Britain’s former chief Brexit negotiator has urged the government to move away from “medieval technology” such as wind power, saying there is no evidence world is facing a “climate emergency”. Lord Frost – who quit Boris Johnson’s cabinet over the administration’s Covid restrictions, net-zero ambitions and tax rises – hit out at a “totally unrealistic approach to climate and energy policy” over the past two decades. Wind is medieval? “The current evidence does not support the assertion that we are in a climate “emergency””, the Tory peer wrote, as he delivered a fresh swipe at Johnson’s climate policies. “Western society, and indeed world civilisation, depends on copious supplies of energy.

Source: The Times August 11, 2022 07:32 UTC