Amid the murky world of climate politics is a constellation of organisations vying for influence, awash with cash, all pushing on the green juggernaut, regardless of what the broader public wants or needs. The public’s views, interests and wishes count very little in any corridors of power, where only the alignment of academia, global agencies, and NGOs is required. Behind the interventions of every fake charity, dodgy academic outfit, and mysterious think tank, are the same-old-same-old weirdo billionaire philanthropists.

But is this unique to climate? This week’s guests has revealed that it surely is not. Charlotte Gill, whose investigations can be found in The Sunday Telegraph, The Critic, the Daily Sceptic, and elsewhere has begun to audit what she calls Woke Waste — the frivolous frittering away of vast amounts of public money on some very odd ‘academic research’. And she has also charted the flows of cash to countless organisations that dominate the public sphere with very particular views on climate change, so-called ‘assisted dying’, Britain’s membership of the EU, and transgender ideology.

You can find Charlotte on Twitter @CharlotteCGill and her websites at charlottecgill.co.uk and Woke Waste.

It takes a lot of patience, hard work, and a determined mindset to get to the bottom of claims about how much the UK’s climate and green energy policies are already costing us, and how much they are likely to cost us in the future. There is the physics of energy generation, and there are the relative merits and demerits of conventional verses green tech. And there are the constraints of the power grid itself. And then there is a bewildering energy wholesale energy market, the complexity of which is magnified by different subsidy regimes, attempts to fix policy failures, and a constant addition of expensive new green generators. Then there is the retail market, from which you and I buy the energy we use, at ever increasing prices.

Buried beneath the green politicians', wonks', academics' and companies claims about the benefits of renewable energy is the inconvenient data. In this week's episode, David Turver of the Eigen Values Substack sheds some light on the eco-darkness.

Climate science has many problems. But rather than confronting these issues in open and transparent debate, advocates of climate policies seek to shut down and slander their critics. In this episode, we hear from Marcel Crok, founder of Clintel — Climate Intelligence — a global movement of scientists and others who “aim to be the voice of reason in the often overheated climate debate”. And for many years, Marcel has been urging the Dutch government and others to understand the importance of debate to seemingly science-based policy.