Net Zero an urgent threat to national security
By Paul Homewood
London, 1 March – A new paper from Net Zero Watch makes a comprehensive case that efforts to decarbonise the steel and electricity fundamentals of the economy now represent a real and present danger to national security.
In an important intervention, Sir Gerald Howarth, Minister for International Security Strategy under David Cameron, says in the paper’s foreword:
“Our adversaries are watching us like hawks, so let us leave them in no doubt: we are rearming and rebuilding, and Net Zero is firmly on hold.”
Professor Gwythian Prins, a defence expert and one of the paper’s authors, agrees that with the recent deterioration of the world’s security situation, luxury beliefs such as Net Zero must be jettisoned as a matter of urgency:
“This is the moment when the music stops. The Port Talbot closure harshly exposes the costs of luxury ‘green’ beliefs. We cannot be dependent on imports for the full range of necessary steels to rebuild our arsenals – the Navy first and foremost – and, most ridiculously, we cannot depend for them on our global antagonists."
"Furthermore, our armed forces are wholly dependent on oil to keep them in the field, and our electricity grid will collapse without gas. Any attempt to abandon them will leave us entirely at the mercy of hostile powers."
The paper also includes contributions from Gautam Kalghatgi, a professor of combustion and energy engineering, who ridicules plans to decarbonise the armed forces through use of batteries and biofuels, and the historian Guy de la Bédoyère, who sets out the eternal historical lesson that technological laggards usually end up the victims of conquest by their more advanced neighbours.
Mr de la Bédoyère said:
“It is impossible to diminish the effectiveness of a nation’s armed forces without making it a sitting duck for a more ambitious rival’s greed. But that’s exactly what our leaders seem to want to do.”
Andrew Montford, director of Net Zero Watch said:
“The three contributors make it clear that Net Zero is leaving us at the mercy of hostile powers. A Net Zero army and a Net Zero economy could both be brought to their knees in a matter of days. In these dangerous times, our politicians must re-order their priorities.”
The Music Stops: Net Zero and National security (pdf)
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Skidmore & Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since 2021 must both be agents for foreign powers, surely ?
I am as much against net zero as the next man, and ‘security of supply’ used to be a pillar of electricity supply planning.
However the underlying rationale of this paper is so much bunkum. I assume the ‘enemy’ is Russia, the idea of China invading the UK is just too fanciful.
Quite why the largest country in the world with vast natural resources yet a population of only 150m would be bothered to think about a small island off the north west coast of Europe with very limited natural resources has only one answer. Because the elite of that small island continues to believe its a ‘world power’ and keeps meddling in matters that it has no other reason to do so.
‘Rearming and rebuilding’ based on about the same number of active troops as Russia used in one battle for Adiivka, is just laughable. These people in their own way are madder than the net zero idiots.
Surely the ‘war’ we are in is an economic one, not military. Rather than investing in our own industry and country, the govt seem happy to sell it all off to foreign companies and investments. That’s economic ‘surrender’, isn’t it?
In the end, it will be economic. And military. A modern military costs a lot of money. Net Zero economies will have no money. Hence, no military. Norway or Denmark will be able to invade UK. Most ironic would be an Irish invasion.
Gamecock hopes to live long enough to see that.
The idea of Russia as an aggressor is not so fanciful. If it were then why does Russia devote significant resources to testing UK air defences, as well as attacking data security? The UK is a member of NATO which is indeed a potential threat to Russia.
If China were an ally of Russia or any other potential aggressor (as it is becoming increasingly so) then it is quite conceivable that it could impose sanctions on any enemy of its ally. It doesn’t have to invade the country to cause it immense damage. It’s time to rein in untrammelled globalisation and give some thought to the basic security of the country’s inhabitants and the nation’s economic welfare and security.
The idea that Russia will shortly invade the UK or even anywhere beyond the Russian ethnic oblasts in east Ukraine is complete nonsense peddled either by ignorant people – of which there are many – or members of the military trying to extract more money from the government.
Military wars are so passé.
The new mode is an Information War, with the evidence in plain sight, and it can be conduct with minimal effort: just look at all the coincidences afflicting the West.
And the UK and China do have a lot of History, apart from the UK aligning with the US, especially with the political elite agendas, as well as being dependent on the Far East for so much trade.
“the idea of China invading the UK is just too fanciful.“
To late … they already have us by the short & curlys; where do you think most ‘UK manufacturing is done, where do you think most of our electronics & computing come from.
Most of UK basic industries & infrastructure is owned / controlled by foreign companies / governments.
Hence The World Economic Forum (WEF), saying …
“You will own nothing & be happy”
So to counter Warmunist machinations, Christian National Socialism offers to jail more hippies and brown people for plant leaves and ensslave pregnant women to stop Race Suicide. Brilliant!
‘the idea of China invading the UK is just too fanciful.’
They don’t need to. They’re already here economically speaking. An awful lot of high-end products are imported from there and that’s their ‘wedge’. They also – afaik – have positions in our energy systems.
Maybe they’ll fight the Muslims.
Ministers should be left in no doubt whatsoever that criminal charges will be brought against those who sanction inadequate energy systems that fail, leaving our country disadvantaged or exposed to hostile actors.
Ministers and policy makers (that’s you, CCC) need skin in this game. They need to know If Net Zero policies leave the UK compromised THEY WILL GO TO JAIL.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-false-promise-of-carbon-capture-as-a-climate-solution/
Carbon capture can’t work because it leaks out.
Apart from being very expensive and unproven, while using more methane than just burning it.
Another question for the minister for Energy Security?
The attraction of carbon “capture” is that it’s difficult or impossible to show that it has all leaked out again after being “captured”. So the carbon capture snake oil companies garner their huge subsidies to set up and operate carbon capture, and no-one can ever prove that it has failed. Quite an attractive business model if you have no ethics.