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Beware Green Technocrats: Unelected, Unaccountable, Unremitting

• http://www.technocracy.news, BY: ALTERNATE AUTHOR

Ask people what the UK's biggest housing problems are, and most will tell you, rightly, that there aren't enough homes, and that prices and rents are far too high. But UK policymakers are preoccupied by something else and have been for a long time: that our homes contribute to, and are at risk from, global warming.

So it was that a non-departmental public body, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), announced last week that 'UK homes are not fit for the future', and that tough new building standards and enforcement will be necessary. Most shocking of all, the CCC said 'no new homes should be connected to the gas grid', and that gas central heating and plumbing should therefore be phased out.

Saving the planet, and homes, from the ravages of climate change is a good idea. But the CCC's claims are questionable. As I reported here during last Summer's heatwave, the CCC, like many climate alarmists, has a tendency to exaggerate risk and lose historical perspective. In truth, homes are actually better protected from the slightly warmer, slightly wetter and slightly windier weather that scientists predict might be our future than they were even a generation ago.


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