Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Even the BBC seems perplexed by UK PM Boris Johnson’s grotesque climate hypocrisy, demanding action from everyone else, while failing to practice what he preaches in Britain.
Boris Johnson: Humanity is reaching a turning point on climate change
By Dulcie Lee & Marie Jackson
BBC NewsA climate summit of world leaders in 40 days’ time will be the “turning point for humanity”, PM Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations.
He warned that global temperature rises were already inevitable, but called on his fellow leaders to commit to major changes to curb further warming.
Four areas needed tackling – “coal, cars, cash and trees”, he said.
Countries must take responsibility for “the destruction we are inflicting, not just upon our planet but ourselves”.
“It’s time for humanity to grow up,” he added ahead of the UK hosting the COP26 summit in Glasgow.
The prime minister also said it was time to listen to the warnings of scientists. “Look at Covid if you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right.”
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He previously pledged “never to be lagging on lagging”. But his plan for insulating homes is badly delayed – along with other vital initiatives on issues including aviation, farming and financing the low carbon revolution.
Recent research showed his government had imposed less than a quarter of the policies needed to clean up the economy.
And some policies – like not opposing a coal mine in Cumbria,cutting taxes on flying and building HS2 – will send emissions up when they are supposed to be going down.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58657887
Despite BoJo’s demands that coal be shut down, earlier this month, Boris Johnson was humiliatingly forced to turn to coal, after adverse weather caused renewables to fail, and gas became really expensive during a Europe wide wind drought.
Even coal was not enough. The power price spike created by Britain’s Bojo’s energy policies is causing real problems – power retailers are collapsing right and left. The collapses might force millions of people already suffering fuel poverty onto new, significantly more expensive electricity tariffs. The lost production from rolling factory shutdowns to reduce demand and prevent blackouts could be a genuine threat to Britain’s post lockdown economic recovery.
Yet instead of learning by the abject failure of his policies, Boris seems to be doubling down, insisting even more renewables will solve the problem of output dropping to zero during adverse weather.
Personally I find Boris Johnson’s apparent disconnect from reality on climate issues a little puzzling. I once sat at the next table from Boris at a formal dinner. While I didn’t talk to him personally, he seemed no more insane than any other politician. He took and answered questions, and seemed a reasonably intelligent conversationalist.
Perhaps our friends in Britain can explain? Does Boris truly have no comprehension of these issues, does he not understand Britain needed coal this month? Is Boris simply mouthing a bunch of politically convenient words, with no intention of following through? Or perhaps there is another explanation?
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I was gonna let this story ride – it was on the beeb daaaaays ago UNTIL, I came upon this little gem.
Quote:”the destruction we are inflicting, not just upon our planet but ourselves”.
As you will all be tediously aware, I don’t drink: Boris does
OK ok ok, its a free world but what really gets my goat is the folks who claim that they ‘can handle it”
And after 17 years of not drinking, I can not ‘handle it’
I have become supremely sensitive to even minute amounts of alcohol
If nothing else, underscores what truly grotesque stuff it really is.
My problem of this very minute (now= 11:35 AM BST) – it started when I attempted to get outta bed this morn,
I didn’t want to – ‘something’ was really badly wrong with me. I was dizzy, headachey and ‘just wanted to sleep’
I went outside ‘for air’ and came upon my neighbour, a retired mechanical engineer
Thus we got into a craic about the woes that afflicted my ride-on lawnmower yesterday.
It was patently obviously that the new E10 petrol had melted a lot of the rubber in its fuel line, in the carb and some mysterious yellow jello-like ‘stuff had appeared from somewhere within??????
Translucent little globs like miniature frog-spawn? wtf was that stuff?
Then. It. Dawned.
From my messing about, out of doors on my driveway, with that bastid petrol yesterday afternoon/evening, I’ve come away with a hangover this morning
Unintended consequences eh.
What about ‘think of the children’. How sensitive are they? Brings a whole new dimension to ‘solvent abuse’ also.
Thank you Boris. Thank you for <expletive> nothing.
So the thing to do Peta is to try a “hair of the dog”.
Put your nose right into that mower’s petrol tank and take a big long sniff.
You’ll then realize that you didn’t really feel that crook beforehand after all.🥵🤯
Peta, you need to accept the fact that the human body actually produces alcohol itself. Some people with certain disorders are actually drunk all of the time because their body does not properly process this naturally produced alcohol.
Since may argue that this is generated from carbohydrates, but the fact is that the body actually runs on carbohydrates, and creates sugars for energy from pretty much anything it can.
Seriously? Are the BBC now so far removed from reality they describe a lovely summer with light airs, as “Adverse weather conditions”?
