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 Clark also called for green-minded rebel MPs to push for “increasing investment in gas”, before concluding that the so-called “rebel MPs” should “leave [onshore wind] well alone”. Clark defended GM technology in an article for the Spectatorsaying: 82 Ross Clark. “ Why I’m boycotting Waitrose,” Spectator, November 2, 2016. Archived April 4, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.

Phew! The dangers of global warming are receding. Admittedly that is not how most news sources are reporting the publication of the latest IPCC report this morning. But it is the logical conclusion of reading coverage of the issue over the past decade.” 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”. Clark wrote a columnfor the Spectator claiming schoolchildren who attend climate strikes “may be suffering from trauma”, as they are “victims of the hyperbole they have been fed”. 74 Ross Clark. “ Child climate change protestors aren’t truants, they’re traumatised,” Spectator, February 15, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. After arguing that Britain’s energy crisis “has been made much worse by energy policies which for a decade and a half have doggedly pursued the objective of cutting carbon emissions without any regard to the costs”, Clark also claimed that the Government had “deprived Britain of what could have been by now a very productive native shale gas industry”.

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Ross Clark argues that it is a terrible mistake, an impractical hostage to fortune which will have massive downsides. Achieving the target is predicated on the rapid development of technologies that are either non-existent, highly speculative or untested. Clark shows that efforts to achieve the target will inevitably result in a huge hit to living standards, which will clobber the poorest hardest, and gift a massive geopolitical advantage to hostile superpowers such as China and Russia. The unrealistic and rigid timetable it imposes could also result in our committing to technologies which turn out to be ineffective, all while distracting ourselves from the far more important objective of adaptation. While an increasingly extreme climate lobby seeks to deny it, fossil fuels have been the fundamental ingredient of the industrialisation which has changed life for nearly all of us vastly for the better over the past two centuries.” Calling the group a “bunch of anarchists”, Clark went on to agree with the Counter Terrorism Police’s suggestion to put XR on the terror watch list saying, “it was hardly an unreasonable thing to do.”

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 Clark arguedthat the 2019 Conservative leadership candidates were “falling over themselves to say the same thing on climate — only louder than their rivals”. Clark accused the politicians of “greenwashing” as the “national mood moves towards mass panic”. 71 Ross Clark. “ Greener than thou,” Spectator, June 15, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Clark wrote an article for the Spectatorwhere he argued that if governments look at ways of decreasing single-use plastic bags then they should also look at other materials and ‘bags for life’ and said that environment policymaking “tends to dart between fashionable issues, ignoring complexities”. 77 Ross Clark. “ The great plastic panic,” Spectator, January 20, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. To hear today’s reaction to the news that Michael Gove has granted permission to build Britain’s first deep coal mine for a generation is to step through the looking glass into a bizarre world where a Conservative government is considered evil for helping to create mining jobs in a de-industrialised region – and the ‘enlightened’ position is to eradicate the very last traces of the coal industry.”

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I fear that under net zero, cars will become a luxury; we will return to the world as it was before the 1960s, with the wealthy driving around on pleasantly empty roads, but with everyone else expected to take the bus […] That is simply cruel.” In an article for the Spectator, Clark stated that he had investments in both the oil industry and renewable energy companies. 9 Ross Clark. “ New York’s fight against the oil giants is political posturing at its worst,” Spectator, January 11, 2018. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. We are, of course, in the midst of a ‘climate emergency’ and the ‘sixth mass extinction’ of life on Earth. It is just that one of the iconic victims doesn’t seem to be playing ball just at the moment.”