Joanne Nova: Deniers are everywhere. The race is on to be a skeptic now.....

Deniers are everywhere. The race is on to be a skeptic now — Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

So many political leaders are backtracking on green policies, Bloomberg laments the Climate Deniers are Hiding in Plain Sight.

Sir Kier Starmer was a star at the last COP meeting in Azerbaijan, but this year he doesn’t even want to go to the next COP meeting in Brazil. Apparently his aides “are worried about being criticized by the Reform UK party.” Only two years ago Starmer was criticizing Rishi Sunak for missing COP27, now he’s too scared to go himself lest he look crazy-green.

Everywhere countries are saying they care about climate change but are doing the opposite. The EU nations are fighting over their 2035 and 2040 emissions targets, Mexico is borrowing up to keep its oil company afloat, Canada scrapped their carbon tax, and is being “coy” about their 2030 target. Governor Gavin Newsom just boosted oil drilling in California “a year after he described the industry as the “polluted heart of this climate crisis.””

Now Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Tories in the UK, is promising to dump The Climate Change Act if she gets elected. Suddenly, the race is on to be skeptical. She’s in an existential fight for relevance against the storming Reform party which are polling as high as 29% now, compared to the Labour government on 21% and the Tories at just 16%. All those skeptical voters were there all along, enough to break the two party system in Britain.

The Climate Voodoo Doll is coming undone

Ponder how fast it all is. Only one year ago UK voters had a choice of Net Zero by 2050 from both sides of politics. Labour were offering to be recklessly green, and the Tories were aiming to be 95% as reckless, while calling themselves “pragmatic”.

The BBC lays out how similar the two main Parties were in 2024 — Labour wanted to decarbonize the whole grid by 2030, while the Tories were aiming for “only” 95% of the grid to be low carbon by 2030. Labour hoped to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, but Richi Sunak pushed that back all the way to… 2035.

Then Trump won, and Nigel Farage stood up and said it is ‘absolutely nuts to call CO2 a pollutant‘, and the crowd roared. Somehow, improbably, Farage is now “nearly as trusted” as Labour on climate change, which only shows how many skeptical voters there are. They trust him to get rid of climate parasites.

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

Fiona Harvey and Helena Horton, The Guardian Thu 2 Oct 2025

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to repeal the Climate Change Act if the Conservatives win the next election, doing away with controls on greenhouse gas emissions and dismantling what has been the cornerstone of green and energy policy for successive governments.

The Conservative party leader was already committed to scrapping the UK’s net zero target but repeal of the Climate Change Act would go much further. It would remove the need to meet “carbon budgets” – ceilings, set for five-year periods, on the amount of greenhouse gas that can be emitted – and disband the Climate Change Committee, the watchdog that advises on how policies affect the UK’s carbon footprint….

Badenoch’s announcement, before the start of the Conservative party conference this weekend, brings the destruction of the three-decade long consensus on the climate among the UK’s major political parties, under which all have campaigned on strengthening climate action rather than weakening it.

Playing a game of “slightly less crazy” was a hopeless trap for the Conservatives. The people trying to be a small target are the weaklings of climate battles. They have nothing to campaign on. They can hardly point out all the flaws in climate policy when they want to make most of the same mistakes. Instead the crazy people look like they have conviction (at least), and the less crazy people just look weak. (I’m looking at you Sussan Ley).

When Prime Ministers are promising to control the weather with power stations, the only response is mockery and derision.

As it happens, even after busting the 17 year Uniparty consensus, Badenoch is still not much of a skeptic:

Badenoch says: “Climate change is real. But Labour’s laws tied us in red tape, loaded us with costs, and did nothing to cut global emissions. Previous Conservative governments tried to make Labour’s climate laws work – they don’t.

She says “climate change is real” so the crocodiles won’t eat her first, but it doesn’t work. Donald Trump didn’t pander or pussy-foot and look where it got him — elected twice (and probably three times)?

Once a leader breaks the sacred climate vow in any way, they are an Apostate — there’s no point being half-an-Apostate, because The Blob will throw just as many bricks. But there is something inspiring about a leader who takes the bullies on directly instead. Being fearless is inspiring.

Everything is a catastrophe

Former British PM Theresa May, speaking on behalf of The Blob, called Badenoch’s move a “catastrophic mistake”. It wasn’t that thousands would drown, instead a catastrophe was something that broke “the consensus”.

Responding to Ms Badenoch’s plans, the Tory peer said: “I am deeply disappointed by this retrograde step which upends 17 years of consensus between our main political parties and the scientific community.

As if there was something wonderful about both political parties and the scientific community all saying the same thing at the same time.

As Dave in the States says: “It’s catastrophe for grifters, and the subsidy and grant harvesters. “

And isn’t this just the perfect quote?:

“To row back now would be a catastrophic mistake for while that consensus is being tested, the science remains the same.”

The science is always the same, anything else is not permitted.

Joanne Nova is a prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. This article was sourced HERE