It is long past time for serious news outlets to significantly reduce the exposure of the lobby hacks’ output. They are barely more useful to any serious policy debate than celebrity gossip columnists most of the time.
So it’s pretty clear the New Statesman writer saw the pull quote in Politico, didn’t bother reading the actual report and then wrote 800 words attacking Blair and impugning his motives
Excellent article and rebuttal to those folk who criticised without reading. If it had not been Tony Blair it would have been published with out much comment, which maybe a good or bad thing.
It’s often assumed that developing countries are going to be using fossil fuels for longer, but many of them are adopting renewables as quickly as we are. Solar is cheaper than gas or oil if you don’t have any reserves of your own. It’s fair to say that they also won’t be shutting down existing coal plants any time soon either though.
I really want to be an enthusiast for nuclear but bloody hell it has to be cheaper than Hinkley Point C.
Good article, and I agree that there are things that we need to deal with in developing nations before we worry about Mr Smith down the road still driving his diesel Land Rover. However, I will continue to remain sceptical about either nuclear or carbon capture ever providing more than a small element of the solution.
This storm-in-teacup is what happens when political reporters rather than scientific reporters are the gatekeepers for climate discourse.
*Slightly* disagree here - pure science reporters sometimes ignore politics (“why can’t we just ban people from flying?” etc).
The true heroes and arbiters of truth are, er, generalist Substackers.
It is long past time for serious news outlets to significantly reduce the exposure of the lobby hacks’ output. They are barely more useful to any serious policy debate than celebrity gossip columnists most of the time.
So it’s pretty clear the New Statesman writer saw the pull quote in Politico, didn’t bother reading the actual report and then wrote 800 words attacking Blair and impugning his motives
Nice work if you can get it
Excellent article and rebuttal to those folk who criticised without reading. If it had not been Tony Blair it would have been published with out much comment, which maybe a good or bad thing.
It’s often assumed that developing countries are going to be using fossil fuels for longer, but many of them are adopting renewables as quickly as we are. Solar is cheaper than gas or oil if you don’t have any reserves of your own. It’s fair to say that they also won’t be shutting down existing coal plants any time soon either though.
I really want to be an enthusiast for nuclear but bloody hell it has to be cheaper than Hinkley Point C.
Good article, and I agree that there are things that we need to deal with in developing nations before we worry about Mr Smith down the road still driving his diesel Land Rover. However, I will continue to remain sceptical about either nuclear or carbon capture ever providing more than a small element of the solution.