Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; Richard Moore, head of MI6, Britain’s answer to the CIA, says gathering intelligence about Chinese compliance with climate pledges will be his spy agency’s highest priority.
MI6 begins ‘green spying’ on big polluting countries
Richard Moore, the new chief of the secret service, suggested countries such as China will be watched to ensure climate commitments are kept
By Jack Hardy
24 April 2021 • 10:25pm…
Richard Moore, head of the UK’s foreign intelligence service, described climate change as the “foremost international foreign policy item for this country and for the planet”.
It means the big industrial countries will be monitored by MI6 to ensure they are upholding their commitments to combating rising global temperatures.
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Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/24/mi6-begins-green-spying-big-polluting-countries/
I would like to believe this is some kind of clever disinformation, maybe an attempt by the head of MI6 to convince Chinese counter-intelligence that the British are not a serious adversary. But I think he actually means it. Or maybe that is what I am supposed to think…
“MI6 to ensure they are upholding their commitments”
But, er, China haven’t made any commitments…. hold on….
“In his speech to the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2020, President Xi Jinping of China announced that China will scale up its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to tackling climate change by adopting more vigorous policies and measures in an effort to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality before 2060.”
MI6 ready for action: commited to upholding vigorous commitments in 2060. Tax money well spent.
00-00-00-007 and other top-grade agents.
I believe that would be Agent 0.07 C; the expected impact of the Paris Accord.
Gee MI6 that’s really tough
China pledged to increase their output until 2030 then revisit.
It isn’t 2030 yet so…
Is China still increasing output?
If YES then job done, tell them they’re the best for producing more GHG as promised
If NO then spank them for not keeping their pledged climate goals of producing more GHGs
I think spanking may be a bit harsh, some kind words of encouragement followed by some finger waving might do the trick if you believe in CAGW.
Austin Powers and Fat Bastard.
007 left because he could see a chink in the UK’s armour.
This is actually elegant. It’s like Mutually Assured Destruction. The Chinese can use CAGW to wreck our economy but turnabout is fair play.
We’ll know the Brits are serious when they hire St. Greta to scold the Chinese government for its shortcomings. The mere thought makes me shudder.
Your reference to St Greta matched my thoughts on the ludicrous MI6 pronouncement. Put her in charge and save money by disbandimg the organisation, if they consider this hoax Climate Change money making racket more important than National Security.
Next generation of zeros (order to freeze!) will be more like healthy milk “Stirred, not shaken”; shaking produced too much heath.
as an aside –
one might expect spooks to keep something of an eye on unpleasant infectious diseases that are a real threat to their respective countries – allied to their mates employed as diplomats of which the UK had 200+ in and around China in 2019 / 2020.
Homg Kong has extensive biosecurity facilities on China border crossings – the proffered reason being the near annual bug outbreaks in mainland China.
The UK even had a consulate in Wuhan whose tasking must at least part be to report (spy by some definitions …) on goings on economically, politically and public health wise.
It’s not unreasonable to surmise that the clip below neatly summarizes where we are:
https://youtu.be/g-oCckHaGdM
The MI6 focus on Existential threat of climate is no different than President Biden declaring the administration will focus on fighting climate change. All of this means that China is living free inside the heads of the more advanced cultures who are willing to self-destruct. China will do whatever is best for China, and telling lies is not only acceptable but becoming common. A side issue for the USA has appeared in the form of Climate Czar John Heinz Kerry apparently telling Iran that Israel was attacking their commando units inside Syria. He denies it but looks guilty. So, who is the next Climate Czar? Wait for it.
More accurately, John Kerry Heinz. She writes the checks in that family.
“So, who is the next Climate Czar?”
Bradley ‘Chelsea’ Manning, the Belle of the 10th Mountain Division, is available and has the same qualifications as Lurch.
Hasn’t China always done what is good for China? They remained fairly-well isolated from the rest of the world for centuries only opening up to the west when forced to by the exertion of greater force.
The whole world has lost its frickin mind.
China will defeat the U.S. from within. The recent election was a critical step for them to ultimately replace the U.S. Dollar with the Yuan as the worlds trade currency and throw a bankrupt U.S. into receivership. T
hey will destabilize the world market place from their current position as chief supplier of cheap goods and services to the rest of the world.
And these Jack@rses expect those of us that are paying attention to believe that it is climate change (something the planet manages on its own quite well, that threatens the first world order? If Richard Moore actually expects his primary role to be watching China compliance to climate change the world is really screwed. And he should be removed from his position. At the very least somebody needs to help him extract his head from up his…
Asians have always looked at the world through their own biases, totally different from Western biases. To foolishly assume that they are just the same in their thinking as the Western world is a recipe for disaster and these clowns really should know better. Doesn’t anyone read history anymore?
The spy who came in from the warm!. What a spineless branless moron or a dyed in the wool traitor – like Prince – soon God help us to be King Chuck
King Chuck!!
That’s more scary than King Kong.
King Upchuck!
Moore, Dick Moore.
There’s no doubt about the fact that Britain’s ‘next in line’ is a right Charlie.
I have always supported our intelligence services but this is taking the pee.
The name is Burned, Flames Burned. Licensed to fill. Corrupt politicians pockets!
