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

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Clark suggestedthat the reason many people in Britain would describe the majority of the world’s population as living in poverty is partly due to the “fantasy” that wealthy lifestyles in the West is fuelling climate change. 76 Ross Clark. “ What the rise of the middle class reveals about the global poverty myth,” Spectator, October 3, 2018. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Clark, Ross (2017). War Against Cash: the plot to empty your wallet and own your financial future - and why you must fight it. Harriman House. ISBN 978-0857196255. 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

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. Yes, Rolls-Royce has proved you can get an electric plane into the air – but that’s only practical for a light aircraft flying a few miles. It’s a world away from a passenger jet crossing the Atlantic. Trinity Hall, Cambridge (subject unknown). 1 “ Trinity Hall Review 2018/19,” Trinity Hall. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Reason Foundation (6 November 2013). "Newsday's Lane Filler and The Times' Ross Clark Win Reason Foundation's Bastiat Prize". Reason Foundation.Until then, Britain was legally committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent (relative to 1990) by 2050. The new legislation went the whole hog – with net zero suddenly demanded by that date. Yet this huge change was nodded through by the House of Commons without even a vote, and barely a whimper. 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.” Clark, Ross (2012). A Broom Cupboard of One's Own: The housing crisis and how to solve it (eBook). Harriman House. ISBN 978-0857192967.

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. In a Spectator Australia article titled “Do we really need a GCSE focused on saving the planet?”, Clark wrote that the new GCSE in natural history is likely to be “yet another fashionable, soft subject which is designed to indoctrinate rather than educate”. 41 Ross Clark. “ Do we really need a GCSE focused on saving the planet?”, Spectator Australia. April 18, 2022. Archived October 29, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/t0dV7A UK electricity grid powered entirely by wind, even were that possible, would still be responsible for 330,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year. 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

In a Spectator article titled “The true cost of renewable energy”, Clark wrote that “the price of green energy is a form of terrible segregation, where the rich will have access to light and heat, and those who need it most, the poor, will shiver in the dark”. 34 Ross Clark. “ The true cost of renewable energy”, The Spectator, November 12, 2022. Archived November 10, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/KA4K9 A Boeing 777 has a maximum take-off weight of 350 tonnes. Of this, 145 tonnes is the airliner itself, another 145 tonnes the fuel and 60 tonnes the passengers, luggage and freight. The batteries needed to replace the 145 tonnes of fuel are going to weigh 9,700 tonnes, increasing the total weight of the aircraft to just under 10,000 tonnes — the weight of the Eiffel Tower! Clark wrote an article in The Spectator criticising Hope Not Hate, an activist group which had campaigned to make climate science denial a hate crime. He stated that “the very use of the word ‘denial’ is an attempt to put anyone sceptical of climate alarmism in the same pigeonhole as holocaust deniers,” adding: “Climate change is becoming the next woke battleground.” 54 Ross Clark. “ The next culture war will be over climate change,” The Spectator, July 4, 2020. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ HDoe4 That might be a small proportion of the emissions from fossil fuel-generated electricity, but it shows the difficulties in trying to get all the way to net zero. O’Brien, Neil; Clark, Ross (2010), The Renewal of Government, A manifesto for whoever wins the election (PDF), Policy Exchange

It often asserts that, far from costing us, the net zero target will end up enriching us by unleashing a rush of wealth-creating innovation. The market, somehow, will provide. This is broadly the position of the Tory Government. Both these wings have lost touch with reality. The first, because it overstates climate science and because it fails to grasp that people – the poor, especially – are not going to accept being made poorer. In 2012, Clark's musical Shot at Dawn was performed as a workshop at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. The musical was a success and was later restaged as a full-scale professional production in 2014 at Upstairs at The Gatehouse in Highgate, north London and the Mumford Theatre, Cambridge. [11] He also wrote, with Martin Coslett, The Perfect City, which was performed at the Etcetera Theatre in March 2013. [12] In 2015, the musical Shot at Dawn was renamed The White Feather and performed at the Union Theatre in Southwark. [13] Personal [ edit ]

Clark was born in Worcester and brought up in East Kent, where he attended the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys. He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. [4] Career [ edit ]

Electric cars are another case in point. They are very much the pin-up of net zero, but when you bore down into the detail you find that, because of the metals that have to be mined for the batteries, their manufacture involves more greenhouse gas emissions than does a petrol car. 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) But these days, a storm is no longer simply a storm; it is a portent of global doom. The ever politically correct and self-righteous Snow tweeted: ‘Trees and branches affected by climate change have slowed our rail journey. What an irony! What a message! We MUST change! Dare we hope that we shall?’ In a January 2023 Daily Mail article, Clark wrote: 15 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