So the IPCC has issued its starkest warning yet about the state of the climate; and Boris Johnson has said that we citizens of planet Earth need to phase out coal. In January, I predicted that as 2021 progresses, we’ll see an increasing number of net zero claims, some more spurious than others. I should…

On Tuesday last week, the traditionally fossil-fuel supporting International Energy Agency (IEA) published an astonishing report, entitled “Net Zero by 2050, a Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector“. Amongst the headlines, the IEA suggests that if humanity is to reach (net) zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, we must stop developing new oil and…