As the EU shifts its spending priorities from the Net Zero agenda to investing in defense, a prominent expert on national security has called for the UK to go back to coal, oil, and gas and to start fracking.
“These are the only domestic energy sources that do not leave the country’s energy security at the mercy of enemy states,” Professor Gwythian Prins has warned. [emphasis, links added]
Professor Prins, formerly head of the Mackinder Programme at the London School of Economics and an adviser to NATO and the Ministry of Defence, warns that our lack of secure energy supplies risks leaving us dangerously exposed.
“All offshore energy supplies are vulnerable, and we have insufficient naval power to protect them.
“Reliance on piped gas from Norway, LNG shipments from America or the Middle East, or the output of rigs and wind farms on our own continental shelf is therefore irresponsible.”
Professor Prins notes that Germany, usually seen as an environmental leader, has already taken the first steps down this road, building super-efficient ‘ultra-supercritical’ coal-fired power stations in response to the deepening energy security crisis and the disaster of their green energy transition.
“We must follow Berlin’s lead. If we can’t defend our offshore assets, we must exploit our onshore ones, and that means firm power from coal, oil, and gas.
“But we must move quickly. We need a new seriousness about our energy security situation in Government. Net Zero is a luxury belief that we can no longer afford and must jettison quickly.”
Professor Prins’ comments are set out in the article ‘The Net Zero Music Stops’, which was published by Net Zero Watch.
Read the full article here.
This is not only educational but also sobering when one considers the importance of what is explained. I have read the full article at NetZero Watch.
I fail to understand how so many really clever people (in Western countries) can be convinced that net zero and or climate change is so important? I’ve been reading about all of it for years and cannot find anything that’s convincing or proves there is a climate problem that humans should be concerned about. Apart from that, I haven’t seen any evidence to prove humans can control the weather.
More relevant to today is global politics are on a knife’s edge. Self sufficiency and national security should be much more important that the weather.
The professor left out another power source to the mix and that’s nuclear. A great source of base-load electricity.
If those Pinheads really want a Brighter Future then they should end this Net Zero load of Malarkey