Heatwaves in the UK, floods in Texas and wildfires in southern Europe have all been held up as portents of a coming climate apocalypse. Ed Miliband, the UK energy secretary, warned earlier this month that the British ‘way of life’ is under threat and ‘no sector or part of society is immune from those risks’. But is climate change really proving to be as dangerous as the eco-alarmists claim? And can it justify the extortionate costs of Net Zero, the drive to decarbonise every aspect of our lives?
