The climate scaremongers: Net Zero, a multi-billion-pound racket built on baloney
PAUL HOMEWOOD
A REPORT from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has claimed that the British way of life is under threat from climate change.
According to the press release: ‘The Climate Change Committee today publishes A Well-Adapted UK. This new report sets out a comprehensive package of solutions to address the growing impacts of climate change affecting every aspect of life in the UK.
‘The country’s independent climate advisers identify better cooling, flood protection and a more secure water supply as the most critical priorities to protect the UK from the three biggest climate risks – heat, flooding and drought.
‘We are already seeing disruption today and without action these risks will escalate. By 2050, 92 per cent of homes are likely to overheat, peak river flows will be up to 45 per cent higher and water supply shortfalls could exceed five billion litres per day.
‘The cost of inaction is far greater than the cost of acting now. The Committee’s proposals require investment of around £11billion a year, split broadly evenly between public and private funding.
‘Without adaptation the cost of climate change to public welfare is predicted to rise to between 1-5 per cent of UK GDP by 2050 under a 2C global warming level, equivalent to £60-£260billion per year.’
The report specifically claims that by 2050:
- Heatwaves could regularly exceed 40C and reach 45C
- Record hot summers like 2025 will be the norm
- There will be a growing flood risk
- Storms will have stronger winds
- Summer will be drier, leading to drought and water shortages
High temperatures caused the deaths of more than 3,000 people in the summer of 2022
- Heat-related excess deaths could rise to 10,000 a year
- 10million properties will be at risk from flooding by 2050
- Heat is the deadliest single climate-related health threat in the UK
It’s the same load of baloney we are used to seeing from the CCC, all designed to scare us into accepting the price of Net Zero.
None of its claims however have any basis in fact. The country may be slightly warmer, but there is no evidence that our weather is any more extreme, our health any worse or that we are economically any worse off because of it.
Worst of all is that their projections are still based around the discredited set of climate projections published by the Met Office in 2022 – known as the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18). The Met Office projections were modelled on the most extreme emissions scenario, RCP8.5, which has now been officially dumped as being implausible.
Yes, the same faulty projections that forecast summers would be 5C hotter in 2070, summer rainfall 45 per cent lower on average and winter rainfall 39 per cent higher, and sea levels would soon rise by a metre.
The CCC report makes it clear that adaptation plans must be based on these high-emission scenarios: ‘At the high end of possibilities, reaching 4C above preindustrial levels by the end of the century cannot yet be ruled out. This should be considered as part of effective adaptation planning.’
Perhaps they should have a word with the IPCC, which has ruled it out.
Let’s look at some of its claims more closely.
Heatwaves
It forecast 45C heatwaves, based on a rise in the hottest temperatures in recent years:
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Most of these temperatures however were recorded at poorly sited weather stations, such as the 40C set at RAF Coningsby in 2022, where the thermometer is yards from the runway. They bear little relevance to what is happening in the country as a whole.
A far more accurate picture can be gleaned using the Central England Temperature series. Apart from that exceptional day four years ago, there is nothing obviously alarming happening:
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You cannot make serious long-term projections based on a single day’s weather. Take 2022 away, and it is clear that a multi-degree rise in hottest days is out of the question.
As for ‘record hot summers’, the hottest by far, in terms of daily maximums, remains the summer of 1976.
Droughts
Far from summer droughts getting worse, the rainfall record tells the opposite story:
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The supposed drought last summer was only the 28th driest on record.
10million Properties at Risk of Flooding
Another baseless claim.
Floods have not been getting worse and the number of properties affected every year is numbered in the thousands, not millions.
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Stronger Storms
In the last couple of decades, storms have been getting weaker, not stronger, as the Met Office acknowledges:
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Heat-Related Deaths
The CCC claims that high temperatures caused the deaths of more than 3,000 people in the summer of 2022. This is bogus.
The Office for National Statistics carried out a detailed study of that summer and found no evidence of excess deaths. Instead, although there was a short-term spike in deaths on the hottest days, the death rate quickly dropped below average in the days afterwards. As they noted, people simply died a few days earlier than expected.
Heat is the deadliest single climate-related health threat in the UK
No, it is not.
Winter deaths far exceed summer ones. In 2024, excess deaths in winter were more than 27,000. A warmer climate will reduce that number and as such will be hugely beneficial to health.
The idea that our climate would be any noticeably different in 25 years’ time is ridiculous. It certainly has not changed a jot in the last 25 years.
We are expected to believe that a slightly warmer climate will be a calamity. Whatever effect a few days of heat in summer may have, it is certainly dwarfed by the impacts of cold in winter – disruption to transport, hospital overloads, schools shut because of snow. The list goes on and on.
FOOTNOTE: Baroness Brown is the chair of the CCC Adaptation Committee, which wrote this report. For some time now, she has been a director of Ceres Power (developers of green hydrogen) and Orsted (a Danish wind power company). Both of these companies stand to make a lot of money out of the climate scare. Pure coincidence, of course!
This article (The climate scaremongers: Net Zero, a multi-billion-pound racket built on baloney) was created and published by Conservative Woman and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Paul Homewood
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