The Net Zero Scandal

Amid the murky world of climate politics is a constellation of organisations vying for influence, awash with cash, all pushing on the green juggernaut, regardless of what the broader public wants or needs. The public’s views, interests and wishes count very little in any corridors of power, where only the alignment of academia, global agencies, and NGOs is required. Behind the interventions of eve...

It takes a lot of patience, hard work, and a determined mindset to get to the bottom of claims about how much the UK’s climate and green energy policies are already costing us, and how much they are likely to cost us in the future. There is the physics of energy generation, and there are the relative merits and demerits of conventional verses green tech. And there are the constraints of the power...

Climate science has many problems. But rather than confronting these issues in open and transparent debate, advocates of climate policies seek to shut down and slander their critics. In this episode, we hear from Marcel Crok, founder of  Clintel  — Climate Intelligence — a global movement of scientists and others who “aim to be the voice of reason in the often overheated climate debate”. And for m...

In 2005, the UN EP  predicted  that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010. But as 2010 came and went, climate sleuths observed that the areas from which the UNEP had predicted people would flee now had increased populations. The climate refugees were nowhere to be found, and the UNEP had quietly deleted their webpages, rather than reflected on their failed predictions. In...

A number of weeks into the Labour government, the inevitable cracks are starting to appear in the pre-election promises. According to The Telegraph , the new Secretary of State for Energy Security & Net Zero refused to repeat his elections pledges in the House of Commons, and admitted that it may be some time before the bill payer sees the benefits of the tens, perhaps hundreds of £billions th...

The appointment of the new government sees the return of Ed Miliband, who last held the energy brief in 2010. Then Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, now Energy Security and Net Zero, Miliband has made climate and energy, the beginning, midden and end fs his political narrative. This week we learned a little more about the new government’s plans, but not much. It is a shame that Mil...

The new Labour government has wasted no time in launching three new vehicles it hope will reanimate the corpse of the green agenda. The National Wealth Fund, GB Energy and the Clean Energy Mission Control. All staffed and supported by the same-old-same-old wonks, banks and blobs, can this new configuration of deckchairs stop the Net Zero Titanic from sinking beneath the waves? And what is green ec...

In the aftermath of the UK General Election, we discuss the results, and the implications of the new Labour Government, with its massive majority of seats, with its historically tiny vote share — the smallest ever won by a government. Will the likes of Ed Miliband defy all reason and reality, to double down on Net Zero, or will his party stop him?  Host and Climate Debate UK co-founder Ben Pile is...