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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Ben Pile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the fifth in a series of 12 articles challenging climate change orthodoxy commissioned by Professor Gwythian Prins. We will be publishing the articles at a rate of one a week over the next 12 weeks (read the first article here<\/a><\/em>, the second here<\/a>, the third here<\/a><\/em> and the fourth here<\/a>). The hope is that they can be collected into a book for Sixth Formers and university students.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the UK Government seeking \u2018dynamic alignment\u2019 with the European Union to save its favourite policy agendas, like Net Zero? Despite the Common Understanding<\/a> achieved in May 2025 to \u201crespect each other\u2019s decision-making autonomy\u201d and despite the June 2016 referendum, some are now warning<\/a> about the \u201cquiet reversal of Brexit\u201d. That Common Understanding requires \u201clinking\u201d the UK and EU\u2019s carbon emissions trading systems, thereby aligning climate, energy and industrial policies, making them again the prerogative of the \u2018rule-maker\u2019 and Britain a \u2018rule-taker\u2019. Starmer and the other fanatical anti-Brexiteers have cargo-cult like expectations that the EU will fulfil their desires. That fervent faith may soon be dashed by irony. Starmer\u2019s prostration before the EU and capitulation to all its vengeful punishments actually seals Net Zero\u2019s doom, not its salvation. Let me explain. We are prisoners in double bondage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than some clandestine manoeuvring behind the public\u2019s back, the more credible explanation for Brexit\u2019s reversal is even more humiliating: that those now running the British state are venomously infantilised. Politicians and civil servants alike despise their own people and country and simultaneously defer to superordinate powers in the United Nations and European Union. The 2008 Climate Change Act is one of Blair\u2019s Rings of Power: Five Acts to rule us all and in the darkness bind Britain; Acts that sacrifice the Common Law of England on the altar of \u2018international law\u2019 \u2013 a perversion of which the Attorney General for England and Wales, Richard (Baron) Hermer is High Priest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The then Labour government believed that the planet\u2019s first \u2018legally-binding\u2019 emissions-reduction policy would lead the world, but there\u2019s a catch. Laws can require emissions reduction, but they cannot compel the wind to blow or the sun to shine. If the rest of the world was<\/em> watching Britain\u2019s \u2018leadership\u2019, then what they have seen since 2008 is deindustrialisation, GDP per capita stagnation and the democratic deficit widening into a traumatic repolarisation of politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than demonstrating \u2018leadership\u2019, climate unilateralism \u2013 making laws that lawmakers have no idea how to implement \u2013 is an oath of fealty to institutions not accountable to electorates. Once the global climate apparatus was created, \u2018international law\u2019 and \u2018Britain\u2019s standing in the international community\u2019 replaced mandates from the public. The Paris Agreement compels prohibitions and diminishes the role of the state in decision-making. This way legitimacy in Britain\u2019s implied social contract dies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EU Directives, often gold-plated in Westminster, required the closure of coal-fired power stations or the reduction of waste sent to landfill among a blizzard of ex cathedra<\/em> regulations. These policies increased costs and reduced levels of service. Similarly, acting on the insidious precautionary principle<\/a>, UN agencies set levels of various substances in the environment with zero democratic mandate and without much by way of discussion about scientific evidence. These limits in turn stoked and validated levels of hysteria among the Believers, evinced in neopuritanism such as veganism or local authorities\u2019 war on cars. They also licensed \u2018lawfare\u2019. Through national and supranational courts any sufficiently funded NGO could force government to bend its policies; but it does so at its peril, even when, under Mark Carney\u2019s hand, government made global financial institutions into human shields in the business of carbon governance. And there\u2019s the rub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a 2012 interview on the BBC\u2019s Hard Talk<\/em>, Christopher Huhne, the then secretary of state for energy and climate change in the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition, said this: \u201cAll through human political history, you have had governments that have tried to set up particular objectives and have realised they can only go so far so fast without the rest of the world going along with them.\u201d Citing the \u201cbad old days of communism\u201d, almost<\/em> as Stalin himself had, Huhne concluded: \u201cYou can\u2019t have environmentalism in one country.