Reality Kicks In
The truth will out
POSTED ON 04 AUG 23
BY MARK HODGSONIN
Today on BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme, a remarkable interview took place between the presenter, Simon Jack (“SJ”), and Sir Dieter Helm (“DH”). During the interview Sir Dieter said many of the things that have been said repeatedly by climate sceptics. One can only assume that he – unlike most, if not all, sceptics – was allowed on to say what he did, because he says we (by which he means society globally – more on that below) need to “decarbonise” in order to “deal with” climate change.
The interview followed an extensive section commencing with a clip of then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announcing his government’s plans to decarbonise electricity generation by 2035, followed by the good news that offshore wind has (according to the BBC) been “a staggering success story” and that “prices have fallen by 75% in the last decade.” “It’s cheap and it’s clean”, we were told (where are the BBC Verify Team and the climate misinformation specialists when you need them?).
There followed an interview with Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, apparently a believer in net zero, but not a supporter of putting the pylons to take the power from offshore wind farms to where it is needed, via his constituency. That was followed by an interview with EDF’s Director of Offshore & Ireland, Ryanne Burges, in which she claimed that offshore wind is competitive and that “renewables is [sic] the cheapest form of energy that we have at this point in time.”
https://cliscep.com/2023/08/04/reality-kicks-in/
