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.
Just invoke the “C” word and everyone will flee. The word Cost is like a strand of garlic draped over the doors.
“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.
COP26 is only 35 miles from my house.
Should I go?
NAAAAAHHHH!!!!!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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).
Climate change will slowly recede from the Agenda. They have Covid now.
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.