Cambridge News (1 July 2003). "City's depressing housing under fire". Cambridge News. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Ross Clark is a leader writer and columnist who has written for The Spectator for three decades. His books include Not Zeroand The Road to Southend Pier. Clark describedreports published by the UK government’s official advisor the Committee of Climate Change as documents that “trot out the familiar scary predictions and somewhat dubious statistics”. 88 Ross Clark. “ Waving while drowning,” Spectator, September 25, 2010. Archived April 4, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. Affiliations

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.”O’Neill: Just 30 or 40 years ago, radicals in the West wanted to help the developing world achieve our standards of living. Now, they want to stop them from developing to protect themselves. How has that shift happened? And what can we do about it? Ross Clark. “ The trouble with Greta Thunberg,” Spectator, April 23, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. 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 that despite concerns from scientists about continued bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), a report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science “reveals that coral cover has not only recovered but across two-thirds of the reef it is now at its highest level in 36 years of observations“. Clark wrote that “the environmental movement can [not] quite bring itself to celebrate the result of the latest survey”, and that media coverage of the report was “an object lesson in how environmental news is driven only by misery”. This is a must-read for those in involved in the climate debate and devising climate policy. Not Zero lays out the litany of internal contradictions implicit in the policy of Net Zero" 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”. 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.”

In 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.

We should never take too seriously anyone who says that if we keep carbon emissions to x million tonnes, we will limit the rise in global temperatures by y degrees”. If Rishi Sunak concedes to the demands of a group of (reportedly) around 50 MPs and lifts the moratorium on onshore wind which has been in place for seven years, it won’t take long before we find out why it was imposed in the first place. There are few places in England where you can build a wind farm of any size without either causing serious annoyance to locals or compromising valued landscapes.”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”. He went on to argue that the UK would struggle to plant the number of trees they had planned as land space was scarce and they need to make sure to plan on land “which does not seriously encroach on good quality farmland”. Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won’t Even Save the Planet), Swift Press, 2023 Clark has been strongly critical of climate activist Greta Thunberg, calling hera “well-crafted piece of PR”, 4 Ross Clark. “ The trouble with Greta Thunberg,” Spectator, April 23, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. and the activist group Extinction Rebellion, which he has describedas a “wannabe Marxist revolution in disguise”. 5 Ross Clark. “ Extinction Rebellion is a wannabe Marxist revolution in disguise,” Spectator, November 21, 2018. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. He has describeda David Attenborough documentary on climate change as “propaganda”. 6 Ross Clark. “ What David Attenborough’s climate change show didn’t tell you,” Spectator, April 20, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. 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, Ross (2023) Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet) Forum Press ISBN 978 1800752429 https://swiftpress.com/book/not-zero/ Clark, Ross (24 July 2004). "Globophobia, A weekly survey of world restrictions on freedom and free trade". The Spectator.I am delighted to announce another acquisition by Forum Press: Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won’t Even Save the Planet)by Ross Clark. Clark claimedthat the then hottest July day on recordregistered at Heathrow was deliberately obtained at an international airport, where there are “huge concrete aprons and planes spewing out large quantities of hot air” giving airports their own “microclimate”. 83 Ross Clark. “ Yes, this is England’s hottest July day ever. But this tells us nothing about global warming,” Spectator, July 1, 2015. Archived April 4, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. 84 “ Hottest July day ever recorded in UK,” BBC News, July 1, 2015. Archived April 4, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/iAXN8 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. A continuum of the anti-globalisation movement, which has leapt upon climate change as a vehicle with which to further its battle against capitalism. It behaves as if it owns the issue of climate change – that no-one thought of trying to cut carbon emissions until they did – and is being allowed to get away with this pretence.”