🔥 The Climate Change Cult: Britain’s Descent Into Climate Hell

Inspired by Dante, executed by Whitehall — our slow march into green orthodoxy gets its seven-level guided tour.

Opening Descent: When Did Net Zero Become Britain’s Official Religion?

Remember when "going green" meant rinsing yoghurt pots and feeling virtuous? Now you're funding a trillion-pound state cult — complete with priesthood, catechism, indulgences, heresies, and excommunications. Governments chant their Net Zero vows like monks before sunrise, and the slightest heresy invites excommunication. so lets take a journey through the levels of this cult.

1️⃣ First Level —🦄 The Magical Tech Unicorns (The False Prophets)

The first: the fantasy technologies that aren’t quite here yet — but salvation is always "just around the corner." Hydrogen grids, small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), direct air capture, and nuclear fusion are preached like revealed scripture: believe, tithe generously, and salvation will arrive in 2049.

Unfortunately, engineering doesn’t run on faith:

• Hydrogen leaks easily, is explosively dangerous, and requires three times the energy to move and store compared to natural gas. Despite endless pilot schemes, there are still no fully operational national hydrogen grids anywhere on earth.

• Small Modular Reactors were supposed to be cheap and fast — but UK SMR costs have already ballooned, with Rolls-Royce’s designs still awaiting commercial approval. Every projected price per megawatt-hour keeps rising — and delivery timelines keep slipping.

• Direct Air Capture (DAC) requires vast amounts of energy to capture minuscule amounts of CO₂ — at current costs of £400–600 per tonne removed, far higher than any practical carbon pricing. And what exactly are we trying to vacuum up? CO₂ makes up just 0.04% of the entire atmosphere, with 97% of that naturally produced by oceans, plants, volcanoes, and the biosphere. Humanity contributes only about 3% of the total CO₂, yet we are spending billions trying to suck out fractions of a trace gas that nature mostly manages without government subsidies.

• Fusion has been "30 years away" since the 1950s. The 2022 hype around breakthroughs still leaves commercial fusion plants at least decades from reality — assuming they ever become financially viable at scale.

Meanwhile, ministers declare every pilot scheme “world-leading,” which usually translates as: “we’re not sure if it works yet, but we spent your money anyway.”

2️⃣ Second Level — 💰 ( The Invisible £££ Rabbit in the Hat (The Treasury Torturers)

By some estimates, Net Zero policies already add £17 billion annually to UK consumer costs. Over the next four years of a Labour government, that’s £68 billion gone — not into hospitals, schools, or police, but into green subsidies, foreign supply chains, and failed pilot projects.

To put that £68 billion into perspective:

• It could pay for 425,000 teachers for four full years.

• Or 485,000 nurses.

• Or 242,000 doctors.

• Or fund circa, 570,000 SEND support workers — fixing every broken special needs provision in the country several times over.

But instead, keep believing, the public is told to have faith, while those being paid to develop this "urgently needed technology" are laughing all the way to the bank.

3️⃣ Third Level — 🌳Emissions on Tour (The Offsetting Charlatans)

If you can’t cut your own emissions directly, simply outsource them. Some of Britain’s biggest companies — and indeed parts of our national consumption — quietly shift their carbon guilt abroad. We import manufactured goods from countries with weaker standards while claiming domestic emissions progress. It's like going on a diet but outsourcing the cake-eating to someone else.

Then there’s the booming carbon offsetting industry: land grabs, tree plantations, and forest preservation schemes across the world allow both corporations and governments to claim virtue while others handle the dirty work. Trees have become carbon confessional booths — plant three hail forests and carry on polluting.

Of course, many offsets are hilariously dodgy. Forests never under threat get “saved,” some projects sell credits multiple times, and double-counting the same forest for both national and corporate ledgers remains an unresolved mess. Even the UN has quietly admitted that large parts of the offsetting market are wide open to abuse, with some schemes little more than elaborate green scams dressed up in spreadsheets.

In truth, much of this market is creative accounting worthy of Renaissance indulgence sellers.

4️⃣ Fourth Level —🥫 When the Audience Throws Tomatoes (The Public's Revolt)

Turns out, not everyone enjoys paying £5,000 for a heat pump or driving EVs that cost as much as small yachts. But in Britain, we get an added bonus: the most expensive energy bills in Europe — quite an achievement for a country sitting on its own North Sea gas reserves.

