Global warming sorted?
It is unusual for legislation to have such immediate effect. The debate was scarce concluded on the Global warming legislation at Westminster, when the October snows started to fall. There’s a response for you....
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Is this what global warming is like?
I look out of my window to see my garden frozen solid, covered in frost and snow. It is April 7th, and I have just turned the heating up. Will the government please give us some accurate figures of temperature trends over the last 100 years, given the disputes we read about over the...
My Daily Telegraph article on the green revolution as I sent them
The Telegraph amended this and added a headline without my consent. The vast ambition of the net zero policies envisages most people switching their heating to electricity, their travel to bicycles and electric cars, and their diets to vegetarian options. It certainly needs the wholesale conversion of electricity generation from coal,oil and gas to...
Net zero
Some people writing in want me to challenge the idea behind net zero policies. They believe the climate is not warming, or they believe it is but this is not brought about by manmade CO 2. They query the climate models, pointing out past times when the models have not forecast correctly. They ask...
Stop the bossing about
The continuing unpopularity of Green candidates for Parliament and most Councils is a notable feature of the UK, only surpassed in the US. Their main preoccupation to get us to net zero is now however written into most political party programmes to a lesser extent. The Democrats in the US are very keen and...
Green campaigners encounter consumer scepticism
Electric cars are not selling well to individual buyers. Few people want to buy a heat pump. Green campaigners insist these products are essential to save the planet. They plan further taxes subsidies, regulations and bans to force people to buy things they do not want or cannot afford. To succeed the green revolution...
Some of the ways to net zero will take us in the wrong direction
I know a few people who write in think it is wrong to be trying to get to net zero as they do not think manmade CO 2 is such a problem. They point to warming periods before man made CO 2 and to the role of sun cycles, water vapour and natural CO...
Stop the net zero policies that will add to CO2 and damage the UK economy
I have long been arguing that the UK government should not be taxing, regulating and banning its way to net zero, as that will collapse business here, lead to more imports, and fail to save the world as they wish. I have argued that the Green revolution can only work when it is a...
We mourn the loss of a great man, Nigel Lawson
I mourn the passing of Nigel Lawson. He gave great service and lifted the UK economy after the bruising experiences of the 1970 s. He showed that lower tax rates, more competition and nationalised industry reform boosts living standards and opportunities for the many. In 1983 I was appointed Head of Margaret Thatcher’s...
The elite does not like debate or challenge
Recent history shows it is very difficult for Prime Ministers and Ministers to challenge the internationalist orthodoxy even in a relatively strong and well based democracy like the UK. I do not buy into silly conspiracy theories that the world is run by a couple of billionaires who enforce their views on world governments....