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

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O’Neill: Just 30 or 40 years ago, radicals in the West wanted to help the developing world achieve our standards of living. Now, they want to stop them from developing to protect themselves. How has that shift happened? And what can we do about it? In a Spectator column, Clark wrote about how Extinction Rebellion have been given an “easy ride” by the government and commentators, and that their protests were “attempting to bypass democracy”. 29 Ross Clark. “ Extinction Rebellion shouldn’t be given such an easy ride,” Spectator, April 17, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Ross Clark. “ I’m no fan of the Chinese Communist Party – but on the environment, they’ve got it right,” The Telegraph, November 3, 2021. Archived December 17, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/WlM6O

Clark wrote that despite concerns from scientists about continued bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), a report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science “reveals that coral cover has not only recovered but across two-thirds of the reef it is now at its highest level in 36 years of observations“. Clark wrote that “the environmental movement can [not] quite bring itself to celebrate the result of the latest survey”, and that media coverage of the report was “an object lesson in how environmental news is driven only by misery”. 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 The Government’s Net Zero target is nothing if not ambitious. It involves nothing less than decarbonising the British economy – energy, manufacturing, transport and agriculture included – all in the space of just a few decades. 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/oRFbuI think that, in most people’s minds, it was as simple as: climate change is bad, something needs to be done about it, Net Zero is something, let’s do that. My thoughts on it had amounted to little more than that, to be honest. 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' - Michael Kelly, former Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge

In an article for The Spectator titled “What BP’s soaring profits tell us about our dependence on oil”, Clark criticised former Bank of England governor Mark Carney’s prediction that “once climate change becomes a defining issue for financial stability, it may already be too late”. 36 Ross Clark. “ What BP’s soaring profits tell us about our dependence on oil”, The Spectator, November 1, 2022. Archived November 1, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/SKClx 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. The Daily Mail published an article by Clark titled “My inconvenient truth: Ross Clark accepts that the planet IS warming. 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”. 21 Ross Clark. “ My inconvenient truth: Ross Clark accepts that the planet IS warming. 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,” Daily Mail, January 21, 2023. Archived January 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.is/RTbU2 Ross Clark. “ From Ethiopian girl bands to Kenyans listening to toads… how staff at Dfid spent YOUR millions,” Daily Mail, June 16, 2020, Archived September 28, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/4KzU7 In a Spectator Australia article titled “Britain isn’t ready for onshore wind”, Clark wrote: 23 Ross Clark. “ Britain isn’t ready for onshore wind,” Spectator Australia, November 29, 2022. Archived December 9, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.is/AaAIdThis 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 Clark agreedwith comments by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, claiming that climate change was unrelated to the country’s bushfires. 63 Ross Clark. “ Scott Morrison is right – Australia’s bushfires aren’t down to climate change,” Spectator, December 23, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.