The Climate Scaremongers: More Lies From The UK’s Crackpot Climate Change Committee

The UK’s Climate Change Committee has warned the government that the country is heading for disaster unless it quickly ramps up efforts to tackle what it calls ‘climate risks’. [emphasis, links added]

In their latest Progress Report on Adaptation, they claim:

‘The increasing impacts of climate change are clear, both globally and in the UK. Adaptation is needed now to ensure that the UK is prepared for today’s extreme weather as well as the rapidly increasing severity of future risks. The costs of these impacts are already being felt, and the risks will continue to grow even if international targets to limit global warming are met. Action is needed now whilst we still have the opportunity to address these risks in a way that is both cost-effective and timely.’

They say that by 2050:

• Over half of England’s prime farmland, one in four homes, and half of roads and rail lines will be at risk of flooding;

• Heat-related deaths could pass 10,000 in an average year;

• Unchecked climate change could cost 7 percent of GDP.

Absurd claims such as these, which have no basis in reality, show that the CCC is a body that we should not take seriously.

Their statement about floods ignores the reality that only a few thousand properties a year are affected by flooding, and there has been no upward trend in the numbers, according to official data from the Environment Agency.

The UK climate has not changed a jot in the last 25 years, so it is hardly likely to do so in the next 25 years.

And far from thousands dying from the heat, summer is still the season when death rates are at their lowest. As for 7 percent of GDP, that equates to about £140 billion a year, which is clearly ludicrous.

In reality, the UK climate has not changed a jot in the last 25 years, so it is hardly likely to do so in the next 25 years.

We have had a few hot summers in recent years, but none as hot as 1976 or 1995. And the wettest years were 1872, 1903, and 2000.

We are accustomed to silly scare stories like this, promises of Mediterranean summers, an end of snow, and so on.

In February 2012, the then-Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman told us that drought may now be the new norm, just before the wettest summer on record.

Four months later, ‘scientists’ said that the dull, damp weather that summer was, you guessed it, all the result of climate change!

This latest CCC report is just another attempt to bulldoze through their climate agenda, one that is already doing great harm to the country, a fact which the British public is beginning to wake up to.

FOOTNOTE: Baroness Brown, chair of the Adaptation Committee which put out this report, is still non-executive director of Ceres Power (developers of green hydrogen) and Orsted (Danish wind power company), both companies which stand to make a lot of money out of the climate scare.

Pure coincidence, of course!

But in a further twist, Ørsted announced yesterday it would be discontinuing its Hornsea 4 project in the UK in its current form. Since the Contract for Difference (CfD) award in allocation round 6 (AR6) in September 2024, the 2,400 MW Hornsea 4 project has seen several adverse developments relating to continued increase of supply chain costs, higher interest rates, and an increase in the risk to construct and operate Hornsea 4 on the planned timeline for a project of this scale.

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