We can’t electrify everything without reliable energy

The latest Carbon Budget report wants us to cut meat, drive EVs, and install heat pumps. But what about the baseload?

Earlier this year, the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) published its Seventh Carbon Budget report. Yet adequate public scrutiny of the report since then - from the media, experts, or public figures - has been sorely lacking. More concerningly, a notable criticism that I did come across had been quietly removed from the internet. When I contacted the p…