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This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
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"This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians' attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable." Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The sheer lunacy of the European and American fiscal policy for promoting "Green energy" is encapsulated in a quotation on page 264 of this book " Unlike traditional commodities, which sometime during the course of their market must be delivered to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on the lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no one." , The author adds the deceptively neutral remark *The integrity of the scheme depends on the credibility of the validations," Having neatly set the scene he then demonstrates how the carbon market not only rewards dishonesty and corruption, it is as though its architects have perversely designed it to ensure such vices should be widespread, but also does nothing to achieve the goals which are supposed to justify its existence.
Many of the arguments in this book have been made elsewhere by other authors ( the inefficiencies and expense of renewable energy; the mirage of "green jobs" created on the back of massive public subsidy which do not have a deleterious effect on the ordinary job market;the wilful blindness of our politicians to the intentions and expectations of developing countries). The added value in this book is that it brings all these elements together and using very plain, sometimes pungent, language and sticking closely to hard economic facts shows the extent of our current folly. It would be nice to think that senior officials in the Department of Energy and climate change would each a receive a copy in their Christmas stocking and be made to read it. But I fear that too much political capital has been invested in the new pseudo- religion of sustainabiity for it to be taken into account. What Matthew Sinclair is preaching is heresy and his awkward facts will be brushed aside in defence of a transcendental truth which must be protected.
in his conclusions Sinclair acknowledges the formidable special interests which defend the status quo . He urges his readership , on the assumption that they agree his line of argument, to keep up the good fight. I think he might have drawn more on a projection of his own economic material at this point. If he is correct about the economic consequences of current policies, and I think he is, then their comes a point where no matter how dominant the creed in government circles , the media and among the bien pensants neither the balance sheets nor the growing noise from the shivering mob outside the window can be ignored. Perhaps this expectation is sub consciously reflected in his title.
Many of the arguments in this book have been made elsewhere by other authors ( the inefficiencies and expense of renewable energy; the mirage of "green jobs" created on the back of massive public subsidy which do not have a deleterious effect on the ordinary job market;the wilful blindness of our politicians to the intentions and expectations of developing countries). The added value in this book is that it brings all these elements together and using very plain, sometimes pungent, language and sticking closely to hard economic facts shows the extent of our current folly. It would be nice to think that senior officials in the Department of Energy and climate change would each a receive a copy in their Christmas stocking and be made to read it. But I fear that too much political capital has been invested in the new pseudo- religion of sustainabiity for it to be taken into account. What Matthew Sinclair is preaching is heresy and his awkward facts will be brushed aside in defence of a transcendental truth which must be protected.
in his conclusions Sinclair acknowledges the formidable special interests which defend the status quo . He urges his readership , on the assumption that they agree his line of argument, to keep up the good fight. I think he might have drawn more on a projection of his own economic material at this point. If he is correct about the economic consequences of current policies, and I think he is, then their comes a point where no matter how dominant the creed in government circles , the media and among the bien pensants neither the balance sheets nor the growing noise from the shivering mob outside the window can be ignored. Perhaps this expectation is sub consciously reflected in his title.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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A very interesting book. This is not yet another book that argues incessantly about the Science of Artificial Global Warming and it is not the tub thumping Littlejohn style book the title may suggest
. Rather it's a very thoughtful and interesting take on the policy issues one that mostly assumes of a several degree rise in world temperature , exactly that which the British Government and the UN agree on the (IPPC predictions). It argues very compelling that even taking into account the policies designed to prevent this most of all but not exclusively in the UK and EU just do not make sense. His points include
-the supposed costs don't take enough account of time and mitigation even given the IPPC predictions
- That when balanced with the enormous economic cost of more expensive energy the costs of Climate Change look a lot less daunting.
-How terribly expensive the ways we're trying to reduce Carbon consumption are- the Uk goverment seems to give higher subsidies the more expensive the low carbon energy is!
- I thought particularly compelling that given how outside the EU , and to a large degree the UK there is so little attempts e , unilateralism is pointless 'high carbon' industry will just move to China or wherever
He also tackles a series of arguments in favour of the making carbon based energy expensive- his particularly convincing on how green jobs are a myth- any jobs created by more expensive 'green' energy will be outweighed by job losses.
At the same time he does so by and large in a fair mannered way sadly lacking on both sides of this very important area.
