Monday-Tuesday blog
Sometimes on Sundays I watch the Laura Kuensberg programme on the BBC while working out in my gym. Last Sunday the whole programme as about how Britain was ‘fighting’ climate change’. Almost all the participants, especially Kuensberg, bleated and moaned and complained that Britain risked losing its position as the world leader in reducing CO2 emissions. The one voice of sanity was businessman, Luke Johnson, who pointed out that due to Net Zero the UK’s energy prices were five times those in China and twice those in the US and that this risked leading to deindustrialisation and national bankruptcy. Of course, he was ignored by all the other participants.
So let’s briefly remind ourselves of the facts:
Fact 1: The UK has halved its CO2 emissions since the 1980s :
Fact 2: This has been achieved by destroying much of British manufacturing:
Fact 3: This has, of course, resulted in a massive loss of manufacturing jobs:
The most recent examples of this economic seppuku were at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland where 400 of the 500 workers will be fired as the refinery is closed due to the UK’s high energy costs (thanks to Net Zero) and converted into an oil-importing terminal and at Port Talbot in Wales where around 2,000 workers will lose their jobs as the blast furnaces are shut and replaced by inferior electric-arc furnaces in order to reduce CO2 emissions to save the planet from what UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, calls “global boiling”.
The mind-boggling stupidity behind the UK’s economic hari-kari (so beloved by our idiotic politicians and the BBC) is the ludicrous way the UK’s CO2 emissions are measured. If a ton of steel is produced in the UK, it counts towards the UK’s CO2 emissions. But if that ton of steel is produced in China from steelworks powered by coal-fired power stations and then expensively shipped around the world to Britain, it’s not included in the UK’s CO2 emissions.
Sorry, but sometimes I despair at the imbecility of our politicians and mainstream media.