Net Zero intolerance: The Tory faction seeking a “climate referendum”

The Bunker

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🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Net Zero Scrutiny Group shares ties with the likes of the late Nigel Lawson and his network of “climate deniers”. They like fracking and have tried to link the cost-of-living crisis to the government’s net zero goals. But exactly who are they? What do they stand for? And who funds them? Andrew Harrison is joined by Sam Alvis, head of economy at The Green Alliance, to unpack exactly that. “They are no longer denying that climate change is a thing, but what they are saying is that actually the cost of it is much more of an issue.” “Often with these groups, and particularly with the net zero group, it's easier to understand what they don't like; the one thing we know they do like is fracking.” “It’s murky, we don’t really know where the money comes from to support the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.” Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Andrew Harrison. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Producer: Chris Jones. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production, Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.0	When Margaret Thatcher's one-time Chancellor Nigel Lawson died in March, age 91, the tributes were effusive. The late Lord Lawson was a giant, a
1:25.4	titan, a maverick committed unbeliever who had lessons for today's pessimists. His economic reforms,
1:31.4	including wholesale privatizations and the ending of the 60% top tax rate,
1:35.6	were credited with making the Thatcher Revolution irreversible.
1:39.5	But the obituaries only likely touched on what they called his climate skepticism, a strange
1:44.0	formulation given that outright climate denial formed the centre of Lawson's activities in the final
1:49.2	two decades of his life.
1:51.2	Lawson co-founded an outfit called the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which churns
1:55.5	up papers attacking or misrepresenting climate science.
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