By Paul Homewood

A reader has sent me this latest Conservative Party brochure, bragging off their “achievements” on reducing emissions:

Perhaps a more honest assessment might have mentioned the following points:

• This year Conservative climate policies will cost the country £12.2bn in subsidies for all of this green energy.
• The £52bn “invested”, which will all have to be paid back, is wasted money as it merely duplicates existing capacity.
• All of the installed renewable capacity will need to be backed up by proper power stations.
• While UK emissions have declined by 137 MtCO2 since 2010, China’s have increased by 1291 MtCO2
• They have committed to net zero emissions without any plan of how to achieve it, and without doing any proper costing, although estimates have already put this at £50bn a year.
• Far from “growing the economy”, climate policies have been partially responsible for offshoring of industry.
• Far from “boosting productivity” low productivity has become endemic, something which the obsession with climate can only make worse.

Unfortunately politicians and honesty don’t often go hand in hand!

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August 12, 2019 at 05:33AM