra was clear:\u00a0Net Zero would make us richer, healthier, and safer, all while saving the planet<\/strong>. But the cracks in this narrative are\u00a0now<\/strong>\u00a0gaping wounds.\u00a0Soaring energy bills, crumbling industries, and a public fed up with unfulfilled promises<\/strong>\u00a0signal a seismic shift. The tide is turning against the climate change agenda, and it\u2019s about time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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The climate establishment\u2019s dominance rested on a\u00a0seductive pitch: green policies would deliver prosperity without pain.<\/strong>\u00a0Wind turbines and solar panels would slash energy costs, insulate us from petrostates, and create a jobs bonanza. As Maurice Cousins noted in his August 2025\u00a0Artillery Row\u00a0piece, this vision\u00a0transformed environmentalism from a middle-class indulgence into a technocratic consensus, backed by state funding, Big Philanthropy, and celebrity endorsements.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yet, the reality is starkly different. Britain now faces some of the\u00a0highest industrial energy costs<\/strong>\u00a0in the developed world, with\u00a0electricity prices for businesses nearly double<\/strong>\u00a0those in the U.S. Heavy industry is in retreat, steelworks and manufacturing\u00a0plants are shuttering,<\/strong>\u00a0while the UK\u2019s\u00a0reliance on energy imports<\/strong>\u00a0has surged, exposing vulnerabilities during crises like Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The public isn\u2019t blind to this failure.\u00a0Polls reflect a growing backlash.<\/strong>\u00a0While abstract support for Net Zero lingers, a 2025 YouGov survey found 47% of\u00a0Britons want climate policies scaled back when faced with their costs, high bills, job losses, and lifestyle constraints.<\/strong>\u00a0Reform UK voters, with 32% endorsing reduced green measures, are leading the charge, but even mainstream figures like Tony Blair and trade unions like Unite are breaking ranks,\u00a0questioning the feasibility of the green agenda.<\/strong>\u00a0This isn\u2019t just scepticism; it\u2019s a revolt against a narrative that promised abundance but delivered austerity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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The climate lobby\u2019s response? Double down and deflect.<\/strong> Take the recent video by Simon Clark and Carbon Brief\u2019s Dr. Simon Evans, which Cousins critiques as a desperate attempt to \u201cmanage\u201d dissent rather than engage with it. Acknowledging rising bills and Britain\u2019s mere 1% of global emissions, it dismisses public concerns as misinformation fuelled by fossil-fuel propaganda.<\/strong> This patronising tone, epitomised by praising the \u201cindependent\u201d Climate Change Committee, a body of unelected technocrats, only deepens distrust. It\u2019s a tired playbook, seen in Brexit and migration debates<\/strong>: label critics as ignorant, pathologise their concerns, and cling to elite authority.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the public\u2019s lived experience, bills they can\u2019t pay, industries they\u2019ve lost,
trumps rhetorical window-dressing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The folly of the climate agenda lies in its defiance of economic and physical realities.<\/strong>\u00a0Low-density, intermittent renewables like\u00a0wind and solar cannot power a modern industrial economy without massive subsidies and grid instability.<\/strong>\u00a0The Office for Budget Responsibility has warned that Net Zero\u2019s costs, projected at \u00a31.4 trillion by 2050, far outstrip promised savings. Meanwhile, global competitors like\u00a0China and India, responsible for over 40% of emissions, continue burning coal with little regard for Western virtue-signalling.<\/strong>\u00a0Britain\u2019s \u201clead by example\u201d approach is not just na\u00efve, it\u2019s self-destructive, hamstringing its economy while others race ahead.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This reckoning is long overdue.\u00a0The climate lobby\u2019s promises were always more faith than fact<\/strong>, rooted in a utopian vision that ignored trade-offs.\u00a0Green jobs?<\/strong>\u00a0The UK\u2019s renewable sector employs fewer than 75,000 people, a fraction of the 500,000 jobs lost in manufacturing since 2000.\u00a0Cheaper energy?<\/strong>\u00a0Households face bills 60% higher than a decade ago.\u00a0Energy independence?<\/strong>\u00a0The UK imports 40% of its electricity on peak days, often from fossil-heavy grids abroad.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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The climate agenda\u2019s failures are not a messaging problem,
they\u2019re a policy disaster, colliding with
the hard limits of physics and economics.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tide is turning because the public sees through the fa\u00e7ade<\/strong>. From factory workers to suburban families, people feel the squeeze of policies that prioritise ideology over reality. The green backlash isn\u2019t just about cost, it\u2019s about trust.<\/strong> When elites lecture about \u201csaving the planet\u201d while ordinary citizens struggle to heat their homes, resentment festers. Reform UK\u2019s rise and the growing chorus of mainstream dissent signal a broader awakening: the climate agenda, as it stands, is unsustainable.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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It\u2019s time to pivot. Instead of doubling down on unworkable targets, Britain needs pragmatic policies, investment in nuclear energy, which provides reliable, low-carbon power; deregulation to revive industry; and a frank acknowledgment that global emissions won\u2019t bend to Western sacrifices alone. The climate lobby\u2019s grip is slipping, and no amount of technocratic spin can stop the public\u2019s demand for change. The reckoning is here, and it\u2019s about time we embraced it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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