Lord Frost has been accused of creating «negative tropes». In the UK, according to Lord Frost, seven times more people die from cold than from heat.
A former Brexit negotiator said that the decrease in mortality associated with low temperatures, the number of deaths associated with warmer temperatures since the turn of the millennium, urging the government to deal with climate change differently.
He told the Lords it would be «rational» to «move away from the current costly mitigation efforts, efforts that also involve huge investments in unproductive renewable energy sources, huge lifestyle changes, and crushing economic growth.”
Lord Frost said that mitigation should be done by «investing in the efficient production of energy, nuclear, gas and other technologies as they become available, and in the meantime spend the manageable amounts we need on adaptation so that we can adjust to quite manageable consequences. slow rise in temperature. as they appear.”
He said, “Now I'm not skeptical about adaptation. I am skeptical about mitigation.”
His comments came as the Conservative Party plunged into controversy over its net-zero commitments.
After Labor failed to win a by-election in Uxbridge amid backlash from voters over the expansion of London's ultra-low (Ulez) under Labor Mayor Sadiq Khan, the Tory party called on her to rethink some of her own climate change policies.
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In an interview, Rishi Sunak said the government would «make progress towards net zero» but «proportionately and pragmatically», declining to say bluntly that the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars ahead in 2030 as planned.
Activists have said now is not the right time to hesitate on zero commitments, pointing to last week's record global temperatures and wildfires raging on the Greek island of Rhodes as evidence of the catastrophic effects of climate change.
< p>Lord Frost. said that in the UK «more would need to be spent on things like flood protection and reservoirs», but added: «Digging deeper, what are the implications of hotter and warmer summers and warmer and wetter winters? At the moment, in Britain, seven times more people die from the cold than from the heat. Raising the temperature will probably do the trick.
“The State Actuary’s Department, however, wrote in April this year, and I quote: “It is the low winter temperatures that have the greatest impact on the number of deaths.”
“Since the beginning of the millennium, the decrease in mortality from cold spells has more than offset an increase in warmer-related deaths over the same period.»
Baroness Jones of Moulsecum, member of the Green Party, accused Lord Frost of reading «right-wing conspiracy theories» and creating «negative clichés.»
Lord Callanan, Secretary of Energy said: «Adaptation and net zero actually go hand in hand — achievement net zero actually requires adaptation. We have a huge opportunity to make substantial net zero investments that are resilient to current and future climate change risks, and this can of course prevent future higher costs.
“Let me, to avoid any doubt, confirm that achieving net zero is certainly vital for this government.”
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