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

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The thing that made the biggest impression on me is that in the rush to achieve Net Zero, it’s almost inevitable that enormous costs are going to be placed on those least able to bear it. If you give over a lot more land to tree planting and rewilding rather than agricultural production, food prices are going to go up. Relying exclusively on renewables, given the cost of storage and the intermittency problem, will push up energy costs even further. Running an electric car is going to be a lot more expensive than a petrol car. Heat pumps will be more expensive than gas boilers. The list goes on. It dawned on me that there is a real a risk that the push to achieve Net Zero creates a two-tier society where the wealthy can still afford to fly, drive and not shiver, but the poor increasingly cannot. When the subject is climate change, the green lobby never stops telling us that we must all accept the weight of scientific opinion, and that failure to do so is equivalent to being a flat-Earther. Yet change the subject to GM foods and the green lobby doesn’t want to know about the science at all. They still expect us to believe that GM crops will make us ill and ruin the environment – in spite of the vast weight of scientific work establishing that they are safe.” Clark was born in Worcester and brought up in East Kent, where he attended the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys. He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. [4] Career [ edit ]

Oil and coal companies are the unsung heroes of the greatest period in the improvement of global living standards theworld has ever known.” Clark argued that Extinction Rebellion ( XR) have been allowed various privileges by police powers due to having “deep tentacles inside the establishment” in a column for the Spectator. 58 Ross Clark. “ The police are in thrall to Extinction Rebellion in Cambridge,” Spectator, February 17, 2020. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Commenting on the government’s decision to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, Clark wrote: “The switch to electric vehicles promises to make life easier for elite motorists, who will enjoy emptier roads, while pricing ordinary drivers off the road.” He also described plans to install 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028 as “just the latest indication of the massive costs that are going to be dumped on ordinary people.”In an article for The Daily Mail, Clark commented on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030, disputing the efficacy of electric cars in reducing carbon emissions. Clark wrote: “Manufacturing electric cars also creates far more carbon emissions than making petrol or diesel ones. So even if they are powered by ‘green’ electricity, you will have to drive thousands of miles before you actually save any carbon.” 52 Ross Clark. “ Electric cars may promise us a greener future but they are a non-starter until they make one I can drive to Scotland in,” Daily Mail, November 16, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/xtiwp A Broom Cupboard of One’s Own: The housing crisis and how to solve it by boosting home-ownership, Harriman House,2012

Clark wrote a columnfor the Spectator claiming schoolchildren who attend climate strikes “may be suffering from trauma”, as they are “victims of the hyperbole they have been fed”. 74 Ross Clark. “ Child climate change protestors aren’t truants, they’re traumatised,” Spectator, February 15, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.Clark wrote an article for The Spectator criticising the government’s proposals to ban the sale of new gas boilers after 2025 as part of a net zero decarbonisation strategy to be implemented by 2050. 44 Ross Clark. “ The boiler ban fiasco and the true cost of net zero,” The Spectator, 25 May 2021. Archived June 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/qRlL7 Clark, Ross (2020). The Denial: a satirical novel of climate change. Lume Books. ISBN 978-1839012105. Clark claimedthat the then hottest July day on recordregistered at Heathrow was deliberately obtained at an international airport, where there are “huge concrete aprons and planes spewing out large quantities of hot air” giving airports their own “microclimate”. 83 Ross Clark. “ Yes, this is England’s hottest July day ever. But this tells us nothing about global warming,” Spectator, July 1, 2015. Archived April 4, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. 84 “ Hottest July day ever recorded in UK,” BBC News, July 1, 2015. Archived April 4, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/iAXN8 Clark’s most recent book, Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won’t Even Save the Planet), in which he argues the UK government’s policy to reach net zero by 2050 is a “terrible mistake”, was published. 31 “ Not Zero – Ross Clark,” Swift Press. Archived February 16, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/oRFbu