I would not suggest this book is perfect-for example I found Mr Sinclair's idea of sponsoring research 'alternatives' a lot less convincing than his powerful arguments against the policy status quo for example. Nonetheless this is an excellent book which i recommend to anyone interested in this issue whatever their stance from 'it's a hoax' to 'end the industrial revolution'.
. Rather it's a very thoughtful and interesting take on the policy issues one that mostly assumes of a several degree rise in world temperature , exactly that which the British Government and the UN agree on the (IPPC predictions). It argues very compelling that even taking into account the policies designed to prevent this most of all but not exclusively in the UK and EU just do not make sense. His points include
-the supposed costs don't take enough account of time and mitigation even given the IPPC predictions
- That when balanced with the enormous economic cost of more expensive energy the costs of Climate Change look a lot less daunting.
-How terribly expensive the ways we're trying to reduce Carbon consumption are- the Uk goverment seems to give higher subsidies the more expensive the low carbon energy is!
- I thought particularly compelling that given how outside the EU , and to a large degree the UK there is so little attempts e , unilateralism is pointless 'high carbon' industry will just move to China or wherever
He also tackles a series of arguments in favour of the making carbon based energy expensive- his particularly convincing on how green jobs are a myth- any jobs created by more expensive 'green' energy will be outweighed by job losses.
At the same time he does so by and large in a fair mannered way sadly lacking on both sides of this very important area.
I would not suggest this book is perfect-for example I found Mr Sinclair's idea of sponsoring research 'alternatives' a lot less convincing than his powerful arguments against the policy status quo for example. Nonetheless this is an excellent book which i recommend to anyone interested in this issue whatever their stance from 'it's a hoax' to 'end the industrial revolution'.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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In this thoughtful, well researched and utterly convincing book, Matthew Sinclair,carefully avoids the often sterile and polarised debate on whether the the underlying science of climate change is well founded or not.
He concentrates instead on describing the policies developed to deal with climate change, identifying those who promote and benefit from these policies and those who do not. He then analyses whether these policies are effective and good value for money.
It is hard to read all of this without a growing sense of indignation. The beneficiaries are almost totally undeserving and the losers are pretty much all of the rest of us. We are all increasingly paying for it all in higher electricity bills, lost jobs, reduced quality of life and actual poverty - and it is all almost totally ineffective and of extremely limited and dubious value.
This is an important book. Politicians and many of their civil servants may find it a hard read, but if they do not read and learn from it, their electorate certainly should.
He concentrates instead on describing the policies developed to deal with climate change, identifying those who promote and benefit from these policies and those who do not. He then analyses whether these policies are effective and good value for money.
It is hard to read all of this without a growing sense of indignation. The beneficiaries are almost totally undeserving and the losers are pretty much all of the rest of us. We are all increasingly paying for it all in higher electricity bills, lost jobs, reduced quality of life and actual poverty - and it is all almost totally ineffective and of extremely limited and dubious value.
This is an important book. Politicians and many of their civil servants may find it a hard read, but if they do not read and learn from it, their electorate certainly should.
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A really awful book
How on Earth can this book be defined "insightful" when purely and simply it is replete with all these half-truths and lies already uttered ad nauseam by the Big Oil industry and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Gidu
The climate change fallacy
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Published 3 months ago by B. J. Bull
Green enrgy
A good book that explains exactly how the general public are in a lot of cases being conned by the green energy camp and polticians. Read more
Published 5 months ago by jim
Why current UK/Global climate policy is totally wrong and ineffective.
Like so many political programmes in recent years and decades, the desire to 'do the right' thing by politicians becomes enslaved by dogma, vote chasing and narrow and vested group... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Interested N-S
A new 'Appeal to Reason' Readable and well researched
My first foray into the world of global warning politics was Lawson's 'An Appeal to Reason'. I enjoyed that book as it dealt specifically with the policy rather than the science... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Kindleaddict
Takes the emotion out of climate change
This intelligently written book takes the emotion out of the climate change question. No doubt the title will cause many environmentalists to fume, but this book does not deal with... Read more
Published 8 months ago by P. Henrick
Why won't they listen?
Like all great books that uncover poor decisions made by the government with our money, this one leaves you asking "Why the hell won't they listen to reason? Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. S. Green
be informed
There is some really solid information here that is not easily found in everyday media. Read it and be informed and make up your own mind knowing that there are no easy answers. Read more
Published 8 months ago by shottup
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