Jeremy Warner’s Road To Damascus
May 1, 2024
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/01/net-zero-leviathan-crushing-uk-economy/
Could this be the same useless Jeremy Warner who has spent years promoting Net Zero?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/11/truth-britains-net-zero-target-wholly-unrealistic/
SURELY NOT!!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Perhaps he has decided the time is right to get out of the AEP shadow?
He flip flops about as if every story is about something he has never written or read about before.
Fence sitting? Works for Starmer, allegedly
Just a guess, but me thinks she’ll be gone before then.
Good insight . . . unusual for a journalist.
No. He hasn’t seen the light. At the end of the piece he goes so far as to say it would help if all military vehicles were converted to run on H2!!!
can you imagine the logistics of the scenario…one of the most volatile and hard to contain gases stored in large quantities in the centre of a combat zone!
Looking at his by-line picture he hasn’t changed in seven years.
Yes, he’s had his eureka moment, many have – I have been doing some research on the works of Nir Shaviv, the Israeli astrophycist who’s produced some excellent work showing the Sun drives our climate, not CO2 – he too was a climate alarmist until he began looking deeper and is now very anti AGW
*Leading* the ‘climate change fight’ isn’t the problem. It’s believing that there’s one to be had.
I’ve just read Warner’s article and it’s clear to me that he hasn’t changed his mind at all. No, he says, Net Zero by 2050 is impossible solely because of irresponsible Government inaction. A few extracts:
And that’s all happened ‘While others race ahead‘ – ‘the energy revolution is coming … there is unstoppable global momentum. The UK can either be at the forefront of it, or left trailing at the back … we fail to participate in the industrial revolution of the coming energy transition at our peril‘.
An epiphany? I don’t think so.
Some people’s irresponsible Government inaction is someone else’s Thank goodness it won’t affect me now
We’ve already failed to capitalise on it. Majority of equipment is imported we have minimal skin in the game despite twenty plus years of some of the most generous subsidies around the globe
Profoundly non-economic claim. This is like claiming you are worse off because you buy your food from Tesco rather than growing it all yourself.
Not sure your point but mine is the fact that despite govts al all hues heaping subsidies onto renewables there is minimal indigenous industries that have been able to take advantage. Yes blades are made for some windmills in Hull but pretty well 100% of nacelles come from European companies and are manufactured in Europe although China now even gaining a toehold. All the high voltage HVDC systems are manufactured in Europe and even basic steelwork is largely constructed overseas.
So my point remains its hardly been a bonanza for green jobs that our daft politicians talk about but certainly has been for overseas manufactures.
Once again the bizarre claims about “leading” and “industrial strategy”. For an Economics editor he know precious little Economics.
She and Warner don’t know what ‘markets’ means. They know conservatives like the word. So they come up with a bizarre scheme – Net Zero – then declare it best that ‘markets’ achieve it. While the purpose of Net Zero is to destroy markets.
Weird isn’t it how these oddballs think they can determine the outcome and the free “market” can fulfil their wishes. Quite bizarre.
Seems to be a thing as the idiot that was in charge of the traffic section at the City of London when I worked there when confronted by the pub and bars logistics group about the City making it nigh on impossible to make deliveries at some locations, having ducked out of the meeting said that the markets will find a way and mentioned using cargo bicycles to deliver kegs and casks of beer. FFS!!
Yes, the whole point of “markets” is to allocate resources to what people value most highly. If you mandate what is produced, you have competition, but not markets.
“…markets will find a way…”
Ayn Rand said that, at a certain point, “Atlas [symbolising the fiercely free and rational spirit] who bears the world on his shoulders will shrug.” She was right about that, but wrong about the timing. Atlas, as a Titan, seems to have a limitless capacity for accepting insults and torments, while doing his best for a silly and ungrateful human race.
Atlas! Consider putting down your burden, and letting the world go crash. It might be good for it.