The Cover-Up of the True Cost of Net Zero is Finally Being Blown Open
It has been the biggest exercise in gaslighting ever, but finally the truth is beginning to emerge.
For the last two decades, successive governments and the political establishment generally have done their utmost to cover up the fact that Net Zero will bankrupt the country and impoverish us all. Ed Miliband’s 2008 Climate Change Act, which enshrined in law an 80% cut in greenhouse gas emissions, was never costed. Neither was Theresa May’s Net Zero legislation 11 years later.
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Oh it.s 7.6 trillion now is it?
It was only 4.5 the other day!
Anyway, a trillion here a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.
But but but!
Wind generation is nine times cheaper r
than gas!
Miliband will reduce my leccy bill by £300 a year!
To say otherwise makes you a far right climate denier conspiracy theorist anti science Big Oil shill!
To say otherwise also makes you a realist, though?
I’ve just had to inject £300 into my account because gas is costing so much this winter.
‘The subsidies are increasing the cost of gas so much this winter’
The SCAM is running out of road, but those pushing it have largely achieved their objective: to rinse as much money out of “the peasants” as they possibly can.
They seem to think that a lot of rinsing is still possible so they’re trying to push it all through and avoid as much scrutiny as possible.
Yesterday on GB News with Martin Daubney they discussed the estimated 7 Trillion cost of Net Zero, but they had in the studio that Irish Climate Activist from the Independent, who disputed this and laughed that the cost of a whole lot of other stuff had to be subtracted from that figure and the true cost was ony 0.3 Trillion——-Why was Ross Clark, Andrew Montford or Kathryyn Porter not on with that McCarthy guy to explain why the cost in the trillions is more accurate than his activist claims which always favour Net Zero and anything Green? Can GB News only afford one guest to discuss this most important issue of our time that is affecting our standard of living, forcing millions into energy poverty, destroying our Industrial Base and giving us the highest electricity prices in the world?——–McCarthy was arguing that all of the Green jobs had to be subtracted from the 7 trillion figure but he conveniently forgot to mention all of the jobs in coal oil and gas that are being destroyed by this absurdity. ——-A Kathryn Porter or Ross Clark would have spotted this hypocrisy right away.
Green jobs? None exist, they are all subsidised. This has been proven in an endless cadre of studies for 20 years + reality.
The real costs of Netard zero are more than £ 7 trillion. I don’t watch GB News but assume they are the usual array of tards who can’t talk or argue.
You must add in:
Not to mention that a trillion as a word has been bandied around and overused such that its meaning has been debased and not readily understood by most ‘normal’ folks. Not many would have a clue that a column of 50 pound notes would need to be 1,243 MILES high to amount to a trillion pounds.
Wow! Thanks for that brilliant illustration!
So the 7.6 trillion figure would generate a stack of £50 notes 9,446 miles high… That’s over a third of the distance to the Moon!
!!!
Which moon? Ours is approx 240,000 miles distant.
I’m starting with a billion pounds of £50 notes being 1.243 miles, 2,188 yds, or 2 km tall …
Which green jobs are they? Please point to them and explain who is employing these people, what they do and how they can be sustained when renewable energy is clearly inadequate in both the short and long term.
Leaf-blower operators to keep the wind turbines turning on windless days!
Meanwhile across the Atlantic the Energy Secretary tells it how it is…
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/2009206277734584791
“…An absolute takedown of the whole Net Zero agenda by U.S. Energy Secretary. Britain is crying out for an energy secretary driven by rationality and not zealotry.”
Just scrap Net Naff-All.
It is a shame though that Danish Wind Farm Co Orsted has now won a case against Trump who had tried to prevent them build a wind farm off Rhode Island. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/orsted-wins-ruling-to-resume-us-wind-project-halted-by-trump/ar-AA1U513V .
I have a relative who works for this particalar project and he thought he might not have a job after Christmas. But now his job (for now is secure) needless to say, he is making a very good living out of this scam. But Orsted had to sell it shares at hugely reduced costs so all is not well in the company.
WindFarms are vile things, along with all the other disadvantages of them (the look of them, the killing of wildlife and the fact that they cannot be recycled) we now learn that balsa wood forests are being dedicated to make them.
Energy security? How secure is a wind farm in the North Sea? I would imagine that a swarm of cheap drones could destroy it in a few minutes.
Good point! And what about the UK military radar defence systems that are reportedly neutralised by the wind farm turbulence? Is that why the Globalists are pushing through with planting them along the south coast now? To weaken the military radar defences along as much of Britain’s coast as possible?
PortWind: ‘Now is the time’ for giant UK offshore wind farm – BBC News
“A renewable energy firm has said the political climate is right for a large-scale wind farm off the Devon and Dorset coast.
“Source Galileo is planning a 2GW project involving at least 100 turbines, which it said could power more than three million homes.”
“On Monday, it announced a deal with Portland Port to service the development.”
“Director Garrett Morrison, from the Norwegian firm, said it hoped to capitalise on the Labour government’s support for offshore wind power.”
or a submarine or two.
Yeah, but what matters is ideological purity, comrades!
It’s like forced collectivization of farms in Ukraine. As a result of a totally flawed, insane policy, millions starved to death. But did they change the policy? Of course they didn’t.
It is the height of insanity to place decision making in the hands of those who suffer no consequences when they turn out to have been catastrophically wrong.
