The End is Nigh for Net Zero – These Polls Prove It
A few weeks back, I wrote about a YouGov/Times poll that showed a “soaring number of Britons” believe that “global warming [is] exaggerated”. A few other polls have been published recently which also show how the public’s appetite for ever-rising energy bills is fast being depleted.
According to polling data for the Left-leaning More in Common think tank, the public’s concern for climate change and the environment has plunged over the last year. Just 13% of respondents put it in their top three “big issues”. Reform voters were the least likely to share the green perspective, with just 4% choosing it. 11% of Conservative voters and 20% of Labour voters put it in their top three, whereas Lib Dems were keener, at 24%. Surprisingly, only 34% of Green voters think it is a major issue, compared to the others, behind the cost of living (59%) and supporting the NHS (40%).
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Thanks – there is no logic or support for Netard zero based on Globaloneywarming from human emitted plant food, 20 parts per million.
However, Agenda 2030 is very clear. It will simply be imposed.
Digital IDs are a part of it.
So too will a new plandemic, a fake virus emanating from a pangolin’s arse I assume.
They have 4.5 years left.
Fascists crush. They don’t dialogue or convince.
Very true.
On the numbers:
“The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions and they are heading down a path of total destruction.”
“In the US we still have radicalized environmentalists … they want to kill all the cows.”
“All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their country’s fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success.
If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail”
Are those the Donald’s words? He does have a way of getting to the crux of the issue.
Yes – right in the faces of the UN fascist scum.
Thanks for this.
Ideally we would bury the whole Big Lie, but meantime the more we link “Green” crap to higher bills and lower standards of living, the less people will care about being “Green”.
It depends on the phrasing of the question. Do I think Nett zero is a scam? Yes. Do I think AGW is a scam? Yes, its a scam. Do I think that we should minimise pollution while maximising economic growth.? Yes. Do I think that we should treat the Earths resources with care and use them sustainably if at all possible, without compromising economic growth.? Yes.
Exactly my position as well.
I suppose a fairer question would have been “how much extra would you be prepared to pay to implement the Net Zero agenda £0, £10 per month, £50 per month, £100 per month, £150 per month”. There appears to be nothing in the survey equation to indicate the downside of Net Zero – higher costs and intermittent supply.
It depends what you mean by Net Zero. IWHT if there were really a climate emergency our rulers would go for nuclear energy. Expensive, but not doing so would be more expensive.
It will probably take the lights going off to wake the majority up!
Frequent power cuts for long periods cannot be ignored.
Reading about what happened in Spain/Portugal will not be the same as living through it, especially when all their phones run out of power and can’t be recharged – then they’ll worry!
Iberia was lucky – their grid was back running very quickly and at the cost of only 8 lives. The Texas grid failure directly and indirectly killed around 700. Nobody knows exactly how many will die during a grid blackout here as we cannot be sure when it will happen and neither do we know how long it will last.
“Hello – is that YouGov?”
“Yes, Good Morning, how may I help you?”
“We would like you to run an opinion poll for us”
“Certainly – what result do you want?”
The ECIU should be closed down by trading standards for possessing no intelligence whatsoever and for not understanding economics, well as the Far Left why would they. Nothing that comes from them is ever true.
It is time we really get across the fact that windmills and sun temples are far more expensive than reliable hydrocarbon and nuclear generation. By accident, the subsidy system is complicated so extracting exact costs is not straightforward but having seen the accounts for one of the windmill owners in 2024 they made nearly double the income from selling electricity from selling ROC paperworks.
Interesting to see where Ofgem’s brainless idea to have lower Standing Charge tariffs available in January goes given the hike in the charge due to combatting the increased costs of unreliable generation and remote generation.
“The poll found that “more than half of voters who planned to vote for Reform UK in local elections on May 1st support policies to stop climate change and put in place targets accordingly to keep the UK on track”.”
Do you think racism is bad? Yes.
Do you support racist policies to deport immigrants? No.
That’s the way it’s done.
And as my grandma used to say, talk’s cheap, pay no heed to what people say. watch what they do… aka revealed preferences.
Everyone supports “the latest thing” as long as somebody else is paying for it. Support for Net Zero goes negative when people are asked are they willing to accept to pay more on their electricity bills to achieve it.