‘Better late than never’: The Telegraph admits climate policy disastrous for Britain

Climate and energy analysts say that British publication The Telegraph’s admission that strict climate policies have had a disastrous impact on their nation is “better late than never,” with some welcoming the newspaper to the “reality” that even if a climate crisis existed, humans are powerless to stop it.President and co-founder of The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Craig Rucker told The Center Square that “it’s refreshing to finally see the editor of a major British newspaper state the obvious: net zero has been an abysmal failure.”
Rucker said the author of the Telegraph’s article in question, Allister Heath, “gets it right – Britain’s pursuit of this radical Green fantasy has devastated industry, raised costs, and achieved absolutely nothing for the climate.”
“One only wishes this sort of honesty had come years earlier, long before the crippling damage was done,” Rucker said. “But I guess, it’s better late than never.”
Similarly, director of The Heartland Institute’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy Sterling Burnett responded with “Better late than never, I guess” to the news of The Telegraph’s admission.
“The most telling lines come in the opening paragraphs when they admit that net zero is a ‘despicable con,’ and that the attempt to save the world was a ‘futile gambit,’ from the outset,” Burnett told The Center Square.
“Indeed, futile and unnecessary since the Earth abides regardless of human action; data shows that there is no climate crisis and, despite some academics’ and elites’ hubris, even if there were a crisis, humans couldn’t control or prevent it,” Burnett said.
“Green colonialist actions and policies designed by Western elites to control the weather 50 or 100 years from now was an inane, quixotic quest from the start,” Burnett said. “A waste of scarce resources, that could have been put to better use to reduce hunger and disease, from the start.”
“To the Telegraph, I say, welcome to reality – it’s about time,” Burnett said.
The Telegraph Media Group has not yet responded to The Center Square’s request for comment.
The Telegraph article’s author as well as Sunday Telegraph editor Allister Heath said that “climate change is real, but Britain can do almost nothing about it.”
“It’s time to accept this sobering reality, cut our losses, cease tilting at (and building) windmills, ditch the despicable con that is net zero, and learn to cope with, and whenever possible, even enjoy, a warmer, drier, more volatile Mediterranean climate, if that is indeed to be our fate,” Heath wrote.
“We have crippled British industry, hammered consumers and pushed the grid to the brink of blackouts, all with no discernible impact on global emissions and the climate,” Heath wrote.
“Hubris has ruined us, a tiny nation accounting for 0.8 per cent of global CO2 emissions from combustible fuels,” Heath wrote. “We were fooled into believing that we could single-handedly lead the way in saving the world, a futile gambit if there ever were one.”
Chairman of the American Lands Council Myron Ebell told The Center Square that “Heath’s wake-up call is almost 20 years too late.”
“It was obvious to anyone paying attention when the Climate Change Act passed the House of Commons in 2008 with only five no votes that the costs would be staggering and the benefits negligible,” Ebells said.

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