Boris Johnson will fly back from the COP26 climate conference on a private jet rather than take the train after spending two days telling world leaders to reduce their carbon emissions. The Guardian has more.
The Prime Minister left himself open to accusations of hypocrisy after urging other countries to do everything possible to pledge lower emissions and warning that they would be judged by their children if they fail to act.
Johnson flew into COP26 in Glasgow from Rome after attending the G20 of world leaders. But instead of getting the train, which takes about four and a half hours, he has decided to take a short internal flight from Glasgow to London.
Earlier, he told a roundtable of leaders of developing nations: “When it comes to tackling climate change, words without action, without deeds are absolutely pointless.”
The prime minister is one of hundreds of world leaders and businesspeople who have chartered planes to attend the conference aimed at limiting global temperature rises to less than 1.5C. Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon, was one of those who flew in to Scotland for the conference.
Johnson’s spokesperson defended the move, saying the plane ran partly on “sustainable aviation fuel” and emitted about half the emissions of other aircraft. The plane will still cause far more emissions than a trip by train.
“It’s important the PM is able to move around the country. We have obviously faced significant time constraints,” Johnson’s official spokesperson said.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Jeff Bezos told COP26 how going to space made him realise “how thin the globe’s atmosphere” is and we “must reduce our carbon footprint” after flying in on his £48 million private jet. MailOnline has more.
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Their hubris will be their downfall.
Millions of people who have spent much of their last two years confined to a small radius of their home and forced to wear masks, social distance, submit to regular testing, pressure to be injected with an experimental treatment or obtain a “passport” who have lost their jobs or livelihoods or their own health or their loved ones due to neglect by the “health” service, now watch with increasing anger as these people jet around the world enriching themselves and socialising at close quarters with their globalist chums without any need for masks and vaccine passports, while lecturing us on how our lives should become even more restricted.
No.
No.
No.
Let them eat cake
Let them eat… zzzzzzzzzzzz. *falls asleep in cake*
Sleepy Joe doing his thing again @G20
Let them eat crickets.
Let them eat lab-grown cake substitute.
Let them be made into cake
Let them eat Soylent Green.
There’ll soon be lots of ingredients.
Priceless. And priceless image at the top of the article too. Boris and Biden both now caught napping at the conference. Fly in on private jet. Fall asleep. Tell slaves to stop being wasteful. Priceless.
Stop Press: Bezos. Priceless. It’s going to priceless watching the downfall of these clown kleptocrats.
Nanny forgot to remind him, naughty nanny.
Of what relevance is the hypocrisy of this conference?
The ideology behind it is nihilistic and evil, being consistently awful is not a virtue.
These tyrants demand everyone sacrifice and they will collect the sacrifices because it stands to reason that, where there are sacrifices, it stands to reason there is a collector of sacrifices.
I was watching UK Sky
PropagandaNews show by mistake today – the presenter was in Madagascar reporting on the worst drought there for 40 years that has apparently been caused by clime change emergency catastrophe. But she did not explain what caused the even worse droughts that occurred more than 40 years ago – was it the pre-climate change emergency?Listen peasant, everyone knows about the pre-climate change emergency caused by the anticipation of preanthropocentric greenhouses. BBC did a docudrama about it – you were required to watch it and worry about your concerns about it.
Sky were running a report yesterday about how the Maldives will disappear very soon due to climate panic, comments below the article were priceless, they must have regretted publishing it. I tell anybody who will listen that the Maldives is building 15 new airports as part of a tourism growth programme, slowed a bit by the Chinese flu but 5 opened recently. Doesn’t much sound like a place that is going to ‘disappear’ soon?
BBC reported yesterday that they had run out of names to give tropical storms this year. Honestly.
They said that about Tuvalu
20 years ago which is why I listed it as my home country on my Yahoo email account at the time. Those islands should be below the waves by now but photographic evidence shows the shoreline to be much the same today as then.
