Net Zero is Being Mugged by Reality and the People Are Waking Up

As the realities of Net Zero – sky-high energy prices, the end of flying and red meat – hit home for the general public, the backlash is building and the tide is turning. The post Net Zero is Being Mugged by Reality and the People Are Waking Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

The Net Zero bandwagon was always going to grind to a halt when it bumped up against hard realities. As Abraham Lincoln observed, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. To which the physicist Richard Feynman added the important rejoinder that you can’t fool nature either.

The eco-zealots in the think tanks, the civil service and the Green Blob have been trying to do both. Consider, for example, the oft-repeated claim that wind and solar power are cheap, which is demonstrably false, and carefully overlooks the fact that a renewables-dominated grid would require trillions of pounds of electricity storage to make it function without backup. As a result, we have seen gigawatts of wind and solar power installed, and the slow strangulation of investment in conventional energy sources. However, nature, refusing to be taken in by all the claims of ‘cheap renewables’, has responded with 20 years of relentless electricity price rises.

The silver lining to the very dark cloud of the Ukraine war and the energy cost crisis that followed is that most people now realise that


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