In a columnabout weather events and global warming, Clark said: 16 Ross Clark. “ Don’t blame all ‘weird’ weather on climate change,” Spectator, December 3, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. In an article for the Telegraph, Clark criticised the charity Christian Aid for blaming “everything on man-made climate change”, suggesting they should “drop the climate rubbish”. 61 Ross Clark. “ Christian Aid should drop the climate rubbish,” Telegraph, December 29, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/lWXDH The world is getting warmer, that much is clear. But the evidence for that needs to be dissociated from the tendency of some campaigners to try to pin every piece of adverse weather on man-made climate change.” In an article titled “Britain should embrace new coal mining” written after Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove greenlit Britain’s first deep coal mine in 30 years, Clark wrote: 33 Ross Clark. “ Britain should embrace new coal mining,” Spectator, December 8, 2022. Archived December 22, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.is/o57dR O’Brien, Neil; Clark, Ross (2010), The Renewal of Government, A manifesto for whoever wins the election (PDF), Policy Exchange

Electric cars are another case in point. They are very much the pin-up of net zero, but when you bore down into the detail you find that, because of the metals that have to be mined for the batteries, their manufacture involves more greenhouse gas emissions than does a petrol car. Clark wrote: “Those, like Carney, who saw a grim future for oil were swung by their Panglossian belief in a green future, failing to see the bigger picture”. We shouldn’t allow energy policy to be dominated by generation alone, as it has been for years – we have had subsidies galore for power generators with rather less investment in the grid. It is no use generating large quantities of green power if we don’t have the infrastructure to cope with it. That way lies only mass power cuts.” Wind turbines are great galumphing things that despoil Britain’s rural landscapes, pummel the prices of nearby houses and plague residents with terrible noise and light pollution […] Yet the blind insistence of eco-zealots on more and more wind power – and the weakness of our Prime Minister in potentially bowing to their demands – means we risk pursuing such a barmy policy”. Given the failure of the world to come to an end, it is tempting to say, just as we do when religious cults and other fantasists make doom-laden predictions which fail to come to pass: well, the whole thing must be a hoax.” KeyQuotesIn a Spectator column, Clark claimed that Britain’s growing reliance on renewable energy will make power cuts more likely, criticising wind power in particular. He concluded by writing: 66 Ross Clark. “ How renewable energy makes power cuts more likely,” Spectator, August 10, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Clark arguedthat the 2008 Climate Change Act will do “untold damage to British industry”. 87 Ross Clark. “ The Climate Change Act will do untold damage to British industry,” Spectator, December 16, 2013. Archived April 4, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Clark, Ross (2012). A Broom Cupboard of One's Own: The housing crisis and how to solve it (eBook). Harriman House. ISBN 978-0857192967. But these days, a storm is no longer simply a storm; it is a portent of global doom. The ever politically correct and self-righteous Snow tweeted: ‘Trees and branches affected by climate change have slowed our rail journey. What an irony! What a message! We MUST change! Dare we hope that we shall?’

If the Government wants to encourage investment in native oil and gas production – and it should – it needs to […] give the industry reassurances that it is not going to be regulated out of existence by net zero commitments”. Ross Clark is a British journalistwho has written for the Spectator, the Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, and the Sun. 2 “ Ross Clark,” Harriman House. Archived April 3, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/xOgeY He also stated: “In America as in Britain, debate is becoming fixated on decarbonising energy without thinking enough about resilience.” The reason we keep having ‘record-breaking heat is not so much because of climate change – although rising global temperatures are slightly increasing the chances of records being broken – but because there are so many records to break.” Clark concedes that “the world is warming and there are many reasons why we should want to cut carbon emissions and adopt cleaner forms of energy”, but also argued that “some of what passes for warnings on climate is sheer flight of fancy” and “is not climate science, nor science of any kind; it is science fiction, dreamed up to serve a particular political outlook”.The Daily Mail published an article by Clark titled: “We all want to save the planet but the Government’s barely debated and uncosted fantasy of achieving net zero by 2050 will leave us all poorer, colder and hungrier”. 20 Ross Clark. “ We all want to save the planet but the Government’s barely debated and uncosted fantasy of achieving net zero by 2050 will leave us all poorer, colder and hungrier,” Daily Mail, January 21, 2023. Archived January 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.is/d7zG3 In a Spectator article titled “Britain would be wrong to pay climate change reparations”, Clark wrote: 24 Ross Clark. “ Britain would be wrong to pay climate change reparations”, Spectator, November 9, 2022. Archived November 25, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/bJNO2 Expressing his scepticism on the scientific knowledge of the child strikers in a Spectator column, Clark challenged headteachers to set their children climate research essays, writing “I would genuinely be interested in reading the results”.

Anyone who claims that Dorian, or any other hurricane, is a product of climate change and asserts that it would not have happened, or would have been less damaging, without man-made climate change does not have science on their side. On the contrary, it is they who are denying the evidence.” Describing such claims as “hysteria” and “scaremongering,” Clark wrote: “much of the claims about us succumbing to ever wilder and more extreme weather is just hyperbole – lazy and contradictory assertion fed by our failure to remember that the weather always has been and always will be prettyextreme.” In an article for The Daily Mail, Clark commented on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030, disputing the efficacy of electric cars in reducing carbon emissions. Clark wrote: “Manufacturing electric cars also creates far more carbon emissions than making petrol or diesel ones. So even if they are powered by ‘green’ electricity, you will have to drive thousands of miles before you actually save any carbon.” 52 Ross Clark. “ Electric cars may promise us a greener future but they are a non-starter until they make one I can drive to Scotland in,” Daily Mail, November 16, 2020. Archived November 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/xtiwp Justifying his position, Clark said that the new airport could be “marketed as a green solution” by doubling up as tidal barrage. Clark argued that Extinction Rebellion ( XR) have been allowed various privileges by police powers due to having “deep tentacles inside the establishment” in a column for the Spectator. 58 Ross Clark. “ The police are in thrall to Extinction Rebellion in Cambridge,” Spectator, February 17, 2020. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.Clark also criticised the “hysteria and doom-mongering” surrounding the climate change debate, before claiming: “If you want to reach net zero in the next few years through the curtailment of lifestyles, you are not going to achieve it without returning society to a pre-industrial level of subsistence”. In 1989, Clark won The Spectator Young Writers Award, part of the prize for which – a lunch — he later claimed not to have received. [5] He established himself as a freelance journalist, with his work appearing in The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday and The Times, where he frequently writes the Thunderer column. His work is strongly associated with libertarianism and free market economics, writing the "Banned Wagon" [6] and "Globophobia" columns in The Spectator. [7] In 2013, he was co-winner of the Bastiat Prize run by the Reason Foundation. [8] He was also shortlisted for the prize in 2004.