Lloyd's of London is the latest institution to abandon the Net Zero agenda, lifting a ban on insuring fossil fuels. About time, says Ben Pile. Green ideology is finally meeting its nemesis: reality and the bottom line.
It's great that Kemi Badenoch says the Tories will now drill in the North Sea. But can the party that brought us the fracking ban and windfall tax be trusted while its wet-green wing is still at large? asks Ben Pile.
Imperial College London doomily predicted 263 deaths during the 'heatwaves' this summer. But Dr William M Briggs has now looked at the data and found deaths went down, not up, during the UK's sunny spells.
The Guardian's recent U-turn over Arctic sea ice – not melting, it turns out – is symptomatic of a broader collapse in climate alarmism, says Ben Pile. None of the prognostications of doom have come true.
The Climate Change Committee's Fifth Carbon Budget, produced 10 years ago, got its predictions about the price of gas in 2025 and the price of renewables predictably wrong, says Ben Pile.
The global renewable boom looks impressive on paper, but in reality, solar and wind barely move the needle – and cost a fortune, says Ben Pile.
Defenders of the climate 'consensus' have been getting angry in recent weeks, leading to embarrassing outbursts in the media. It's a sign of crisis in a scientific establishment that has banned dissent, says Ben Pile.
Wind power companies in Germany were asked to supply electricity without subsidies, but not a single one was prepared to do so. The promises of 'cheap' wind power have utterly failed, says Ben Pile.
Britain's industrial decline wasn't engineered by Beijing but by its own green-obsessed elites and billionaire-backed NGOs, argues Ben Pile, who says the real enemy isn't in China but in Westminster and Brussels.
Britain's energy mess won't be fixed by scrapping paperwork or backing nuclear, says Ben Pile – it's still the same old Green Blob pulling the strings.
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