Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

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I fear that under net zero, cars will become a luxury; we will return to the world as it was before the 1960s, with the wealthy driving around on pleasantly empty roads, but with everyone else expected to take the bus […] That is simply cruel.” Ross Clark. “ What David Attenborough’s climate change show didn’t tell you,” Spectator, April 20, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. In an article for the Telegraph, Clark criticised the charity Christian Aid for blaming “everything on man-made climate change”, suggesting they should “drop the climate rubbish”. 61 Ross Clark. “ Christian Aid should drop the climate rubbish,” Telegraph, December 29, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/lWXDH

In a January 2023 Daily Mail article, Clark wrote: 15 Ross Clark. “ My inconvenient truth: Ross Clark accepts that the planet IS warming. But in a new book he challenges the consensus and argues that the hysteria and doom-mongering that now surround any debate risk doing more harm than climate change ever could,” Daily Mail, January 21, 2023. Archived January 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.is/RTbU2 In a Spectator article titled “Britain would be wrong to pay climate change reparations”, Clark wrote: 24 Ross Clark. “ Britain would be wrong to pay climate change reparations”, Spectator, November 9, 2022. Archived November 25, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/bJNO2 Ross Clark. “ Why don’t we hear about the beneficial side of climate change?” Spectator, November 28, 2014. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. For one thing, the ambition of many countries to go carbon-neutral by 2050 does not necessarily mean that it will be achieved. Such a vast change to the economy relies on a combination of new technologies becoming economic on a commercial scale by that date. We still don’t know, for example, how we are going to store energy generated by intermittent wind and solar farms.” He also stated: “In America as in Britain, debate is becoming fixated on decarbonising energy without thinking enough about resilience.”Clark arguedthat schoolchildren involved in the climate strikes were “traumatised” by documentaries “stitched together to give the impression of impending doom”. 65 Ross Clark. “ School climate strikers should answer these two questions,” Spectator, September 20, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Clark continued: “In the minds of Deben [chair of the government’s Climate Change Committee], Sharma and others, only one thing seems to matter: lowering Britain’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. All other considerations, such as jobs and national prosperity, seem to go out of the window.” Ross Clark. “ Why is coronavirus receding in China?” Spectator, March 9, 2020. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.

Ross Clark. “ Don’t blame all ‘weird’ weather on climate change,” Spectator, December 3, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. It has been a received wisdom among many in government, opposition and in the great green blob that switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy would make us better off. How laughable that claim seems now.” What I did not quite like, is that the book uncritically accepts the false narrative of CO2 being the source of all problems, much in line with what is trumpeted by ICCC. But we all know how biased ICCC is. It is paid to promote the "bad carbon" agenda and it does it. Their science have been questioned by so many serious scientists. Instead of seeing the obvious, that CO2 from the point of view of physics cannot be the primary green gas, that methane and especially water vapours are far more important, the book goes on about the "decarbonisation". In other words, while burning fossils fuel definitely needs to be reduced, simply because once they get used up, our chemistry and agriculture will immediately collapse, the story about "bad CO2" is a hoax, used by clever machinators to make huge money. Clark wrote that despite concerns from scientists about continued bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), a report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science “reveals that coral cover has not only recovered but across two-thirds of the reef it is now at its highest level in 36 years of observations“. Clark wrote that “the environmental movement can [not] quite bring itself to celebrate the result of the latest survey”, and that media coverage of the report was “an object lesson in how environmental news is driven only by misery”.

Clark wrote an article for the Spectatorwhere he argued that if governments look at ways of decreasing single-use plastic bags then they should also look at other materials and ‘bags for life’ and said that environment policymaking “tends to dart between fashionable issues, ignoring complexities”. 77 Ross Clark. “ The great plastic panic,” Spectator, January 20, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.

Contrary to Clark’s claim, climate adaptation is a major aspect of the global response to climate change.Clark wrote an article for The Telegraph which criticised a report by climate science journal Nature Geoscience, which had claimed that changes in the Atlantic current system could lead to parts of Europe experiencing much colder winters by the end of the 21st Century. 49 Ross Clark. “ Why is there always a round of climate change scaremongering after the weather changes?” The Telegraph, February 26, 2021. Archived March 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/EoddL

This devastating and detailed demolition of the case for committing Britain to Net Zero should be compulsory reading for everybody in government and the media. Ross Clark is relentless in his pursuit of facts" Ross Clark. “ The trouble with Greta Thunberg,” Spectator, April 23, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. The article concludedthat, “we are still a long way from efficient CCS, but there is nothing to say that it can’t outflank technologies such as hydrogen and battery storage, to become a large part of a transition to zero carbon. So, no, it is not a foregone conclusion that oil companies will be brought down and their assets stranded – even if Greenpeace would very much like them tobe.”Anyone who claims that Dorian, or any other hurricane, is a product of climate change and asserts that it would not have happened, or would have been less damaging, without man-made climate change does not have science on their side. On the contrary, it is they who are denying the evidence.” Clark also cited an article written by Michael Shellenberger for Forbes Magazine advocating for the development of nuclear energy as opposed to renewables, which has since been removed. 55 Graham Readfearn. “ The environmentalist’s apology: how Michael Shellenberger unsettled some of his prominent supporters,” The Guardian, July 4, 2020. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ycJZs spiked is free for all to read. But to keep it that way, we ask loyal readers like you to support our work. Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won’t Even Save the Planet), Swift Press, 2023 Clark also called for green-minded rebel MPs to push for “increasing investment in gas”, before concluding that the so-called “rebel MPs” should “leave [onshore wind] well alone”.