Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Not an auspicious start to the event which Prince Charles informs us is our last chance to save the world from 1.5C global warming.
COP crisis as hundreds of delegates are stranded in London after ‘extreme weather’ led to rail chaos on the line to Glasgow with Network Rail telling people to go home and try again in the morning
- Winds up to 80mph are causing travel chaos and flooding across parts of the UK with further rain to come
- Hundreds of passengers are stuck at London Euston with all trains cancelled after tree fell on overhead wires
- Passengers, many trying to reach Glasgow for Cop26, said it was ‘ironic’ journeys were disrupted by storms
- Met Office unable to rule out whether any tornadoes have taken place following reports of wind damage
By JAMIE PHILLIPS and KATIE FEEHAN and BHVISHYA PATEL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:05 AEDT, 31 October 2021 | UPDATED: 09:40 AEDT, 1 November 2021
Hundreds of delegates hoping to travel to Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit by train have been left stranded inside London’s Euston station tonight after torrential rain and 80mph gale-force winds saw trees fall on the railway lines and halt services.
Network Rail tonight urged passengers to go home and ‘travel tomorrow instead’ after the extreme weather caused damage to overhead electric lines.
The railway company said they were ‘truly sorry’ for the disruption to passengers and admitted ‘today’s extreme weather got the better of us.’
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James Delingpole reports a church was struck by a tornado during the middle of prayers for climate action.
The just completed G20 meeting, which was meant to hammer out remaining differences, adds to climate enthusiasts woes, with news that delegates at the G20 couldn’t agree on anything concrete.
‘Hopes unfulfilled’: G20 fails to agree on climate change goals
By David Crowe and Bevan Shields
November 1, 2021 — 4.43am
Rome: Leaders from the world’s biggest economies have fractured in a tense negotiation over climate change that has stalled hopes for a global pact to make deeper cuts to carbon emissions and phase out the use of coal.
The G20 leaders scaled back plans by some of the group’s most powerful members, including the United States and European Union, for an ambitious agreement that would set a collective goal to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050.
While the group backed the goal of limiting the rise in world temperatures, it made no firm commitments on how to keep the rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius after warnings from scientists two months ago on the need to reach that goal.
Leaders including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the outcome did not do enough to limit the rise to 1.5 degrees.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison opposed the deadline to phase out coal as well as a call to speed up cuts to methane emissions by 2030, a proposal the government believed would impose high costs on dairy and cattle farmers.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres admitted the failure to agree on more ambitious action on climate change at the summit in Rome, but held out hope of a commitment from a wider group of leaders when they meet at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Monday.
“I leave Rome with my hopes unfulfilled – but at least they are not buried,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/g20-fails-to-agree-on-climate-change-goals-20211101-p594sv.html
I’m guessing COP26 is not going to be the glorious success activists are hoping for, or in some cases praying for.
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Sleepy Joe at opening remarks 😀
woulda been way better if he was awakened by the clapping rather than the babysitter.
Listening to that incomprehensible, droning “speech” would make just about anyone comatose. What the heck was that, a poor quality computerized translation of some sort?
You can’t really blame him
British historian David Starkey explains that Greta Thunberg is a “religious nutter” and that climate alarmism is just the latest in a long series of millenarian “end of the world” self flagellating European religious cults:
https://youtu.be/KRjOwiPPGU4
Poor chap will never work again!
America’s climate power trio: Winkin’, Blinken and Nod.
More like Shreekin, Tweakin and Nod
Three of the biggest losers in the nation. And they are running things.
Tornado Strikes Pro-C…? Karmic irony. That would be Her Choice.
“or in some cases
prayingpreying for.”Fixed
“Met Office unable to rule out whether any tornadoes have taken place following reports of wind damage”
Here is a traditional Scottish home with specially protected roof for pre global warming weather.
Failing to reach agreement on limiting man-made CO2 emissions as a means to limit increasing global temperature to a maximum increase of 1.5 °C above “pre-industrial global temperature” by year 2050* is not a substantial issue because no scientific study has shown, beyond reasonable doubt, that man-made CO2 emissions cause an increase in global temperatures.
Quite simply: correlation is not necessarily evidence of causation.
*Interestingly, the date required for limiting the increase to 1.5 °C varies considerably depending on source: from 2030 to 2100, thereby showing how ill-formulated the “consensus” goal actually is.
Hmmm . . . no mention of “climate czar” Lurch attending the COP 26 conference. Was he there, but just upstaged by his boss Brandon?
“…Telling people to go home and try again in the morning…” — WITHOUT FOSSIL FUELS.
And see how their journey impacts their voices.
Saddle sores and windburn and pneumonia might have a way of altering their politics.
It seems like it was just rotten wood.
Pathetic hyping by a government institution.
But they can be oh so accurate with temperature adjustments and forecasts decades into the future.
Clearly this is just more evidence of the need for drastic action. How can it be seen anything else?
If Prince dumblehead talked to plants they would tell him they need CO2
But he is so thick like John Kerry he would remove all CO2 from the Atmosphere ensuring certain demise of all life
along with David the twit attenborough
sooner the British bring in max population numbers and remove non essentials the better
According to GridWatch Templar UK wind generation has dropped from 12GW yesterday dinnertime to 1.70 GW at 8.50 today. Coal is providing 1.42 GW, and solar 1.18 GW.
Ironically the rain and storm are part of the impact of climate change on the UK… as the UK Met Office will confirm for you.
Three times the average October rainfall and yet another 80mph gale we didn’t get in the last century.
How quaint, its changed climate when Griff doesn’t like it but weather if he does like it…
ta for the giggles, you so sure they didnt have the odd gale in uk scotland back then? really?
It’s just weather, Griff.
“Three times the average October rainfall and yet another 80mph gale we didn’t get in the alternate reality where I live.”
There – fixed it for ya Griffy, I’m always here to help you get things right when your delusions and incompetence lead you astray!
What about the great storm of 1987? That wasn’t attributed to climate change.
So, griff, if the climate is so wrong, you should be able to tell us what it SHOULD be, right? I keep asking but you never answer.
Clearly the planet does not want to be “healed” from CO2 and does not consider CO2 as a pollutant. Perhaps CO2 is a life giving gas that will help the planet heal faster. Perhaps the planet considers the restoration of CO2 from deep in the ground back to the atmosphere as good and strengthening,
gretas got a begging letter going via avaaz already
i hear charles had a trip and bidet went to sleep
too damned funny
another 2 week taxfunded junket for the greenflunkies
lets hope they dont/cant have anymore of them EVER
“during the middle of prayers for climate action”
Is this what is meant by “following the science”?
Oh Dear How Sad Never Mind
James Bull