Flying, too, will become a preserve of the rich, since aviation is going to be one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise. Planes might even have to be relegated to museums.” 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”. Ross Clark (born 12 September 1966) is a British journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Spectator, The Times and other publications. [1] 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. [2] He is a frequent critic of British government policy, especially on its interventions in the housing market. [3] Early life [ edit ] 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 Are we going to have to give up flying to save the planet? Many climate campaigners have been saying so for years, but now Sustainable Aviation – a trade body which represents the UK aviation industry – seems to agree, at least in the case of less well-off passengers.

Ross Clark. “ New York’s fight against the oil giants is political posturing at its worst,” Spectator, January 11, 2018. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. After arguing that Britain’s energy crisis “has been made much worse by energy policies which for a decade and a half have doggedly pursued the objective of cutting carbon emissions without any regard to the costs”, Clark also claimed that the Government had “deprived Britain of what could have been by now a very productive native shale gas industry”. He argued that efforts to decarbonise the economy had contributed to such events, stating: “We invest in more and more intermittent forms of energy such as wind and solar while the provision of energy storage lags well behind, resulting in several close shaves recently as the wind dropped and the sun went down.”Ross Clark. “ Don’t blame all ‘weird’ weather on climate change,” Spectator, December 3, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. The article, which featured excerpts from his upcoming book, argued that “there is virtually no ill in the world for which climate change has not been blamed” and called the UK’s Climate Change Act – which introduced the UK’s target of net zero emissions by 2050 – a “very large bomb” and “ludicrous”. 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' - Matt Ridley author of How Innovation Works and Co-Author of Viral: The search for the origin of Covid-19 In a Spectator column, Clark described the various tree planting pledges by British political parties as looking like a “Monty Python sketch”. 64 Ross Clark. “ This manic tree-planting contest has gotten out of hand,” Spectator, November 28, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Ross Clark is a leader writer and columnist who has written for The Spectator for three decades. His books include Not Zeroand The Road to Southend Pier.

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.” In an article titled “Good news: we now have until 2030 to save the Earth”, Clark argued that IPCC reports in 2018, which told governments they had 12 years to avert climate catastrophe, were a good sign, as previous organisations had given a stricter deadline: 18 Ross Clark. “ Good news: we now have until 2030 to save the earth,” Spectator, October 8, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Clark describedreports published by the UK government’s official advisor the Committee of Climate Change as documents that “trot out the familiar scary predictions and somewhat dubious statistics”. 88 Ross Clark. “ Waving while drowning,” Spectator, September 25, 2010. Archived April 4, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Affiliations Clark has defended fossil fuel companiesas the “unsung heroes” of the modern world, and argued that criticism of them is an attempt to “palm off responsibility”. 8 Ross Clark. “ Don’t blame oil and coal companies for climate change,” Spectator, October 10, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.Clark wrote an article for The Telegraph criticising the Climate Change Committee ( CCC)’s advice to the government to ban gas boilers by 2033, referring to it as “yet another pointless eco-catastrophe.” 51 Ross Clark. “ A ban on gas boilers would be yet another pointless eco catastrophe,” The Telegraph, December 9, 2020. Archived December 14, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ SXHl1 Clark added: To hear today’s reaction to the news that Michael Gove has granted permission to build Britain’s first deep coal mine for a generation is to step through the looking glass into a bizarre world where a Conservative government is considered evil for helping to create mining jobs in a de-industrialised region – and the ‘enlightened’ position is to eradicate the very last traces of the coal industry.” Clark also used the example of damage done by snow and freezing temperatures, as opposed to heatwaves and wildfires, to undermine a rise in global temperatures. What is the difference? The Netherlands is wealthy and Bangladesh is poor. The Netherlands can afford to build sea walls and to redesign towns and its landscape to cope with the water. Bangladesh can’t – it’s only just starting to think about these issues. In a Telegraph article comment piece titled “A windfall tax on oil and gas is just Left-wing populism”, Clark argued: “When Starmer calls for a windfall tax what he is really saying is: I want to cut your pension to feed yet more government expenditure”. 40 Ross Clark. “ A windfall tax on oil and gas is just Left-wing populism”, The Telegraph, April 28, 2022. Archived August 2, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/JvFiT

This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. ( November 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) And that’s the point of Forum: to publish the books that rationally challenge groupthink, to ensure that important contributors to the key debates of our time who have unfashionable views aren’t closed down. I think that we will undoubtedly be doing that by publishing Ross’s excellent book. He also stated: “In America as in Britain, debate is becoming fixated on decarbonising energy without thinking enough about resilience.” Cambridge News (1 July 2003). "City's depressing housing under fire". Cambridge News. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. This is a must-read for those in involved in the climate debate and devising climate policy. Not Zero lays out the litany of internal contradictions implicit in the policy of Net Zero"

It is right to build new homes to high energy efficiency standards, but it is sadly all too easy to predict the result of a rushed scheme to retrofit all existing homes to make them zero carbon. Homeowners will be fleeced, left with damp, chilly homes. Worse, the costs are bound to fall disproportionately on the lowest- income homeowners.” 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