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

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Clark, Ross (2006). How to Label a Goat: The silly rules and regulations that are strangling Britain. Harriman House. ISBN 978-1897597958. 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/t0dV7 Clark argued that Extinction Rebellion ( XR) have been allowed various privileges by police powers due to having “deep tentacles inside the establishment” in a column for the Spectator. 58 Ross Clark. “ The police are in thrall to Extinction Rebellion in Cambridge,” Spectator, February 17, 2020. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.

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 In response to David Attenborough’s BBC documentary Climate Change: The Facts, Clark wrote an articlearguing that the broadcaster “cannot be allowed to get away with the propaganda element of his latest piece”. He wrote: 73 Ross Clark. “ What David Attenborough’s climate change show didn’t tell you,” Spectator, April 20, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.In an article for The Spectator, Clark disputed whether the British energy system lasting for two months without coal would end the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, writing: “the coal hard reality is that we are still a long, long way away from ending our dependence on fossil fuels. The contribution from wind and solar, in particular, is hugely inflated in the popular imagination.” 57 Ross Clark. “ Our coal-free months aren’t as impressive as they seem,” Spectator, June 10, 2020. Archived September 28, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/IwYHy Clark also wrote that COP26 would contribute to China becoming the world’s main economic superpower and that it would continue to be the investor of choice for “developing countries in Africa.” He also claimed that “no one really has any idea of how Britain can reach this [net zero] target without crashing the economy” and that “thanks to the Climate Change Act, our economy now has a very large weight attached to its feet”.

spiked is free for all to read. But to keep it that way, we ask loyal readers like you to support our work.In a comment piece for the Telegraph, Ross Clark criticised the UK government’s plan to install 600,000 heat pumps by 2028 and ban fossil fuel based heating systems by 2035, arguing that “the Government simply hasn’t thought through its net zero strategy”. 19 Ross Clark. “ Just admit that Britain isn’t ready for heat pumps,” The Telegraph, March 15, 2023. Archived March 15, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/bBFHR Ross Clark is a British journalistwho has written for the Spectator, the Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, and the Sun. 2 “ Ross Clark,” Harriman House. Archived April 3, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/xOgeY