With the UK set to hit record temperatures today, a Kent MP has questioned why we don't "grumble" about the hot weather when we're abroad, but do at home.

Craig Mackinlay, who represents South Thanet, also says the "£3 trillion" cost of reaching "net zero" on greenhouse gas missions is a "virtue-signal".

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"As we bask in hot weather many will claim, as ever, this is the reality of global warming.

"That may be so, but we’ve had heatwaves before and one need only look at the weather patterns in the USA in the 1930s which were truly brutal with extended record-breaking hot weather.

"One thing I can guarantee, with a high degree of certainty, is that the weather will revert to overcast, windy and rainy for the summer holidays.

"Strange isn’t it that we look to travelling abroad to similar temperatures with a smile but grumble when we have similar here, however irregularly.

"But let’s say yes, this is because of human activity and will be an ongoing feature of the UK weather pattern.

"We are looking at a cost of £3 trillion to reach net zero, probably now more as the £3tn was based on building the infrastructure, laying the cables, making the concrete, smelting the metals, making the batteries etc. on the back of lower-cost energy and upon copper and commodities costs far lower than what we’re seeing today.

"Just to put this into context, this is about 150% of the entire annual output of the UK economy or 1,500 times the size of the annual Kent County Council budget. We are responsible for just 1% of global output of CO2.

"Growing nations like China, India and Indonesia are ramping up their coal production so their economies can grow on the back of cheaper energy and their populations can be taken further out of poverty.

"Even if our costly endeavours got our 1% of CO2 output to zero, I can hardly see that spending £3 trillion or more can be good value or will do anything at all beyond being a costly ‘virtue-signal’.

"Better, I’d have thought, to spend on adaptation to a changing climate.

"This eye-watering amount of money could buy a lot of home insulation, expand traditional domestic energy supply, eliminate practically every domestic funding shortfall, plant a lot of trees, improve sea defences if necessary and be a force for real good in the world."

According to the BBC, in July last year the Office for Budget Responsibility costed the government's "Balanced Net Zero Pathway" at £1.4tn (at 2019 prices).

When combined with savings from things like more energy-efficient buildings and vehicles, the OBR says the net cost to the state up to 2050 will be £344bn in real terms.