Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Guardian is upset that the British Government foreign minister Boris Johnson has cut the number of staff tasked with negotiating international acceptance of global climate treaties and initiatives.
Foreign Office climate staff cut by 25% under Boris Johnson
Damian Carrington
Environment editor
Exclusive: The prime minister says the UK leads the world on climate action, but Foreign Office officials dedicated to the issue have plunged since 2016
The number of full-time officials dedicated to climate change in the Foreign Office has dropped by almost 25% in the two years since Boris Johnson became foreign secretary, according to data released under freedom of information (FoI) rules.
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“It is extremely disappointing,” said Prof Sir David King, who was the foreign secretary’s special envoy for climate change from September 2013 until March 2017.
“Yes, we have the Paris agreement, but everybody knows the difference between what the agreement says – if possible no more than 1.5C rise – and what countries have promised is enormous,” he said. “There is a very big amount of work to be done. Other countries have had an enormous amount of respect for what Britain has delivered. If you then cut back the British effort then of course there is a real danger that the focus drifts away.”
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The Guardian also notes that Boris Johnson poked fun at climate change in 2015.
I can’t stand this December heat, but it has nothing to do with global warming
By Boris Johnson
We may all be sweating in the winter air, but remember, we humans have always put ourselves at the centre of cosmic events
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Imagine if we have nothing in these long, dark months save a muggy and melancholy mildness, soft, damp and unwholesome; nothing but rain and a louring grey sky pressing down on our hungover eyeballs. The thought made me feel almost unwell.
In my despair, I rang the great physicist and meteorologist Piers Corbyn. You know Piers: he is the older brother of Jezza, and he is famous for believing that the world – on the whole – is getting colder, and that the whole global warming theory is unsound, to say the least. Piers thinks that whatever the role of humanity in affecting the temperature of the planet, that role is pitifully trivial next to the Sun, the supercolossal boiling ball of gas about which we revolve and which enables life on Earth.
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Boris Johnson came close to being Britain’s Prime Minister in 2016, but his leadership campaign was derailed when one of his key political allies, current British Environment Minister Michael Gove, abruptly withdrew his support for Johnson’s candidacy.
… “This was a carefully planned assassination,” an ally said. “It was systematic and calculated to do the maximum damage to Boris.
“When he saw his opportunity for an act of midnight treachery he took it.” …
I doubt Boris Johnson is a serious climate skeptic. Boris Johnson has poked fun at climate dogma a few times, which greens obviously find unforgivable; but Boris Johnson also seems content to be a senior figure in a one of the deepest green governments in Britain’s history.
Well, it is high time that someone put a stop to this abject nonsense. 25% is 75% short of a proper effort.
At least it’s a promising start from old Bozzer, and it’s always fun to see the Grauniad and it’s legion of swivel-eyed lefty readers get their knickers in a twist.
I think I’m detecting a correlation between hairstyle and unexpected displays of commonsense.from politicians, Of course I might have it the wrong way round; maybe the commonsense causes the hairstyle instead.
Don’t be fooled for a second. This ‘government’ is hell bent on the complete and utter destruction of the UK at the behest of their totalitarian Globalist masters and by the most expedient means possible. Despite years of promises to reduce immigration to manageable levels of a few tens of thousands per annum it is still at around the half million mark. These tiny islands are absorbing enough people to create a city the size of Southampton each and every year. This while social tensions and crime rates soar at completely unprecedented out-of-control levels and infrastructure and services creak and groan under the insupportable load.
It is self-evidently absolutely unsustainable and yet there is no sign of any policy aimed at even the smallest reduction in the numbers arriving visible anywhere on the horizon. If we don’t find some way to stop the extreme left wing authoritarian lunatics who have this country by the throat we are finished in a matter of a few short years. This ‘government’ is waging a war of total annihilation against its own people while they listen to the soothing outright lies of its BBC propaganda wing and are blissfully unaware of their own imminent fate. The US Founding Fathers knew what they were about when writing the Second Amendment.
“The Guardian is upset that the British Government foreign minister Boris Johnson has cut the number of staff tasked with negotiating international acceptance of global climate treaties and initiatives.”
If I was a Brit, I’d be upset about this as well: it should have been a 100% cut!
In the UK every town council employs a team of climate change advisers and managers; all keen to go on climate change junckets. We are in the vice like grip of globe warming extremists due to EU membership. We need a liberating figure like Donald Trump to free us from this tyrrany.
The U.S. State Department has an “Office of Global Change” whose staff functions much like their British counterparts. This office would appear ripe for similar staff cuts, based on the Trump Administration’s views on the U.N. climate agencies, the Paris Accord, etc.
Does Boris Johnson, or anyone elected in Britain, stand for anything?
The only people who read the Guardian work for BBC News and current affairs programmes. They are a left wing public sector broadcaster funded by a compulsory
tax and only quote what the Guardian says when reviewing the newspapers – they are very conscious of the fact and concerned that nobody reads it.