The 'Leading UK Scientists' Letter Urging Abandonment Of North Sea Is Ideology Masquerading As Scien

[rangerrebew]

The 'Leading UK Scientists' Letter Urging Abandonment Of North Sea Is Ideology Masquerading As Science
Tyler Durden
 
Saturday, Apr 11, 2026 - 08:10 AM
Authored by Tilak Doshi via Tilak’s Substack,

The Financial Times reported on Good Friday that “more than 65 leading UK scientists” had signed an open letter, published as a Google Doc, urging the Government to abandon new North Sea oil and gas drilling in favour of renewables.



“Here is the scientific establishment speaking with one voice,” the FT tells us, warning against the supposed folly of extracting what remains of Britain’s hydrocarbon resources and to choose renewables that, according to the scientist-signatories, provide both energy security and “cheaper solutions [that] we have already, that we know work”.

Also on Good Friday, Catherine McBride OBE — co-author of the recently published report for the Great British Business Council on Britain’s climate policy-induced de-industrialisation and a plan to reverse it — published a Substack article on X titled ‘What the Greens, most MPs and the FT don’t understand about the North Sea oil and gas‘. Ms McBride and her co-authors have little time for the sheer illiteracy of the Greens and mainstream media in economic and energy issues related to the UK government’s punitive taxes on North Sea oil and gas production.

To point out that the “FT is nothing more than the Guardian with stock prices these days”, a “once mighty publications fallen into the abyss of wokery” would be only to shoot the messenger bearing the familiar pink newsprint. Let’s now turn to the message itself, lest one stand accused of employing ad hominem tactics.

What the so-called ‘consensus’ scientists say

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leading-uk-scientists-letter-urging-abandonment-north-sea-ideology-masquerading-science

[Smokin Joe]

Worth a read, if for nothing else than comments on the nature of science itself.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

What a load of crappola

It asserts that “around 90% of North Sea oil and gas has already been extracted”, that additional production “is unlikely to move prices”, and that the world already possesses “more global reserves of oil and gas than we can safely burn if we are to limit global temperature rise to below 2°C”.

Of course, the usual fire and brimstone warnings of climate damnation apply if we refuse to abide by ‘the Science’.

We will soon exceed the ambitious 1.5°C Paris goal. Any overshoot pushes our climate further out of balance, threatening catastrophic tipping points, including ones that could plunge the UK into a much colder climate in which we would struggle even to grow our own food.

As per the usual climate sermon, warnings of Armageddon are followed by promises of salvation: “As climate scientists, we urge leaders to look to the cheaper solutions we have already, that we know work.”

[catfish1957]

The vast majority of thee rigs are in international waters.  I am not familiar with the laws governing those leases, but i have no probem, having US companies gleefully drilling there instead..

Energy domination?  Hell, let's corner the market. 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Energy domination?  Hell, let's corner the market.

We already do, as we control access to the majority of ME oil due to blockade of Hormuz, as well as the largest relatively untapped crude resources in Venezuela.