\u201d His deliberate paraphrase unintentionally highlighted their common problem: what if the population doesn\u2019t want these \u201cparticular objectives\u201d? It\u2019s a question that advocates of \u201cparticular objectives\u201d rarely ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmentalism\u2019s resonance with communism is dissonant because Stalin at least wanted<\/em> factories and agriculture, whereas Greens celebrate their destruction. However, there is similarity in that radical policy agendas which, lacking popular legitimation, necessarily require top-down apparatus. Supranational institutions offer political power and cash to force or bribe alignment. But for how long can that hold? The European project\u2019s environmentalism, though seemingly at the core of its agenda and authority, is contingent on public prioritisation of the \u2018ecological crisis\u2019. And there are clear signals across the Continent that the green king\u2019s clothes are threadbare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In France, carbon taxes sparked a year of violent clashes between those demanding Macron\u2019s resignation and the police. Only the intervention of the COVID-19 episode boosted the state\u2019s authority. French politics is left polarised by Macron\u2019s \u2018extreme centrism\u2019. Whether or not Marine Le Pen successfully appeals her criminal conviction for embezzlement, polling suggests that a National Rally (RN) candidate will contest the Presidency on a rising wave. According to Le Monde<\/em><\/a>, the RN is ready to exploit the tensions created by climate policy, and last May a vote in the National Assembly repealed the country\u2019s \u201cZones \u00e0 faibles \u00e9missions<\/em>\u201d \u2013 clean air zones equivalent to London\u2019s Ulez. The decision was, according to the Times<\/em><\/a>, backed by 80% of the public and by Left and Right parties alike. The Green Blob\u2019s hitherto unshakable consensus is already shaken at its Mecca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If France rejects extreme centrism, it will be following Rightward shifts in Italy and The Netherlands. The aggressive implementation of UN and EU nitrogen limits led directly to the Citizen Farmer Movement (BBB) and caused the repolarisation of Dutch politics. Similarly, Poland recently appointed independent conservative nationalist and defender of coal, Karol Nawrocki, as President. But it is in Germany, the industrial powerhouse, that the growing change of mood against the green agenda<\/a> may be most significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Energiewende<\/em>, which made electricity a luxus strom<\/em>, coincided with waves of immigration. Combined, both have created a sharp counter-wende<\/em> in politik<\/em>. A snap federal election last year saw Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<\/em>\u2019s vote share double to nearly 21%. The factors behind this change are varied, but the country\u2019s deindustrialisation is widely cited. The thermodynamic truth of Germany\u2019s wind turbines was revealed in the wake of Covid and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Germany\u2019s status as an icon of green industrial growth was fraudulent, dependent as it was on cheap imported gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fallout from this falling out is not only political. Federal Employment Agency figures<\/a> show that in 2024 120,000 jobs were lost from Germany\u2019s industrial sector. According to Welt<\/em><\/a>, union representatives have called on Chancellor Friedrich Merz to suspend the Energiewende<\/em>, calling promises of green growth \u201csmoke and mirrors\u201d and stating that: \u201cNever before has our electricity supply been so expensive and uncertain.\u201d Nor are the unions on this in antagonism with their bosses. Welt <\/em>reports steel giant Arcelor Mittal refusing a 1.3 million Euros bung of subsidies offered by the government for hydrogen-based steel production because it would be uneconomic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe\u2019s political shifts mirror changes in American politics. The USA had been a signatory to the Paris Climate Agreement for barely a year when, in June 2017, Trump explained that<\/a> that he would \u201cput no other consideration before the wellbeing of American citizens\u201d, and that \u201cthe United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris Accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country\u201d. In anticipation of Trump\u2019s speech, the FT<\/em>\u2019s Pilita Clark revealed<\/a> that \u201cChina and the EU have forged a green alliance to combat climate change and counteract any retreat from international action by Donald Trump\u201d. This pivot to the east was a \u201ca stark realignment of forces\u201d, which saw the Rose Garden speech coincide with an EU-China summit<\/a>. \u201cThe alliance struck by the EU and China is a concrete expression of international frustration with Mr Trump,\u201d said the adamantly pro-EU and