When is the attack on Taiwan planned? and Ukraine and the South China Sea islands and Indian Ocean nations and Israel and Saudi Arabia and ….
They are emboldened by this stroke of luck.
The Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 100th year anniversary on 1July. If Taiwan is still free and independent on that date it will be a loss of face for Emperor Xi if he hasn’t taken bold steps to correct that.
You’ll know it’s too late when they wave the “agreement” in the air like Chamberlain.
Women and children and diversity members to the limited bunkers as a precaution. The ship hit an ice berg but there is nothing to worry about.
Gender dysphoric children first.
And what will they do when they ‘catch’ countries not upholding their promises? Shame them? Like China gives a damn what other countries think as long as it doesn’t interrupt their plans.
And yet China continues to pump out R-22. CCP stands for Climate Criminals for Profit.
And CFC-11 and CFC-12
He will rely heavily on WHO investigator reports in their other work tracking down the imported frozen seafood that the CCP claims was the source of COVID19. Great.
Remember not to find anything or it will damage trade agreements and British investment.
Given that they seem to rely heavily on civilian keyboard amateurs like ‘Bellingcat’ to provide top grade intelligence analysis, I can only facepalm – there are just no words for this level of stupidity.
Forget about nuclear and bioweapons. China will defeat the West with a piece of coal. Oh wait. They already have.
Hilarious! Still April.
What medal does he get for not looking and not finding? Is it the Chuck Chuckle?
China has been playing switcheroo with intelligence services for years – while everyone was looking at the new islands (the ones with no military value or defences and runways too short for anything except light aircraft or helicopters) near the Spratly’s, what was China doing away from that sleight of hand, that they needed to divert attention away from? The Russians have a word for that sort of thing – ‘maskirovka’ – the art of deception.
Since China has publicly announced they aren’t going to get serious about reducing emissions until 2030, what is there for the spies to do?
I suppose that MI6 won’t be spying on China’s Uighur re-education and rape camps, because they are actively involved in building cheap solar panels – good for the climate!
There’s finally a real world evil genius plotting world domination, and MI6 (and I’m sure the CIA) is making sure he meets his vague, unenforceable climate goals. Who needs James Bond?
Oh, sorry – didn’t you get the memo? In this new age of non-discriminatory hiring policies, the agent is now Jane Blonde, and she’s doing her nails I believe.
Ian Fleming called – he wants his legacy back.
What will the next Bond film be called?
1] CoalFinger
2] License to Drill
3] CO2raker
4] CarbonEye
5] ClimatePu$$y
6] The Man with the Graphite Gun
7] Wind is Forever
8] Dr. CO2
9] Decarbonization is not Enough
10] Quantum Solar Panel
11] The Denier who Snowed Me
We should have a WUWT contest for best suggestion !!! /s
Richard Moore and his brother Michael, dumb and dumber!
Dumbest
What!? Even the spy agencies are grovelling for climate cash?
Everybody loves a free lunch and an expo event in a foreign country.
I’m hoping this is a double bluff.
Our spy agencies are known for playing dirty. This would be too incredulous to be anything but…. Wouldn’t it…..?
So am I, but by the looks of it, is more like doubly insanity.
The really tragic, indeed frightening, aspect of this report is that the governments of both Britain and The US are under the ideological sway of the opinion that “climate change is the foremost international foreign policy item for [their countries] and for the planet”.
Sober science accepts the theory that increased atmospheric CO2 percentage will cause some global warming – but without clear supporting evidence scientific theories should not be elevated to a “foremost international foreign policy item”.
That shows naive, un-grounded decision making and lack of intellectual maturity – dangerous qualities in any government, if you think about it.
“Here I am with Uncle Roger” – see Richard Moore on Twitter.
Meanwhile M has other plans , other pokers in the fire, – war in Ukraine with NATO and Russia, whose President, Zelensky met personally with last October to foment. Maybe they also discussed Ukrainian coal?
It is pretty ridiculous to see WUWT’s utter incompetence – it was Moore’s Russia Desk under Dearlove and Steele that ruined Trump’s presidency.
Say what? You need to cut back on those Tide Pods.
Only a complete child-mind would call itself “bonbon”
And its posts prove it.
Sounds like the name of one of those little chimpanzees at the zoo..
Oh Good! After they solve Chinas missing CO2 commitments, they can investigate why toilet paper and paper surgical masks disappeared from store shelves in January 2020 before any pandemic happened.
Why not use satellites to count the solar panels and windmills?
There is a PNAS study where academic researchers used open source, commercial satellite data to show in 2014 that China intentionally under-reports by a large margin its emissions from coalfired power plants.
So it doesn’t take national level spy agencies to figure out the ChiComms are liars.
Because there were solar farms that weren’t actually connected to any distribution networks.
Built just for the western activists to pay homage to, and laud the CCP’s “progress”.
A focus on Chinese bio security and potential cover-ups of emerging epidemics in that nation might have been of more use to us about a year and a half ago (as exemplified by the Taiwanese security services).
What kind of trip are these folks on, how dumb do they think everybody else is…
Obviously nobody is as smart as them, so they think everyone is really dumb.
Because broadcasting to the enemy what you are planning to do has always been a good strategy.