Incidentally, who is financing those airports? Probably either China or India for strategic reasons, worlds greatest polluters who are bunking off COP26 while getting on with life in the real world .
Does Al Gore still have his palatial beachside
residence in Malibu that he bought shortly after his ‘Inconvenient Truth’ mockumentary.
“Reef Woman of the Maldives”
The Reef Woman of the Maldives (scirp.org)
“A human skeleton was found embedded in beachrock in the Maldives. It was identified as the remains of a woman, died, killed or washed ashore at a former shore at about AD 1150. The shore was at the same elevation as today’s shore. Sea rose to about +60 cm, covering the skeleton with coral rubble. Sea fell again to its present position, cementing the shore deposits into beachrock including the skeleton. In sub-recent time, the beachrock was trimmed into a rock-cut platform at sea level of about +20 cm. In the 1970s, sea level fell to its present position, starting to erode a new rock-cut platform at about present high-tide level, by that exposing the old skeleton.”
Drought probably caused by the eradication of forests in favour of palm oil plantations and, ironically, sisal plants which are used to make biodegradable packaging to salve the conscience of planet saving Westerners.
Perhaps he’ll succumb to The Blak Death which still lingers on that island.
Your last sentence mirrors my thoughts whenever they say worst/highest wotever since 1905 . . . Extreme temperatures is why the Edwardians abandoned wing collars.
Why do people believe in this crap
COP-26 News Day One – YouTube
Because they have short and defective memories
Great find but how come NASA are allowed to tell the truth?
Such temperatures were the reason why the British Imperial rulers removed themselves from Delhi during the summer months, preferring the more moderate climate in the foothills of the Himalayas at Simla I believe.
My defective memory still remembers the BBC warning me that we were about to undergo another ice age and that Norway would be completely consumed in Acid Rain.
Plainly the Earth isn’t short of two particular metals, namely copper and zinc. If it were, it couldn’t furnish enough for all the Brass Necks now clustering like locusts in Glasgow.
Speaking of locusts, I trust that they, or some other forms of insect life, will figure largely on the banqueting menus of this shower.
Jeff Bezos told COP26 how going to space allowed him to catch Skittles in his mouth.
The ones I normally throw are bloody great wooden things.
I’ve just realised (what me, slow?) that Bozo is not getting his commands from Carrie. He obviously now has a schoolboy (well, he never reached adulthood, after all) crush on Greta and feebly echoes all her outpourings in the hope of catching her heart!
She is, now, apparently of age, and given that satyr’s past history, ripe for the plucking.
If arriving by train is good enough for, uninvited, Greta why isn’t it for bozo who should be following in the footsteps of the new Mother Theresa.
MEGA IMPORTANT STORY
Just found this story from Off G, this is massive and I hope Daily Sceptic will be giving this the light of day it so truly deserves. Dr Mike Yeadon offers his analysis too, always great to hear what he has to say.
https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/31/100-percent-of-covid-19-vaccine-deaths-caused-by-just-5-percent-of-the-batches-produced/
Analysis: 100% of Deaths Following COVID-19 Shots are From Only 5% of the Manufacturer Lots According to VAERS
https://medicalkidnap.com/2021/11/01/analysis-100-of-deaths-following-covid-19-shots-are-from-only-5-of-the-manufacturer-lots-according-to-vaers/
That’s so yesterday
I’m so cynical now, that I look for traps in everything and the trap I see here is that they can now ‘fix’ the deaths and injuries because of course it was only ‘a few bad batches’ that inadvertently got through the normally excellent production process.
What Anti_socialist is referring to is that a similar piece was a main article in yesterdays Daily Sceptic.
Just been to wattsupwiththat and found an excellent sketch of Bunter and friends.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/11/02/cop26-and-the-hubris-of-our-political-overlords/
(Also a good article showing the effectiveness of all these COP get-togethers!)
Pic good to cut out and keep.
Is there a uk equivalent of “let’s go Brandon”?
No: we tend to be more upfront – Fuck OFF, Bozo!