How did we pull off this miracle? Simple: decades of green levies, renewable subsidies, carbon pricing schemes, imported gas dependency, and a broken market design where the highest-cost generator sets the price for everyone. Today, over £10 billion a year in green policy costs are baked directly into consumer bills — adding roughly £150–£200 per year per household, whether your home is 'green' or not.

Then layer on billions more in taxpayer subsidies for offshore wind, biomass imports, carbon certificates, and you’ve built a system where the public pays for both the fuel and the virtue signalling — every single month.

And all of this is justified by the high priests of climate orthodoxy, who repeat the same incantation: “We must act now, or face the end of days.” No debate. No dissent. No cost-benefit discussion. Just faith in the great green salvation, paid for monthly on your direct debit.

Ordinary voters seem less eager to worship at the climate altar when their bills arrive like papal tax collectors in winter. France saw the Yellow Vests. Dutch farmers revolted. And Britain? We’re only a few blackout winters away from our own Reformation.

5️⃣ Fifth Level — 🧪CCS Shenanigans: The Miracle of Bottled CO₂ (The Unproven Gamble)

Next, witness carbon capture — where you pump CO₂ underground and hope geology holds. The high priests of carbon capture assure us gases buried two miles down will stay there for millennia. Have faith.

Early projects like Chevron’s Gorgon have mostly under-delivered. The UK plans to spend over £20 billion of public funds on CCS, while lifetime costs may reach £250 billion. Meanwhile, questions remain about long-term leakage, induced seismicity, and who pays when seals fail decades later.

And just to keep the show on the road, in 2023 the UK signed another multi-billion-pound CCS contract with Italian energy giant ENI for the Liverpool Bay Project. This plan will bury industrial emissions from the North West under the old gas fields of Liverpool Bay. The government has promised generous taxpayer support — because nothing says "sound energy policy" like paying foreign companies to pump gases into holes we just finished emptying.

Of course, let’s not forget: long-term storage at this scale remains entirely unproven. We are gambling billions on the hope that these reservoirs won’t leak over the next 100, 500, or 1,000 years. If they do — future generations will inherit not just our debt, but our pressurised gas pockets too, which could poison the environment around it. Hasn’t anyone heard about the dangers of CO2 - the silent killer.

6️⃣ Sixth Level — 🚢 Biomass Bingo: Importing Trees to Save the Planet (The Imported Heresy)

Nothing screams carbon virtue like burning forests shipped 4,000 miles. Drax Power Station in Yorkshire consumes 8 million tonnes of compressed American wood pellets yearly. The shipping alone emits around 500,000 tonnes of CO₂ — a number conveniently parked under "international emissions" where nobody counts it.

We spend over £1 billion a year subsidising this exercise, while EU scientists openly question whether biomass is even carbon neutral. But as long as the hymn sheet says "renewable," all is forgiven.

The absurdity deepens:For less than the cost of a single year’s biomass subsidies, Britain could have simply fitted modern smoke scrubbers to its existing coal stations. These systems can remove over 95% of pollutants — sulphur, particulates, mercury — leaving CO₂ levels comparable to gas-fired plants. The scrubbers would last decades, running on domestic fuel without the 4,000-mile shipping circus. But alas, in the climate church, coal was one of the original sins, while imported wood from half way around the world, earns indulgences.

7️⃣ Seventh Level —🔋 Charging the Stampede: EVs vs The National Grid (The Impractical Salvation)

Ah yes, electric cars — the gateway drug of green virtue. But how do you power 37 million EVs? The National Grid estimates UK electricity demand will rise 50% by 2035 and double by 2050.

That means we need roughly 50 GW of new generating capacity — basically building another entire National Grid from scratch.

To achieve this, we would need to build:

• 10 brand new nuclear plants like Sizewell C — each taking 10–15 years to construct.

  • Constructing 10 nuclear plants takes approximately 5.5 million tonnes of cement

  • producing 5.5 million tonnes of cement would emit around 5.0 million tonnes of CO₂.

• Or 100 GW of new gas plants — which we’re told we aren’t allowed to build.

  • You would need approximately 200 gas plant units (each at 500 MW)

  • that would require around 10 million tonnes of cement.

  • Producing that cement would emit roughly 9 million tonnes of CO₂.