Can someone please remove the BBC’s editorial teams access to mind altering substances. It has to be that, which is causing them to behave in this ridiculous uneducated manner, what else can it be? They have obviously overdosed on tumbling walrus!
If BoJo was 1/2 the man his mom was he would go out and cut the electric line to his home and shut off the gas and water. Man up, BoJo, make your mom proud!.
From the article: “A climate summit of world leaders in 40 days’ time will be the “turning point for humanity”, PM Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations.
He warned that global temperature rises were already inevitable, but called on his fellow leaders to commit to major changes to curb further warming.”
How many times have we heard the end of the world proclaimed? Too many times.
Boris claims temperature rises are inevitable while at the same time temperatures have cooled by 0.5C since 2016. Boris is a little bit out of touch with reality it seems. Alarmists like Boris seem to live in the “hottest year evah!” even when the temperatures are cooling. It’s a mental thing.
From the article: “The prime minister also said it was time to listen to the warnings of scientists. “Look at Covid if you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right.”
Bad example.
Boris, once upon a time, was actually a good constituency MP. I voted for him. I didn’t vote Conservative at the last election and never will again.*
I think that says it all.
*I won’t vote Labour, Lib Dem or Green either.
His lady fair has informed him that unless he gets really tough on CO2, he’s not going to get any action tonight.
Speaking of the Beeb, a reporter has just been on their TV news telling us all about the “school strikes” and the doom-pixie Greta.
The journalist reported that all the German forests are dying because Germany is suffering from a declining level of precipitation. It took me 30 seconds on Google to find out that the trend in German precipitation levels is surprisingly underwhelming (if there is a trend at all).
Why is the Beeb allowed to get away with reporting lies?
It’s what it’s good at.
Too true.
Griff said it’s wetter, flooding OMG
I believe Griff over the bbc on this one
I should hope you would believe the UK Met Office when it says it is 6% wetter in the UK than 30 years ago (and that’s an average: the excess rainfall is nowhere near evenly distributed)
Griff, when you get back to Thermageddon HQ this evening, you might want to have a chat with Ol’ Nails, as he’s been busy telling everyone it’s getting drier in the UK.
If you’re going to try and convince us that we’re all going to hell in a climate hand-cart, you need to get your stories straight.
Finally someone has his thinking hat on:
(UK’s) Ministers are backing a multibillion-pound plan to build another large-scale nuclear power plant in Britain to ease pressure on electricity supplies as the country moves towards net zero.
(‘net zero’ bit is bs)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/multibillion-pound-plan-to-build-uk-nuclear-power-plant-qrkqchkh7
A little sanity in an insane world (Western Democracies).
I see where Poland is contracting to have small nuclear reactors built inside some of their old coal-fired generating plants.
Boris ‘lying womanising oaf’ Johnson is a total moron. He charms people with his clown act but sadly it is not an act – he really is a clown. Perhaps having seen Italy elect a comedian the British voters thought we could have a clown as Prime Minister. Except that the voters did not elect Johnson PM as the position is not subject to election. In the British system the leader of the party with the most seats after an election is invited to be PM. Johnson was elected as party leader from the Tory membership of about 20,000 on the grounds that he was the best!!!!! People voted for Blue Labour in the last election as Red Labour was considered to likely be even worse than the current shambles.
BoJo must have taken the jabs, which cause stupidity.
The Wuhan virus can cause stupidity, too. BoJo spent a lot of time in the hospital. The longer the virus is in your body, the more damage it does, including brain damage.
Biden got a lot of his brain damage mechanically, and it’s been downhill from there.
I don’t blame Boris because he’s in a hard spot. He has a nation of proto communist voters who believe whole hog in catastrophic climate change. He has to pay them lip service. At the same time, it’s so obvious to anyone doing the math that coal will be here for another century.
I love how the UK earns on 23% from its investment into RE nameplate.
A year or two of gas and electricity shortages, will soon sort BoJo out
That will sort a lot of people out.
Politicians advocating these insane policies should be limited to using wind and solar power in their lives. Their own travel should be via sailing ships, built of wood, and bicycles on land. Then send him on a trip around the world, where he can do less harm while at sea.
Look at Lysenkoism if you want an example of bad, government-backed pseudoscientists loudly proclaimed to be “right” who were eventually proven wrong.
