Greta Thunberg, Prince Charles, David Attenborough, Leonardo DiCaprio and our very own James Shaw may be disappointed their quasi religious hysteria at COP26 failed to generate a tsunami of fear; instead media coverage is akin to the normal ebb and fall of a predictable tide, now receding. By the time Shaw’s CO2-belching jet returns him home, NZ will have lost interest in COP26.
“It’s all about the optics. The spectacle of dozens of world leaders and their vast entourages arriving in their fleets of private jets is designed to awe the gullible masses into believing that the ‘climate crisis’ is real and urgent and the number one priority. The hyperbolic language of imminent doom is designed to generate an air of fear and panic and ‘something must be done!’
The clown show of designated cultural influencers (gorilla-hugging, whispery-voiced Malthusian David Attenborough; Leo DiCaprio; the inevitable Doom Goblin Greta Thunberg; etc) is aimed at reassuring us: ‘It isn’t just politicians who know this to be true. So too do your favourite TV and movie stars and pigtailed, autistic school dropouts!”
James Delingpole first wrote about the “biggest scientific fraud in history” nigh on two decades ago but today struggles to find media willing to reproduce his criticism of global warming/climate change.
“It’s a sign of how bad things have got that where 12 years ago I was able to break the Climategate scandal in the online section of the Daily Telegraph, and where I frequently wrote about the evils and dishonesty of the environmental movement in a range of publications including the Mail, the Express and the Spectator, there is now not a single mainstream media publication in the UK prepared to take a principled stand against eco-fascism.”
Delingpole writing for Breitbart
The famous folk at COP26 are the cardboard cutouts and window dressing of a self-sustaining industry with astounding media saturation and funding.
“Imagine how much money you would need to buy that level of saturation publicity! Actually, it’s impossible.The human brain cannot conceive of such numbers. But I did try asking Benny Peiser (formerly of the German Green party, now of the climate sceptical Global Warming Policy Foundation) to try to put a figure on the annual global expenditure of the Climate Industrial Complex.
“Seven quadrillion?” he said, plucking a figure from the air and only half joking. “And where would you begin? The salaries of all the academics pushing the global warming agenda; the government departments administering it; the taxpayer subsidies poured into it; the companies investing in it…”
The sums involved are so eye-wateringly, unprecedentedly vast that they simply defy calculation. And there you have the fundamental problem with the global warming industry: it has now grown so large it is simply too big to fail.
Impervious to logic, reason, or any kind of cost benefit analysis, the climate gravy train is a behemoth which crushes all before it; and which drowns out with its shrill wailings the voices of sensible, decent, informed scientists who want to debate the issue with common sense, proportion and factual evidence.”
But Delingpole says there is hope, not in the doomsday predictions generated by the most “corrupt and rapacious industry in the world” but in biological regeneration.
Perhaps the most important thing everyone should realise when they read all the depressing headlines inspired by COP26 is that the truth is the polar opposite of the one presented by politicians, scientists and media hysterics.
The world is not dying but is in rude health: additional CO2 levels are causing ‘global greening’ – an increase in vegetation on desert margins such as the Sahel in North Africa; coral reefs which appear to have died as a result of bleaching have made rapid recoveries; polar bear populations are booming. There are many things to worry about in 2021. But imminent environmental catastrophe most definitely isn’t one of them.
Delingpole writing for Die Weltwoche
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