Emma Pinchbeck, the new chief executive of the UK Climate Change Commission, gave her first TV interview to the BBC this weekend Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. [emphasis, links added]
As a so-called expert tasked with advising the UK government on how to achieve net zero emissions, she displays a shocking ignorance of the climate debate.
As you might expect, Britain's chief climate bureaucrat is keen to get us all to adopt a sweater lifestyle and be “carbon conscious”.
In the interview, she consistently recommended switching from gas boilers to heat pumps and from gasoline cars to electric cars, despite the high costs of both options.
She also wants us to buy “second-hand stuff” and avoid flying abroad for holidays. (Of course, “some flights are OK,” she added, defending her 8,000-kilometer round-trip trip to Azerbaijan for COP29.)
However, beyond these lifestyle changes, Pinchbeck denied there would be any significant costs to achieving net zero emissions.
She claimed that “for macroeconomics it is clear” that a green transition is a good idea regardless of climate change.
She seems to have forgotten that The “transition” will mean higher energy bills, the risk of blackouts, trillions of dollars in costs to the public sector and an imbalance across the industry.
When presenter Laura Kuenssberg raised concerns about job losses at the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales and the Stellantis/Vauxhall van factory in Luton – both tragic victims of the climate agenda , Pinchbeck cheerfully dismisses these risks.
“Change always brings winners and losers”, she said.
Maybe we shouldn't be surprised by Pinchback, Former renewable energy industry lobbyist and WWF climate policy directorwill ignore the costs of green policies.
But perhaps most worryingly She also doesn’t seem to understand the science of climate change.
As footage of flooding from Storm Darla flashed on the screen, she warned:
“Weather events like these pose risks to all of us… If we don't address climate change internationally, these impacts will become more severe over our lifetimes… We talk a lot about the costs of dealing with climate change, but we There is little talk about the costs of not tackling climate change.
But the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, often hailed as the bible of climate science, clearly states: The relationship between man-made global warming and flooding has not yet been proven.
Or in scientific terms: “There is low confidence that changes in the probability or intensity of flood events can be attributed to human influence.”
It turns out that the so-called experts who want to tell us how to live, how to heat our homes and how to power our economy know nothing about the agenda they are pushing.
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