I find it particularly offensive and sickening to see these tinpot dictators wearing the poppy. The audacity and sheer brass neck of these people is utterly astounding. It is an affront to the heroism of our forefathers, real men, decent men who would loathe these shameless tyrants.
Watch this from Neil Oliver the best anti COP26 you will ever see. Neils days on tv must now be numbered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U2UoR-oB1M
Earth depends on these pricks.
The absolute state of them! It’s a good job that the earth/world does not depend on these self-important, sententious bastards, and will be in fine shape long after the latest climate crusaders/fanatics have gone.
They all look like they were out on the lash the night before, and can’t hack it next day….all at our expense, of course.
They look bored shitless. They look utterly disinterested. They know it’s all bollocks.
While we might hope that these fools agenda will be washed away when millions of us find we have to use a digital currency, eat one meal a day of bugs and insects and rent our living space from ‘Amazon Life Pods’ I fear that the previous actions of one of them will result in a much greater disaster in Europe. I refer to the individual sitting on the left of the photo – Comrade Guterres, UN General Secretary.
A month before he took up his post he attended a conference in his home city Lisbon where in a speech he ‘urged European Union politicians and bureaucrats to ignore their voters and open up their borders, claiming the growing Islamic tsunami of African and Middle Eastern Immigration into the West was “inevitable” anyway. Speaking like a committed globalist, the Socialist UN boss also said that “multi-ethnic,” “multi-religious,” and “multi-cultural” societies would be the only ones to succeed. Notice his statement … ‘Ignore their voters’.
Well HE succeeded .. the borders were opened… they still are … I fear that his project will make all this CO2 stuff and all the other garbage (CRT, Woke, decolonising the curiculum, trans etc, there are using to destroy us) irelevant in the not too distant future. (sorry this is OT for this site. This issue of migration has been exercising me more than anything else in my whole life.)
See the chart provided by reader Mark the other day which shows population growth flatlining across the globe except for Africa where such growth is more than the rest of the world put together.
That growth being based on such things as improved sanitation, food supply, dare I say Globalisation and education largely provided by The West. China meanwhile will reap the rewards by replacing the crumbled infrastructure as originally provided by imperial overlords.
We still regard Africa as the poor continent but now many countries there count as middle income with economic growth rates much higher than ours. That may in time replicate the pattern of increasing income resulting in reduced birth rates but only if the kleptomaniac dictators don’t steal it first in the style of Ghadafi.
Ignoring voters has been the normal way within the EU for decades, indeed that sorry institution could not exist otherwise.
Look at them. sitting there like old sacks of rotting potatoes. WAKEY WAKEY!!! Christ, what a mess…a very, very dangerous mess!
Now listen here folks, don’t you think you’re all being a little unreasonable?
Don’t you know that just like Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash, it’s quite acceptable for ‘sophisticated’ people like these to operate above the rules we plebs have to follow?
They’re so much more important than us and we should get used to it.
In the fifteen year old movie The Bucket List an opening sequence shows hospital development plutocrat Jack Nicholson being served a sumptuous banquet in the hospital room he is obliged to share with blue collar fellow patient Morgan Freeman who subsides on pea soup.
Initially Jack does not regard this as unreasonable “Its MY hospital!”
Slouching towards Bethlehem, my first thought.
Neil Oliver: We haven’t even got past Halloween but it’s already panto season at COP26
Excellent summary by Neil Oliver who, although he does not explicitly mention the Controlled Conspiracy, will soon follow the furrow walked by David Bellamy some twenty years ago when he upset the greenies and so was disappeared as the nations favourite Biologist from our TV screens.
Good to see Neil on a better medium than Zoom which makes everyone look like a ghoul.
I got hammered for this comment previously and I’ll get hammered again now:
This won’t weaken any of these hypocrites but will actually make them stronger.
