“…the UK [is] taking on the annual presidency of the G7 and hosting the delayed UN climate summit, COP26. The UK has placed itself at the forefront of the ambition to build a  “greener and more resilient global economy.” (Stephen Booth, Conservative Home, 9th July 2020)

These are words to strike dread into the hearts of all who have our nations’ interests at heart. One of the few bits of my Cranwell training that endures is an understanding of the word ‘priority’. You can only have one, that’s what the word means. You want maximum growth or you want to wear the green hairshirt. Choose greener or choose more resilient and then go for your choice without compromise. If your choice is to accept the dubious science of anthropogenic climate change then so be it, but impose the policies that this will lead to with open eyes, making a clear statement that you are aware of where they will leave the UK in twenty years: impoverished, vulnerable and weak.

The nations which adopt a goal of cheap energy will win the race to dominate the 21st century. Choosing to run our industry on unreliable, costly and subsidised wind and solar power (which rely on fossil fuel back-up but do not pay the cost of that) while rejecting low CO2 natural gas and zero CO2 nuclear will be disastrous. Surely even the STEM-deficient UK political class can see that. Fortunately there is a way out of this dilemma.

It is 1 Nov 2021. COP26 begins. Over 30,000 delegates including heads of state, self-declared climate experts, campaigners, true believers, climate hysterics and the doom goblin bring their unshakeable belief in the end of the world to Glasgow, to agree coordinated action to tackle any climate variation from whatever they can get away with claiming as normal. The pans of Glasgow airport are thick with the private jets of a loose association of billionaires and millionaires who have gathered like vultures to feed on the carcass of Western civilisation. Mr Johnson stands to address the biggest gathering of troughers ever to assemble in the history of these islands:

“Madame Chair, I  am, like all of us here, a citizen of the world. But I am the Prime Minister of the UK, and, while I have a duty to all peoplekind, my primary duty is to the people of these islands. Fortunately I can improve the lot of the former and the latter at the same time, by showing a way out of the dilemma in which we find ourselves.

Climate science hardly deserves the name. The models are wrong, they are tweaked beyond recognition. Prestigious centres of learning from around the world have worked for twenty years, have laboured mightily and have brought forth a cloud of model gnats. Only one of their models, the one which calculates that the demon CO2 has much less effect on the atmosphere than the dozens of others assume, tracks the real world. We have many more years, we have decades to address our need to control the climate. The hysterical calls for action this day can be packed away to await a true global crisis.

Having addressed that non-crisis, where are we now? We have the time to prepare ourselves, to make the world economy more resilient in the face of any challenge the future brings. My country will demonstrate how this can be done. We will lead all and every individual, everyone, rich or sick or poor into a brighter future.

Renewable energy is a false god, a cheat, a lie. Leeching off the reliability of our fossil-fuel and nuclear power stations they suck the energy life blood from our old, our poor and our sick. No new such schemes will be approved by my administration unless the operators guarantee delivery 24/7/365. And we will show our determination to right the wrongs of past agreements: we will impose a windfall tax on existing wind and solar farms which exactly matches their subsidies, the money raised to be spent on those who are most disadvantaged by the current arrangement.”

 

(To be continued tomorrow with Part 2 which you cannot afford to miss!)