Miliband, the simpering Marxist who is worth millions, will be just fine and dandy while the rest of the UK suffers inevitable blackouts and a fleet of immobile reliable diesel lorries remain unable to deliver food while the electric ones recharge after about 75 miles on the M5. He and his ilk need to face the prospect of real consequences, hard if need be, to get the silly buggers to see sense.
And the golden goose that keeps on giving to the green power grifters lives on thanks to Milibrain as he awards the most expensive offshore contracts today at about £90 per MWh, index linked to guarantee we will always pay more, never less. Thank goodness we aren’t California which is continuing to pay for one of the most disastrous green experiments, heating a water tower by concentrated solar. Wildlife has literally been boiled to death, acres of desert laid to waste and US$2.2bn invested and climbing.
It’s very simple. Net Zero means that Britain is legally obliged to pursue an unachievable and disastrous policy – a policy that imperils our national security, will wreck our economy and is having dreadful and worsening environmental consequences. And yet as Britain is the source of only about 0.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions the whole thing is completely pointless. No one in their right mind could possibly support such a total absurdity.
Yes, those in their right mind know they can make money out of doing nothing useful, those who are not don’t care because their minds are deranged.
I still don’t think people realise how destructive the Energy Performance Certificate requirement for industrial and commercial buildings is. In a significant number of cases owners will fail to meet the standard. If the building is left redundant and empty it will still incur the full business rate, leaving the owner with no choice but to demolish it or go bankrupt. Usually these buildings are perfectly fit for use and the EPC requirements are unreasonable.
Excellent article by Paul Homewood. It ties in with this news today: Record amounts of offshore wind secured in latest government auction I was shocked to learn that both Tory and Labour governments have been holding UK wind farm “auctions” to sell off the contracts for a number of years, and that the vast majority of these contracts have been sold to foreign companies, with Germany winning most of the latest 2026 auction contracts, France coming in second, and the usual international financial companies lurking amongst them all. Milliband’s latest claim is ““Clean, homegrown, power is the right choice for this country to bring down bills for good and this auction will create thousands of jobs throughout Britain.” ” But as Paul Homewood points out, the profits will be neither homegrown, nor bring down bills, nor create thousands of British jobs. It is just a continuation of the Globalist Project for Asset-Stripping Britain. As a genuinely homegrown Welsh protest group against such projects said of one proposal in Wales, “Overall, the ownership structure shows that any profit from Galileo Empower’s investments will end up benefiting a) institutional investors in the southern hemisphere and b) a handful of individuals with no… Read more »
And then there’s this, which reminds people that it is not the UK government by various political parties that are holding these auctions, but The Crown Estate, an independent body which manages Britain’s seabed for the monarch, who owns the seabed up to 12 nautical miles from the coast of England, Wales & Northern Ireland, but not Scotland.
In Scotland, ownership of the seabed up to 12 nautical miles from Scotland’s coast is apparently shared between the Crown Estate and the Scottish Parliament, a democratic right completely denied to England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Crown Estate’s ‘monopoly profiteering’ hampering offshore wind and pushing up bills – Greenpeace – Greenpeace UK
And this further astonishing information: How the monarchy cashes in on our seabed “And here is the rub. Over the past two decades, successive governments have allowed the Crown Estate to become a monopolistic corporate enterprise. In 2004, the New Labour government passed the Energy Act, which enabled the Estate to claim a share of the revenue from production of all offshore wind and wave electricity. In 2008, it extended this to gas and carbon dioxide storage.” “These measures intensified a clear conflict of interest for the Crown Estate between being a steward responsible for preserving the commons for future generations and a business working to maximise revenue and profits.” “Nothing was done to prioritise once again the role of the Crown as protector and steward.” “In brief, the Crown Estate has become a monopolistic sealord. It has monopolised offshore wind and wave energy and created an oligopoly consisting of a few, overwhelmingly foreign-owned multinationals, a structure that promises to keep prices and revenues above what would arise in a competitive market. Although the Estate uses an auction process to decide which firms secure the leases, it still decides how many leases to sell, as well as the size and… Read more »
And last but not least on the subject of the Crown Estate supposedly acting as steward and protector of the marine resources of Great Britain, the top two executive posts are held by an Ethnic African American dual national and an Egyptian Muslim-Italian from Australia, while other executive posts are held by an Ethnic Indian Hindu and an Ethnic German from Australia.
We can be sure they have our best interests at heart…can’t we?
I think as everyone gets their winter fuel bills, they’ll start to question energy costs. Had friend in tears who owns a pub and couldn’t afford to pay themselves anything over Christmas as the bill was eye watering. Just got mine for Nov/Dec and it’s also astronomical and we’ve been burning the coal fire as well.
Can you imagine the costs if we had a winter like that in the 60s and 70s! Thank goodness for global warming…
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you ! 🙂
According to Professor Willie Soon, astrophysicist, fossil fuel is a misnomer. Why does everyone continue to use this name for a form of energy?
Follow the money
Another chapter in the story about the Third World War against CO2..
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/losing-the-war-on-co2
Trillions of dollars have been wasted in the suicidal effort to transition to wind and solar power.
And we get more expensive and less reliable power with damage to forests and farmlands.
A unit of power from electricity costs three times the same unit from gas. So heating everything is far cheaper with gas.
https://edmhdotme.wpcomstaging.com/refuting-the-idea-that-weather-dependent-renewables-are-cheap/