In a Spectator column, Clark claimed that Britain’s growing reliance on renewable energy will make power cuts more likely, criticising wind power in particular. He concluded by writing: 66 Ross Clark. “ How renewable energy makes power cuts more likely,” Spectator, August 10, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. 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 In a Spectator Australia article titled “The truth about Britain’s ‘record-breaking’ heatwave”, Clark argued that: 39 Ross Clark. “ The truth about Britain’s ‘record-breaking’ heatwave’’, Spectator Australia, June 17, 2022. Archived October 28, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/rQHkw

Clark defended GM technology in an article for the Spectatorsaying: 82 Ross Clark. “ Why I’m boycotting Waitrose,” Spectator, November 2, 2016. Archived April 4, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.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. Arguing that net zero “could yet prove a devastating hostage to fortune,” Clark said: “Voters, aligned in principle with climate campaigners, may well have a different view when they realise they could end up paying many thousands of pounds, or even face losing their homes.” 46 Ross Clark. “ Net Zero’s spiralling costs will hit the poorest hardest,” The Telegraph, April 5, 2021. Archived April 6, 2021 . Archive URL: https://archive.vn/OyMC3 Last summer’s heatwave, which set a new high-temperature record in Britain and sparked wildfires in south-western France, became a ‘heat apocalypse’. A Norfolk garden where a fire broke out became a scene ‘like Armageddon’. For the benefit of climate activists who live under the delusion that anyone who fails to share their belief must be in the pay of big oil, I am not part of the bonanza – I have avoided investing directly in fossil fuel companies for several years specifically so that no one can level that claim at me.” He also stated: “In America as in Britain, debate is becoming fixated on decarbonising energy without thinking enough about resilience.” Clark arguedthat politicians are “pathetically in thrall” to Extinction Rebellion and expressed his frustration that the group and its demands have been “indulged”. He also wrote that if MPs were to follow the demands of the protest group, they would “ruin the economy while simply exporting Britain’s carbon emissions to countries which have not burdened themselves with legally-binding targets”. 69 Ross Clark. “ Why are our MPs so pathetically in thrall to Extinction Rebellion?” Spectator, June 20, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.

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 Clark argued that: “if it involved any other subject, the news that the Government hid estimates of the true cost of one of its policies would be a scandal.” Phew! The dangers of global warming are receding. Admittedly that is not how most news sources are reporting the publication of the latest IPCC report this morning. But it is the logical conclusion of reading coverage of the issue over the past decade.”Our Boeing 777 isn’t going to be taking off – indeed, it won’t even get on to the runway. It will have collapsed at the airport stand. Would Britain be right […] to pay reparations to developing countries on the basis that the industrial revolution started in Britain and we, therefore, have high historic carbon emissions? Absolutely not, and for several reasons.” However, the report stated that while “region-wide hard coral cover” had recovered and reached “the highest level recorded in the past 36 years of monitoring” in two regions of the GBR, the reefs “continue to be exposed to cumulative stressors”, and that “while the observed recovery offers good news for the overall state of the GBR, there is increasing concern for its ability to maintain this state”. 38 Australian Institute of Marine Science. “ Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Condition 2021/22,” August 4, 2022. Archived October 28, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/YBIAS

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.” 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. 45 Ross Clark. “ ROSS CLARK: How absurd you may be banned from selling your own home if you don’t meet draconian new eco rules (which just happen to cost the earth),” The Daily Mail, April 6, 2021. Archived April 6, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8XSiF Cambridge News (1 July 2003). "City's depressing housing under fire". Cambridge News. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013.Then there are problems of range and shortage of charging points. It has been estimated that if all cars were to go electric, Britain would need to have between 280,000 and 480,000 public charging points. At present, there are just 25,000.