• Or 125 GW of offshore wind farms — requiring dozens more mega-projects, each taking 5–8 years.

  • This is approximately 8,929 turbines (based on modern 14 MW units.)

  • That would require roughly 5.8 million tonnes of cement just for the foundations,

  • Producing 5.8 million tonnes of cement you would need to emit approximately 5.2 million tonnes of CO₂

• Or 167 GW of onshore wind farms — assuming local residents, planning laws, and common sense don’t block them for the next three decades.

  • This is approximately 33,400 turbines (assuming modern 5 MW onshore turbines). That would require about 4.2 million tonnes of cement for the foundations.

  • Producing that cement amount of cement would emit around 3.8 million tonnes of CO₂.

Of course, regulators insist “smart charging” will solve this — just plug in, let the AI ration your juice, and pray there’s no software update overnight. However someone forgotten to point it we still need to provide all of this new demand, just because smart charges can flatten demand, doesnt change the need for 50% more electricity.

Meanwhile, we’re still paying wind farms £783 million annually to turn off when the grid can’t handle excess power, while gas backup plants get £637 million to fire up elsewhere. Yes, you pay twice — for electricity you didn’t even receive.

And who’s signing off the cheques for this grand experiment? Step forward Rachel from Accounts, the cult’s high treasurer, calmly authorising billions for green virtue while the rest of us fund her spreadsheet salvation.

Someone really does need to do their maths again.

🔥 The Cult’s Throne Room: The Net Zero Priesthood

And here we arrive.

In Britain, Net Zero isn’t policy — it’s theology. Dissenters are heretics; nuance is apostasy. The Labour government even installed its own climate priest: Ed Miliband, High Pontiff of Decarbonisation, delivering homilies about 2030 targets while quietly eyeing your gas boiler.

Every failed policy is forgiven because the goal remains righteous. No sacrifice is too great. No alternative shall be debated. Thus, Net Zero becomes a cult — a fusion of fear, virtue signalling, careerism, and blind faith.

📜 Contrarian Corner: Quick‑Fire Skeptic Sound‑Bites

Not all of us are believers; The problem for the scientific community is as soon as you step outside the theology of the cult, your funding dries up… but there are some brave souls

1. Dr Patrick Moore 🌱 🤷

   (Co-founder of Greenpeace.. yes co-founder, just think about that)

   – Says CO₂ is "plant food" and we’d be greener, literally, with double today’s levels.

2. Polar-Bear Plot Twist 🐻‍❄️

   (Themselves -without even reading an article – They dont believe!)

   Head-count up from ~22,000 (2005) to ~26,000 (2023); sceptics ask, "Where’s the melt-down?"

3. Prof Roger Pielke Jr. 🏠 📈

   (Climate policy expert at University of Colorado)

   Climate policy expert who shows that while headlines scream about rising disaster costs, most of it simply reflects that we’ve built more expensive homes, businesses and infrastructure. Once you adjust for inflation and wealth, storms aren’t getting worse — we’ve just put more stuff in harm’s way

4. Dr Judith Curry 📉 🤦

   (Former Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech)

   – Once a leading IPCC scientist, now calls much of the climate panic exaggerated, the models unreliable, and the politics corrupted.

5. Michael Shellenberger 📢 😱

   (Former green activist, founder of Environmental Progress)

   – Ex-green activist who argues the climate movement has become a secular doomsday cult feeding public anxiety.

6. Dr Steven Koonin 📚 🧪

   (Former Under Secretary for Science in the Obama Administration and author of Unsettled)

   Also Former Obama advisor who says, "The science isn’t settled; it’s barely mature."

7. Prof Ian Plimer 🌋 🧮

   (Geologist and professor emeritus at University of Melbourne)

   – Australian geologist who argues that 97% of CO₂ emissions come from natural sources like oceans, volcanoes, and the biosphere — with humans responsible for only 3%. “We are arguing about a rounding error while nature runs the carbon cycle.”

8. Viscount Matt Ridley 🎩 🔮

   (British hereditary peer, scientist, author (The Rational Optimist))

   – UK academic and hereditary peer who calls Net Zero “a dangerous delusion,” warning that ordinary people will carry the costs while freedom shrinks and crony capitalists get rich. “It’s a religion — not science.”

And what about you? 👉🧐

So are you a follower of the cult or are you willing to do the research and look for yourself. Let me know your comments