He is not loony, but Luvstruck, every night gazing into these green googly eyes and listening to climate drivel pillow talk, that’s what’s addled his brain. We heard that when in the USA, he’d struck a deal to have Westinghouse build the UK a new fleet of conventional pressurised water nuclear reactors at the old existing sites. Timescale 10-12 years and costs min £15 billion per site. They’re having a larf, John. We taught them all they’ll never know, those jokers at Westinghouse …. Hey, Rolls-Royce Civil Nuclear makes all their spare parts and services all the American, French, and even yes Chinese reactors. Without R-R, they’d all beef hooked !
You know, that’s the same Westinghouse that was wholly owned by the British Government, until that half-witted Gordoom Brine sold it for just 10 million sobs, when it had almost tens times that in orders on the books. We don’t need the Chinese, Japanese, or indeed Americans to build us nuclear reactors.
We have in Rolls-Royce Civil Nuclear, (a wholly owned subsidiary of British Aerospace, the UK government’s arms and munitions business), a company that’s capable of building a fleet of reactors at around £1.5 Billion per Gigawatt per 12 months, at the very minimum. That’s about HALF the cost, in HALF the time as anything we’ve seen from foreign interlopers.
Not only that but the Royal Navy has at least 8 working nuclear reactors, in laid up reserve submarines, each capable of generating over 300MW of electrical power, and a further 150MW at the prop shaft. There’s an instant two and a half GigaWatts, if we’re really that desperate. Do tell those foreigners to shove it, sling their hook, and beetle off; we don’t need em Boris !
Duplicate, sorry people -JB
“Look at Covid if you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right.”
Ah, no, Boris, it was precisely because the scientists optimistically thought they could perform gain-of-function research on bat viruses at a Chinese lab with poor safety measures that we have Covid. Covid is a demonstration of just how incompetent international science is and just how poor their response is to problems they create.
Climate change is a faux problem created by the science elite who have demonstrated their incompetence with COVID.
God I hope the Australian contingent take that lump of coal!
“The prime minister also said it was time to listen to the warnings of scientists. “Look at Covid if you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right.”
Har-har-har-har-har-har.
The gloomy mathematical epidemiologists have been consistently proved wrong, so i suppose he means the more realistic ones who have increasingly come to the conclusion that science died in 2020 and are warning of a totalitarian future.
As a Brit, let me say that Boris is a child, looking to please everyone, and coming out with random ideas he then has to U turn on almost immediately.
I remember last year he promised us ‘summer schooling’ for kids to catch up. Four hours later he had abandoned the idea.
Now we have him saying Truck drivers are a specialist role and we must have immigration quotas for them.
We didnt vote for Boris, we voted for Cummings, he was the Brexit architect. Instead we got Carrie Antoinette, who now runs the government through Boris. Clearly the old fashioned way ‘do what I want or you dont get you know what tonight’.
He is a child, no long term plan, bluster and BS, that is all he has.
The idea that govt green ideas and initiatives are solely because Carrie influences Boris is clearly unfounded…
“solely founded”, well no, that’s a Straw Man fallacy. Nobody’s saying she’s solely responsible for Boris’s newfound green enthusiasm. However she is usurping policy in a fashion, in which she has no democratic authority whatsoever. It’s a bit like she has assumed the position, rather similar the wife of the Mayor of Moscow. You know the lady who sent cashola to Clintons/Bidens or whomever, in order to exert Putinical bonhomie. The actual people, plebs, who cares about their votes, just so long as the endless partying and gunfights never cease ! Ms. Johnston, neé Symonds, nobody elected You to create government policy by proxy.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/30/boris-johnson-carrie-symonds-influence-no-10-extends-much-further-than-decor
Before Carrie he was dismissive of climate change.
Eric , Bozo Johnson isn’t a hypocrite. You have to know what your doing to be a hypocrite. He is just a total buffoon. An embarrassing idiot.
He is totally innumerate and scientifically illiterate. He understands climate science less than I understand brain surgery. YouTube him reciting Homer in Ancient Greek. His main adviser is his current wife who has degrees in art and theatre.
oh! And I voted for him, which makes me almost as daft as he is.
“Is Boris simply mouthing a bunch of politically convenient words, with no intention of following through?”
Hopefully, after COPS and Robbers 26, he will quietly walk away from the worst extremes of this nonsense. He is famous for U-turns. It depends how much push back he gets. He has an eco-warrior family in addition to his ultra-green wife. Dad Stanley is “International Adviser” to the “Conservative Environmental Network”, journalist sister Rachel is a director of a Conservative millennials think tank which is pushing Net Zero, called “Bright Blue”, but are dark green.
As a Brit who has met Boris and watched his performance as PM, I can say that the reason for his troubles is that he is numerically and scientifically illiterate.
in a decade or so when all this nonsense really bites the architects of this lunacy will be long gone, retired in some warm country.