13 Apr 2021, 23:38 | Updated: 13 Apr 2021, 23:39
BORIS Johnson is now battling alone on the world stage to save the COP26 climate conference this year as other countries demand it be delayed.
Ministers are reluctant to put the international summit on Zoom instead, meaning a delay for a second year running looks more and more likely.
Government sources stressed they want an in-person and “inclusive” event to bring world leaders together to fight climate change.
But insiders admitted it’s up in the air thanks to rising Covid cases around the world.
A diplomatic source told The Sun: “Britain is increasingly isolated on this front.
“No one in Europe thinks it’s going to happen and the US are increasingly sceptical it can happen without a delay.”
President Biden is hosting a virtual climate summit for Earth Day next week which could pile on more pressure to put it off.
Britain has vaccinated over half the adult population so far, but other countries around the world are lagging behind and seeing another wave of the virus.
It came as climate warrior Greta Thunburg said this week she would boycott the Glasgow event and called for it to be delayed until global jab rates have risen.
No way will Greta not come if it happens. She’s merely conned you all into headlines by saying she isn’t. Now she will change her mind.
Greta needs help — and some anger management therapy … https://newtube.app/user/RAOB/I97sm2D
Greta is not only one, Boris needs help but of different kind. He’s doing it only because the princess Nut-Nuts want’s it to happen, and there’s no saying ‘No’ to her, she got him by the lower altitude ‘short and curlies’ .
The harpy’s got her claws deep into his hide.
Boris is everything he promised not to be. In the Covid clinic they told him how vulnerable he is if he doesn’t obey those behind the curtain.
Not snow but freedom will be a thing of the past.
Greta is no longer active in the UK now that the covid scare has supplanted the climate scare. Some of her supporters at the University of Winchester recently controversially erected a memorial to her, but it might yet be toppled. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-56565683
In the US, we went through a terrible summer where thoughtless young people toppled statues of abolitionists in order to combat “racism”. Is it too much to ask of thoughtless British youths to do the same to Greta’s statue in the name of “climate”?
I do suggest that a person could have LOTS of fun posing with that statue where Greta’s finger is going into various interesting places. Challenge issued to all English sceptics.
So, if a tourist stood on a chair next to the statue for a rude photo op …
Does UK have laws that could be used agin said tourist?
If that statue is made of bronze or any other metal it has a large CO2 footprint, if it is of synthetic resin than it has a large oil content, either way making of it contradicts Greta’s climate change philosophy. It is an embarrassment to Greta not to mention ‘the finger’. Topple it over, now.
She’s active, the BBC are running a series with her.
Just invoke the “C” word and everyone will flee. The word Cost is like a strand of garlic draped over the doors.
Cost isn’t a problem when spending OPM. And for the rentseekers spending OPM, COP is an investment, an advertising expenditure if you will, to keep the OPM flowing.
They’re addicted to OPM.
“If we can’t have access to an All You Can Eat shrimp bar and luxury hotel suites, what is the point of a climate conference?”
Looks like their Lockdown Mania had turned around and bit them where it hurts.
No no, Mr. McGuirck, no shrimp bars in Glasgow, just all the whisky you can drink with scampi and chips.
Not too sure about the luxury hotels either.
…. and don’t forget the deep-fried Mars bars, and savory/savoury offal in a sheep’s stomach for breakfast. Yummeeeee.
They must have found out, although I have to say, I quite like haggis.
I hear there’s a vegan version of haggis coming out soon Phil.
Apparently, they let the sheep die naturally of old age, then take out the stomach whole with all its last contents undisturbed, put it on a recycled cardboard plate, sprinkle it with shredded kale, then serve it while still warm(ish).
As you say – Yummeeeee.
And don’t forget the bad weather that time of the year in Scotland. Even in summer it mostly rains.
Consider what they did for COP 22Marrakech Climate Change Conference – November 2016. They built a whole village of air conditioned tents and trucked in oceans of bottle water just to pamper the delegates. Luxury accommodations can always be built if money is no object.
Hypocrisy of smog-spewing taxis at UN climate conference, Marrakech – YouTube
Everything is fake at UN Climate Conference in Marrakech! – YouTube
What are global elites up to at COP22 in Marrakech? – YouTube
COP26 is only 35 miles from my house.
