If political, social and economic realities are not factored into their design, policies designed to tackle climate change will simply fail to be adopted and won’t save us anyway. In a Spectator Australia article titled “The truth about Britain’s ‘record-breaking’ heatwave”, Clark argued that: 39 Ross Clark.

In a Spectator columntitled “Climate change isn’t responsible for Australia’s hailstorms”, Clark wrote: 25 Ross Clark.They love to preach about all the things we’ll need to give up and all the sacrifices we should make. I had thought David Attenborough would be above resorting to the subtle propaganda which others have been propagating, linking every adverse weather event to climate change. If the Government wants to encourage investment in native oil and gas production – and it should – it needs to […] give the industry reassurances that it is not going to be regulated out of existence by net zero commitments”. Lawson first laid out his “scepticism” about climate science in a 2006 paper, “An Appeal to Reason”, for the Centre for Policy Studies, a Thatcherite thinktank.

Having considered these points, and many others that Ross makes in his book, I started to think more broadly about the state of the ‘debate’ on climate change, and that was the most alarming thing in some ways. Clark began a Spectator article titled “How did climate doomsters get the Great Barrier Reef so wrong? Clark discussed his views on the Left and the term “climate change denial” in a column for the Spectator: 17 Ross Clark. Clark wrote an article for The Telegraph questioning the costs of the government’s decarbonisation policies, intended to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.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. He dismisses wind and solar as being unaffordable because he thinks large-scale energy storage will remain prohibitively expensive.

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”.We should never take too seriously anyone who says that if we keep carbon emissions to x million tonnes, we will limit the rise in global temperatures by y degrees”.

He is the author of several books, including How to Label a Goat: the silly Rules and Regulations that are strangling Britain and The Great Before, a novel which satirised the pessimism of the Green movement. Clark arguedthat schoolchildren involved in the climate strikes were “traumatised” by documentaries “stitched together to give the impression of impending doom”. Brendan O’Neill: The eco-elites love to lecture people about their emissions, even as they fly around the world on private jets.I will concede that when a book against Net Zero – the legally binding government target to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050 – was proposed to me, I was a little wary. Instead of still struggling to reach its pre-pandemic high it seems that the UK economy in fact surpassed 2019 levels two years ago. Clark wrote an article for The Daily Mail criticising the government’s plans to replace 600,000 gas boilers with heat pumps by 2028 as part of an attempt to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.