{"id":422557,"date":"2026-01-22T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=422557"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:03:23","slug":"british-climate-crusade-creates-economic-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=422557","title":{"rendered":"British Climate Crusade Creates Economic Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The CO2 Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Vijay Jayaraj<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Across the Atlantic, a self-inflicted disaster is steadily unfolding. One of the United States\u2019 closest allies, the United Kingdom, has surrendered energy riches and industrial prowess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This decline is not the result of any shortage of capital, technological capacity or natural resources. Instead, it is the consequence of an ideologically driven climate agenda that has elevated \u201cgreen\u201d symbolism over engineering reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, politicians have beaten their chests about the U.K.\u2019s \u201cworld-leading\u201d renewable capacity. They paraded statistics showing wind and solar generating most of the electricity, conveniently ignoring that this only happens when the wind blows and the sun shines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When \u201cgreen\u201d generation doesn\u2019t perform, British taxpayers pay for natural gas-fired power plants to back up idle facilities and stabilize the grid. They also pay \u201cconstraint payments\u201d to switch off wind turbines when it is too windy to operate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the great deception of the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) metric the green lobby loves to cite. LCOE excludes the enormous price<\/a> of grid balancing, backup generation, curtailment payments, transmission expansion and subsidies \u2013 all required to prop up the green sham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the real world \u2013 where bills must be paid \u2013 the U.K. has created for itself some of the highest electricity rates on the planet, up to four times<\/a> more than in the United States. One-third of Scots live in energy poverty. But the real cost never shows up in glossy charts that promote manipulated data representing wind and solar as cheap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The price caps of Great Britain\u2019s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets now dominate household conversations, which are amplified by each winter\u2019s anxiety over lifestyle choices. Heat or eat has shifted from a slogan to a lived reality. Once a power behind the Industrial Revolution, Britain has shamefully imposed on its citizens energy poverty. Families ration warmth while politicians celebrate decarbonization targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One reader told U.K.\u2019s\u00a0Independent<\/em><\/a>\u00a0of heating only a single room with a wood-burning stove, mimicking a 19th century living standard 200 years later. Such is the \u201cGreen Industrial Revolution\u201d promised by know-nothing managers of energy policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for what? So that the U.K. can reduce its negligible contribution to global emissions of harmless carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, China and India build coal plants to power the manufacturing exported to them by those who have frittered away British industrial might.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manufacturers have little choice but to leave when a \u201ccarbon tax\u201d and heavy-handed regulation on carbon dioxide emissions artificially inflate the cost of energy. Steelmakers are on their knees, facing energy bills that have surged by billions, rendering British steel uncompetitive against foreign rivals free of net-zero dogma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowhere is the insanity more visible than in the North Sea. For decades, offshore oil and natural gas were the crown jewels of the British economy, providing cheap, reliable energy and revenue to fund public services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, this resource is being sacrificed at the altar of climate theology. The Prime Minister\u2019s punitive windfall taxes<\/a> and refusal to issue new licenses have effectively killed North Sea energy development. Investors have fled. Rigs are decommissioning. Thousands of skilled jobs are evaporating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compare this to U.K. neighbor Norway, which continues to extract oil and natural gas from the sea and sell to global customers, including the U.K. While Britain dismantles its energy sovereignty to appease the likes of Extinction Rebellion, Norway enriches its citizens and funds its sovereign wealth fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The contrast is humiliating. The U.K. imported over 50% of its natural gas supply in 2024 from Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apologists for this British collapse point to anything but the truth. They blame Brexit and the Russia-Ukraine war. They blame a \u201cglobal recession,\u201d pretending that the U.K.\u2019s de-industrialization isn\u2019t an outlier. But the fundamental reason for the collapse is the \u201cgreen\u201d agenda espoused by the political establishment for 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been a bipartisan failure. Tories chased the \u201cgreen vote\u201d by banning fracking<\/a> and demonizing diesel. The Labour party doubled down with net-zero mandates that defy the laws of physics and economics. They built a grid fragile to the weather and expensive to the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A crusade to avoid an imaginary climate catastrophe of the future has created a very real economic disaster in the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally published in Real Clear Markets<\/em><\/a> on <\/em>January 21, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the <\/em>CO2 Coalition<\/em><\/a>, Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, both in the U.K., and a bachelor\u2019s in engineering from Anna University, India. He served as a research associate with the Changing Oceans Research Unit at University of British Columbia, Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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