When faced with blackmail and bullying, the appropriate response is to stand firm.
The cabinet minister who led last year’s landmark Cop26 UN climate summit has made a dramatic intervention in the Tory leadership race, suggesting he could resign if the incoming prime minister fails to commit to a strong agenda on the climate crisis.
In an interview with the Observer, Alok Sharma said a total commitment to the net zero agenda from whoever is to lead the country would be essential to avoid “incredible damage” to Britain’s global standing, as well as irreversible harm to the UK and international economies.
The response to this needs to be firm. Net zero is deeply damaging and entirely unnecessary. So out of the door it is, then. That should be the response. Whether it is or not remains to be seen. I’m not holding my breath.
His comments came as the UK braced itself for record-breaking temperatures of 40C (104F) over the coming days, while fires raged across large parts of the continent.
Sigh, it’s the summer. We get heatwaves in the summer. I remember 1976 when we had weeks of it and it was glorious. They will be complaining about it being cold in the winter next… Oh…
I have no doubt that the climate is changing. That’s what it does. Constantly. For millennia.
There’s a reason the snow-blasted, icy rock that is Greenland is called so. Because it used to be covered in green vegetation, because of the climate being considerably warmer than now. In an age before oil.
I heartily recommend visiting Bill Sticker’s site, his new article on Spectre will go hand in hand with your post.
Never heard of Alok Sharma but no doubt whoever or whatever it is will become a household name to honour her/him/they/it in due course, maybe we’ll be told to bang pots and pans of an evening to show our complicity/surrender/agreement/awe, if nothing else the exercise will help keep the proles warm when they they can’t afford to heat their hovels.
Does it make a scrap of difference which of the current runners makes it to number 10, swapping one failing WEF puppet for another is the biggest non event of the year.
One cannot help but think that the correct response to this little popinjay is:
“Oh dear, how sad. Now fuck off”
Anyone who uses the words “Climate Crisis” is by definition a deluded idiot who needs to be ignored. Those fires are always the result of poor forest management, before humans came along they were part of a natural process. Those record temperatures are beating previous records set early in the last century by a few tenths of a degree. This is despite modern equipment that can detect brief temperature spikes that don’t appear on the old data. Any record set at an airport can safely be ignored or responded to with merciless mockery.
Must be global warming:
https://www.tropicnow.com.au/2022/july/14/cold-weather-records-fall-and-frost-descends-in-cairns-and-far-north-queensland
I laughed when the Beeb reported that he threatens to resign unless… The twat imagines that he will have a job under the new regime? Seriously?
Wigner’s Friend got it right. I have friends who live just South of Sydney. They recently went on holiday to Cairns and wished they’d taken more warm clothing: to the tropics!
1976 was not the hottest record, heat wise. It was perhaps the longest period of drought, that started may 1975 and lasted through till Sept 1976. Throughout the UK June to August recorded temps above 25°c and for 15 consecutive days 32°c. At the highest it was 35.9°c.
What we have now is unpredictable weather, we seem to have more storms and now they are talking about naming heat waves.
People do have to be careful with the heat, same as the cold, but I do feel the press are looking for something that isn’t there.
Net Zero” COULD be immensely profitable, if you stopped using yesterday’s model – yes?
DO NOT invest in stagecoaches or canals, when it’s 1840 …
Invest in electrical & “real green” ( i.e the opposite of the Green Party, who are arsholes ) projects & you are away.
The days of coal & oil are done.