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. Clark wrote an article for The Daily Mail criticising the government’s plans to replace 600,000 gas boilers with heat pumps by 2028 as part of an attempt to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. 45 Ross Clark. “ ROSS CLARK: How absurd you may be banned from selling your own home if you don’t meet draconian new eco rules (which just happen to cost the earth),” The Daily Mail, April 6, 2021. Archived April 6, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8XSiF In a comment piece for the Telegraph, Ross Clark criticised the UK government’s plan to install 600,000 heat pumps by 2028 and ban fossil fuel based heating systems by 2035, arguing that “the Government simply hasn’t thought through its net zero strategy”. 19 Ross Clark. “ Just admit that Britain isn’t ready for heat pumps,” The Telegraph, March 15, 2023. Archived March 15, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/bBFHR Clark wrote an article in The Spectator criticising Hope Not Hate, an activist group which had campaigned to make climate science denial a hate crime. He stated that “the very use of the word ‘denial’ is an attempt to put anyone sceptical of climate alarmism in the same pigeonhole as holocaust deniers,” adding: “Climate change is becoming the next woke battleground.” 54 Ross Clark. “ The next culture war will be over climate change,” The Spectator, July 4, 2020. Archived February 1, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ HDoe4

Extinction Rebellion is quite different in that it openly advocates lower living standards. It actively wants to reverse economic growth. It is, as a result, an indulgence on the part of people who feel divorced from economic forces and who don’t feel they need to engage with what would be the realities of a shrinking economy: mass unemployment and millions struggling to feed and clothe their families.” The article concludedthat, “we are still a long way from efficient CCS, but there is nothing to say that it can’t outflank technologies such as hydrogen and battery storage, to become a large part of a transition to zero carbon. So, no, it is not a foregone conclusion that oil companies will be brought down and their assets stranded – even if Greenpeace would very much like them tobe.” He lives in Reach, Cambridgeshire. In 2011 he was elected to be a member of the village's parish council. [14] Books [ edit ]Climate change is a world that has come to be controlled by activists and campaigners who claim to be on the side of science and reason but who are really spinning narratives which suit ulterior motives […] We have somehow developed an atmosphere in which anyone who expresses scepticism is denounced as a ‘denier’, yet baseless narratives of doom are promoted as fact. To have succeeded in creating this atmosphere is an astonishing achievement on the part of climate activists. Their manipulation of public emotion is truly remarkable.” The Left has moved on from simply using the emotive language of Holocaust-denial and applying it to climate change scepticism. Rather, they now treat climate scepticism as a medieval-style heresy.” He wrote that “anyone remotely well-versed in the science of wind energy” understands that “a future predicated on wind energy would be disastrous”, and added: A Broom Cupboard of One’s Own: The housing crisis and how to solve it by boosting home-ownership, Harriman House,2012

Anyone who claims that Dorian, or any other hurricane, is a product of climate change and asserts that it would not have happened, or would have been less damaging, without man-made climate change does not have science on their side. On the contrary, it is they who are denying the evidence.” 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”.The Daily Mail published an article by Clark titled “My inconvenient truth: Ross Clark accepts that the planet IS warming. But in a new book he challenges the consensus and argues that the hysteria and doom-mongering that now surround any debate risk doing more harm than climate change ever could”. 21 Ross Clark. “ My inconvenient truth: Ross Clark accepts that the planet IS warming. But in a new book he challenges the consensus and argues that the hysteria and doom-mongering that now surround any debate risk doing more harm than climate change ever could,” Daily Mail, January 21, 2023. Archived January 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.is/RTbU2 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. Oil and coal companies are the unsung heroes of the greatest period in the improvement of global living standards theworld has ever known.”

In an article titled “Good news: we now have until 2030 to save the Earth”, Clark argued that IPCC reports in 2018, which told governments they had 12 years to avert climate catastrophe, were a good sign, as previous organisations had given a stricter deadline: 18 Ross Clark. “ Good news: we now have until 2030 to save the earth,” Spectator, October 8, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations That Are Strangling Britain, Harriman House, 2007 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”. 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

In an articleabout oil and gas companies in New York City, Clark said: 30 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. In an article for The Spectator, Clark disputed whether the British energy system lasting for two months without coal would end the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, writing: “the coal hard reality is that we are still a long, long way away from ending our dependence on fossil fuels. The contribution from wind and solar, in particular, is hugely inflated in the popular imagination.” 57 Ross Clark. “ Our coal-free months aren’t as impressive as they seem,” Spectator, June 10, 2020. Archived September 28, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/IwYHy 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, Ross (2009). The Road to Southend Pier: One man's struggle against the Surveillance Society (2nded.). Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1594032486.

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And that’s the point of Forum: to publish the books that rationally challenge groupthink, to ensure that important contributors to the key debates of our time who have unfashionable views aren’t closed down. I think that we will undoubtedly be doing that by publishing Ross’s excellent book. He has also cast doubt on the link between climate change and extreme weather events and saidthe public should hear more about the “beneficial side of climate change”. 7 Ross Clark. “ Why don’t we hear about the beneficial side of climate change?” Spectator, November 28, 2014. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog.