What if the cash spent on flawed eco schemes went on new green tech that TRULY worked? | Daily Mail Online

What if the cash spent on flawed eco schemes went on new green tech that TRULY worked?| Daily Mail Online BJORN LOMBORG

• The great ecological delusion: Costly heat pumps that barely work, electric cars recharged by diesel generators... but what if the cash spent on flawed schemes went on new green tech that REALLY worked?

...Unfortunately, our research also shows that most popular climate policies offer comparatively poor returns on investment to society.
...The Ugandan president put it bluntly: 'Africans have a right to use reliable, cheap energy.'
...The renewable energy sources favoured by the vast majority of environmental activists in wealthier nations have two big problems.

• First, they take up a vast amount of space...
• Second, and of even greater importance, the two most common renewable energy technologies are intermittent or unreliable. Solar energy isn't produced when it is overcast or at night-time. Wind energy requires a breeze...Modern society requires 24 hours of non-stop power, when there's no sun or wind, so fossil fuels are still needed.

...Continuing to do what the EU has done, cutting carbon with a mixture of market and planning diktats, has avoided just 3 pence worth of global damage for each pound spent so far.
...What did work was the Green Revolution (CO2), innovating higher-yielding crops. 

It is likely this saved a billion people from starvation...Read all!