Should I go?
NAAAAAHHHH!!!!!
Only 26 from mine, and I could go by (electric) train, (hybrid or hydrogen) bus, or even (diesel) canal boat and moor on the pontoon on the river just outside the venue. (noisy and smelly though. Tut tut. Or even putt putt.)
Don’t know if I can be bothered, though.
Just for fun I looked at hotel rooms for that time. Almost all of them have “no availability for your dates”.
OSD,
That’s Why BoJo wants COP to go ahead. The money it pumps into local and national economy and jobs it brings in. Nothing to do with climate. If emissions were the claimed problem, it’d be done via streaming video and video conferences.
Just one more demonstration Climate Change has nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with change.
Can they move it to Atlanta? Since the baseball All Star Game was moved to Denver, the local businesses are taking a hit. Although Georgians eat every bit of the pig, their state is a haggis-free zone. 😉
“Can they move it to Atlanta?”
If you need ID to vote in the UK then unfortunately not.
Joel,
The climate hustlers don’t want change; they want lots of paper currency, preferably the kinds with lots of zeros on them! The change is for the little folks!
And how much CO2 is produced to maintain the W.W.W. just for cooling.
How do they know who you’re dating? And why would they find them to be of an unacceptable disposition?
Has surveillance of the local populace started there already?
10miles – and about 10-15 minutes by car
Nowhere convenient to park, though.
Usually I’d got by train … but car seems more appropriate.
Mike
What you meant is that although it is only 15 minutes by car you will of course be walking there
tonyb
COP26 is only 7 miles from my house. I propose that COP26 be postponed for 25 years so that we can check the predictions of the climate alarmists before we do anything stupid.
They’ll be making the same predictions in 25 years they are making today. Only the Year of Final Doom (YOFD) will change.
Boris better get to work with deals for celebrities and paid protesters if he wants to pull this off. They don’t parade with elephants or other circus beasts anymore but they do have options with dumber celebs.
That definitely cries out for the classic Billy Connolly line:
“An elephant has shat in Sauchiehall Street. Treat it as a roundabout”
Eye-wateringly funny when you hear Billy saying it, but loses much of its hilarity when presented as just text.
But you did prompt me to dig out my Billy vinyl LPS to play them later tonight.
No free trip, no compliant media following them around. No COP. LOL, their actions are as shallow as a mud puddle.
The prospect of a conference in Glasgow, in November, somehow just doesn’t seem as attractive as the past COP meetings in places like Kyoto, Cancun, or Bali. I bet the Glaswegian Ladies of the Night awaiting the attendees aren’t as attractive either.
They’re all going to Edinburgh, really.
Plenty of “Glasgow kisses” will be available though!
..also known as the Aberdeen Handshake.
When there are events with a large influx of money, temporary workers will follow. When Super Bowl week hits, local entertainers often complain that a large portion of the money goes to workers from out of town instead of giving preference to local talent.
Ted,
I was working at a nearby family restaurant when the 49ers and Dolphins played in SBXIX. We had a large breakfast party of high rollers that a Las Vegas casino had flown up for the game! They brought their own hookers, so using the restroom was quite an adventure that morning! I don’t think any of my co-workers were miffed!
Love that phrase “temporary workers”!
The subversion of the media and acceptance of the public to government economic intervention in goods, services, and industry is complete and there is no longer great need for travelling salvation shows.
“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.”
James Madison
“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”
Albert Camus
“The whole aim of politics is to keep the general population alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of imaginary crises.”
H. L. Mencken
“When we allow science to become political then we are lost. We will enter the internet version of the Dark Ages, an era of stifling fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don’t know any better.”
Michael Crichton
“Would you bet your paycheck on tomorrow’s weather forecast? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that are way less accurate?”
Slightly Paraphrased from Thomas Sowell
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
clearly we should be placing a wind turbine wherever it is he is standing in the photo…
perhaps we should elect one as PM.
Or he should give up sniffing glue.
like this
Your church / kruzifix everywhere ?? 😀 😀
Good one griff!
I was thinking of another phallic symbol we could use … he is after all a ….
