Renew Extra Weekly

 As wild fires spread around continental Europe, and also hit the UK, an unusual consensus seemed to emerge in UK press - climate change is real and we need to act urgently on clean energy. You would  expect the Guardian to say things like that, but the Telegraph ran an opinion piece saying that ‘the right needs to get serious about climate change’ and another saying that party leader Kemi Badenoch ‘must reverse course on net zero before she destroys the Tories’.  She did come back with a response , but it was mainly left to others to maintain the contrarian view, with, for example, John Constable , one time editor of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, saying ‘Climate change is real, but it is an unfortunate fact that renewables are useless.’ And in a Prosperity Institute paper, ‘Good Money After Bad- The Spiralling Costs of British Green Energy Initiatives and What We Can Do About It’, David Turver developed the contrarian view in more depth – with endorsement...