pro-climate Clark. But who benefits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In interesting symmetry, between 2017 and 2023, China\u2019s CO2<\/sub> emissions<\/a> increased by nearly a fifth to just under 12 billion tonnes, while the EU 27\u2019s emissions fell by the same proportion. Meanwhile, the USA\u2019s CO2<\/sub> emissions fell spontaneously by 6% while drill baby drilling<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the high point of the Paris Accord in the Obama years, many Left-leaning Establishment and elite preoccupations have been knifed. But the global Blob refused to accept rebuff and sought to use state power to reverse the reversals, ignoring one of the great laws of politics: the more that power has been used, the more it has waned. Blobbish intransigence has summoned up countervailing forces. Europe has discovered that its flagship green agenda, which it wanted to impose on the world, has instead made it impotent in the face of its energy-abundant, industrial powerhouse enemies to the east, on which it remains dependent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facing her own crisis of legitimacy, and ahead of a no-confidence vote, Ursula von der Leyen, at an EU Parliament plenary on EU-China relations<\/a>, all but admitted that, rather than creating opportunities for European manufacturers, her \u2018Green Deal\u2019 had undermined them. Blaming China\u2019s \u201csubsidised overcapacity\u201d for trade deficits, the EU President promised to \u201cbuild a more meaningful partnership with China\u201d. But China aggressively subsidises manufacturing for geostrategic reasons, allowing it to dump on and dominate other markets. The na\u00efve EU and YooKay instead subsidise green self-harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European and YooKay governments in thrall to the catastrophist cultists chose to create and sustain comparative disadvantage, putting emissions-reduction targets before consideration of the consequences for domestic industries, employment and consumers. Surely they knew that subsidising domestic green energy production meant subsidising the purchase of goods manufactured in China, using coal?  We know that they knew, because they were complaining about it in the 2000s, but did nothing about it, except to impose tariffs, thereby increasing the cost to consumers, while their destruction of Europe\u2019s coal-fired power stations continued. Expressing this ideological myopia, oxymoronic von der Leyen opined that \u201cBeijing is at once a staunch competitor in the clean tech race, and a vital partner for global decarbonisation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. China is not a competitor. There is no race. There is only China. It is not decarbonising. And its advantages were created in very large part by climate policy which now creates tension within European countries, and between the EU and its members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t claim that the rise in populist, nationalist and largely conservative movements across the continent and the West that have been summoned up are either stable or committed to an \u2018anti-climate\u2019 agenda. But I do claim that such electoral signals in turn make intergovernmental organisations an increasingly unsustainable basis for climate politics. The EU President came to power on an extremely weak mandate, in the wake of the Grand Coalition\u2019s collapse, and her presidency, not unlike Macron\u2019s, has been marked by the continued Rightward and populist shift in European parliamentary arithmetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, Labour won the 2024 election with a massive Parliamentary majority, but with its joint third worst share of the electorate\u2019s support since 1918, including its losses. Despite the most humiliating victory in British electoral history, the Government has pressed ahead with a doomed rhetoric: false promises of \u2018lower bills\u2019 and \u2018green jobs\u2019 in the face of deindustrialisation, job losses, economic stagnation and rising prices. Polls show that this deafness has at last summoned up in Reform an actual opposition to the climate agenda, to give voters a choice. The Government\u2019s problems thereby mirror the crises in the EU, to which hapless, blinkered Starmer now turns, hoping to ease his dire domestic predicament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet in their obsession to cancel Brexit by following \u2018dynamic alignment\u2019, Starmer and his party fail to see that the already collapsing European green policy agenda will take YooKay Net Zero with it, likely sooner than would be the case if the UK tried to maintain climate unilateralism. Starmer leads a zombie party in which Miliband is immensely popular. They will not allow him to dilute climate \u2018ambition\u2019. Labour\u2019s living dead want to stumble back into the collapsing EU<\/a> where they will be hoist with their own petard. What delicious irony indeed in these topsy-turvy times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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