Describing quotes from two child climate strikers as “disturbed statements”, Clark blamed “climate change alarmism” on “the traumatising power of watching frightening films at an impressionable age”.

O’Brien, Neil; Clark, Ross (2010), The Renewal of Government, A manifesto for whoever wins the election (PDF), Policy ExchangeClark wrote: “Those, like Carney, who saw a grim future for oil were swung by their Panglossian belief in a green future, failing to see the bigger picture”. Clark wrote a columnfor the Spectator claiming schoolchildren who attend climate strikes “may be suffering from trauma”, as they are “victims of the hyperbole they have been fed”. 74 Ross Clark. “ Child climate change protestors aren’t truants, they’re traumatised,” Spectator, February 15, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. ( November 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) 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.

In a Spectator column, Clark described the various tree planting pledges by British political parties as looking like a “Monty Python sketch”. 64 Ross Clark. “ This manic tree-planting contest has gotten out of hand,” Spectator, November 28, 2019. Archived April 3, 2020. Archived .pdf on file atDeSmog. 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”.

Expressing his scepticism on the scientific knowledge of the child strikers in a Spectator column, Clark challenged headteachers to set their children climate research essays, writing “I would genuinely be interested in reading the results”. 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. Clark, Ross (21 March 2013). "If property prices fall, this scheme will be a disaster (Osborne pulls out all the stops to reflate the housing bubble)". The Times.

Clark continued: “In the minds of Deben [chair of the government’s Climate Change Committee], Sharma and others, only one thing seems to matter: lowering Britain’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. All other considerations, such as jobs and national prosperity, seem to go out of the window.”Extinction Rebellion is no group of visionaries – just a left-wing mob determined to disrupt the lives of the rest of us. They need to be treated as such.”