Send In the Clowns
Adeste fideles
Posted on 15 Jul 25
by Mark Hodgson
It’s over six years since Alex Cull posted Parliament of Fools here at Cliscep. Despite two general elections having taken place since then, the level of debate around the issues of climate change and net zero has not improved much, if at all.
Yesterday saw the House of Commons debating (if such a charade merits the use of the word) the “State of Climate and Nature”. It seems that Mr Miliband has decided to go on the offensive, since all is not well in the world of net zero. It’s time to bang the drum, rally the faithful, and castigate the heretics. Happily for him, he was able to quote the latest piece of alarmism from the Met Office, in the form of its annual update, the latest being “State of the UK Climate in 2024”. Perhaps less conveniently for him, NESO has also just published its 170 page Future Energy Scenarios 2025: Pathways to Net Zero. While the Met Office can always be relied on to help to drum up support for net zero with hefty doses of climate alarmism, NESO actually has a job to do, and has to temper net zero zeal with a dose of reality. Hence we find things like this in the report (at page 39):
The Ten Year Forecast (10YF) has a shortfall of almost 4 million heat pump installations relative to the pathways in 2035 if progress is not accelerated.
The 10YF also shows that, at the current pace, industry is unlikely to switch from natural gas to low carbon alternatives at a sufficient rate.
Meanwhile, the Guardian reports on the NESO report thus:
https://cliscep.com/2025/07/15/send-in-the-clowns/