Unusually sensible for you Griff. Keep it up.
may as well, itd be as much use
I don’t mind if Old JB wants to go outside the country to fight Climate Change as long as we don’t have to let him back in.
The “climate emergency” can’t be much of an emergency if a virus that is reported to make people sick can’t be detected without a test prevents the meet-up from happening …
As I used to say back in the Hippie days in the late 60s, “Look at his (her) hair and imagine what their brain looks like.”
Boris has a very strange self-image and looks like what the spiked, colored hair crowd wants—they want to be stared at, so stare away. You have to work to get your hair that way.
I do not understand how anybody takes him seriously, when he does not do so for himself. Would you deposit your money in a bank in which the teller is shabby and unkempt? Of course not. If they cannot get their act together, how can they keep your money together and safe?
A ruddy climate conference, about global warming™, in Scotland in November…. LOL!!
What could possibly go wrong!
UK looks like it will end up with about 40% total vaccination.
Personally, I think the only reason they’re putting it off so many times is they heard I lived in (near) Glasgow.
It should be cancelled
We’ve had quite enough of Doris’ virtue signalling
Stuff the climate. Moi is more important than COV26 and besides there’s no fun if moi can’t have a free jetsetting kneesup.
Canceling would be a big disappointment for Glasgow’s taxi drivers and night-time hospitality workers.
Is Boris standing in a wind tunnel?
Or has he stuck his head out of the sunroof of his limo.
The other thing not mentioned in the article is that the SNP who run the administration of Scotland absolutely hate Johnson, so much so that they booked every single available venue so that Johnson didn’t have anywhere to go.
It has the makings of an utter disaster and with the threat of a likely lockup in the autumn (because the SNP are just nuts), it could well turn into a total fiasco.
And Glasgow in November is a pretty dreary place. It is dark, windy and often unpleasantly wet. And you can tell the foreigners … because they are the ones with sodden clothes looking very cold and miserable holding the umbrellas blown inside out.
And in November almost all the tourist sites are shut. It’s too early for snow … it’s too late to see the autumn colours.
Another problem is there aren’t enough hotels in Glasgow for the number they say would come. I can see them being bused in from all kinds of places … where they can all enjoy the delights of the traffic queues on the M8 in the morning (again you can tell the foreigners … because they’re the one tightly gripping their steering wheels with no idea where they are going as cars flash past them on all sides … who eventually find themselves heading off the motorway into some drug ridden estate with no idea how to get back on).
Funny, totally agree Mike, hey Greta shut yer geggy!!
And you can tell the foreigners … because they are the ones with sodden clothes looking very cold and miserable holding the umbrellas blown inside out.
So… the locals are the same, just without umbrellas?
Climate change will slowly recede from the Agenda. They have Covid now.
no the opposite
as covid fades down they plan to ramp up climate hysteria
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-56752541, “humans are the intruders”.
So…. Climate is an existential threat, in that it will kill 100% of the population.
But politicians worldwide are going to delay solving this threat, because of a virus that kills at most 3% of the population….
It was thought that Boris Johnson was (and may still be) a CAGW skeptic, but the problem on his hands now is that the UK has gone so far down the Green Energy yellow brick road that its economy is no longer globally competitive.
So, he has two options:
1] Eat the cost and rebuild the grid with carbon and nuclear and suffer the wrath of the Green Blob and the Biden Administration.
2] Double down and try to get the world to decarbonize and create the same energy inefficiencies in the economies of the UK’s competitors. And that includes going all in on COP26 and things like a carbon border tax:
Boris Johnson’s G7 dilemma: Carbon border tax proposals vs geopolitical realism
https://www.thegwpf.com/boris-johnsons-g7-dilemma-carbon-border-tax-proposals-vs-geopolitical-realism/
Basically, the UK (and German) economy is fooked… and until they reckon with that, they will go around clutching a straws. Or hope that the hapless Joe Biden and John Kerry, who can’t find their out of a paper bag, will lead the world on to a great green reset. (lol)
They really should make the COP26 Climate Jamboree a make-believe one. It would dovetail nicely with the made-up science, and the pretense of doing something for a pretend crisis.