Because the hypocrisy story is one short news cycle, but they will continue with green agenda BS and their hypocrisy. And the population will be demoralised by the reality that there is nothing we can do to stop these psychos. And in the end that powerlessness morphs into admiration.
People end up adoring their dictators as long as the dictator doesn’t abuse the population too much. Just enough to remind them who is the dictator and who is the dictated.
You’re right, there’s sweet FA we can do to stop it! What’s worse is the majority will accept their slavery as they always have, humans are now only there to serve the system.
With current & future technology, most people are redundant, surplus to requirements. The “elite” aren’t even bothering to pretend any more, they know the little people are in a hopeless position, its time to sit back, open the popcorn & watch the technocratic take-over.
Can’t see anything hammer worthy in that post.
If two years ago the ‘never had it so good’ populations of the West had suddenly been ordered to stop work, stay home and only venture out for essential purposes while wearing a mask with the simultaneous proviso that they would be excused all of that provided they immediately queued up to take a hitherto unknown dose of a mysterious ‘vaccine’ it would not have worked.
The 70-80-90% (who knows?) majority that have been vaxxed will be only too pleased to be granted what is being presented as Freedom while adoring the dictators who grant it to them. They think it will bring an end of the constant ratcheting up and partial relaxing of restrictions they have become used to and if the minority of awkward and dangerous anti-vaxxers don’t share that new freedom, why should they care?
Meanwhile Alex Belfield has sleepy Joe’s 85 car entourage on YouTube
“Jeff Bezos told COP26 how going to space…”
You have to wonder how much CO2 per person going to space generates. Online, the estimates appear to be about 300 metric tons for the trip.
Worldometers has a country by country analysis of the per capita CO2 footprint:
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/
looks like that one space flight by Jeff Bezos generated more CO2 than the average Mexican generates in his whole life. And more than the average Japanese person generates in around 30 years. Or the average Brit in 55 years.
For 180 seconds in space. And how much CO2 does this man generate on the other 364 days in the year…
I don’t mind if they shoot holes in their own feet.
As the more hypocritical they are the more people they’ll annoy, I reckon they’re scoring an own goal which increases the sceptics’ tally and is fine by me
Looks like one minute to midnight is past Johnson’s bedtime
Boris should have got on one of his (Boris Bikes) and cycled back to London, now that would have made a story with all the hacks (reporters) following him every mile and spreading the message… LOL,LOL,LOL
If you are really interested in all this environment stuff, then the National Grid has got a great smartphone app.
WhenToPlugIn App | National Grid Group
Always happy to oblige…
“The Prime Minister left himself open to accusations of hypocrisy”
Let me fix that for you
“The Prime Minister is a shameless hypocrite”
To be fair to Johnson, much as I dislike him for all that he’s done, at least he’s not wearing a mask which may be a sign he’s a COVID sceptic. He also flew home on a private jet which may be a sign he’s a climate change sceptic. He is likely under a lot of pressure from others with financial and control interests to make decisions he might be against. Could this be a sign that he is resisting? Too much to hope I guess…
Here’s a curveball: Are we perhaps supposed to see leaders as hypocrites and charlatans? If world governance is the ultimate aim, the downfall of national leaders must be brought about….?
And ‘we’ are supposed to beg the WHO and their cronies to get us out of this mess? It’s an interesting idea. I do not consider ‘we’ to include us, i.e. most people on this website, to be clear.
By ‘we’ I meant their target audience. The drooling unwashed useless eaters they seem to think we are!
So his private plane produces less emission than the electric train from Glasgow to London? Pull the other one!
What a total bunch of hypocrites. Another blatant example of “rules for thee but not for me”
I would also wager in 5 years time there will have been, once again, zero progress from these global clowns
Fly on private jet? Course he will. Like the rest of them he just doesn’t get it, doesn’t understand why we’re angry at the blatant hypocrisy of it all, not to mention that we never voted for this ‘green’ stuff, there is no mandate for it, it wasn’t in the manifesto and it’s not on our list of priorities.
Boris looks like he could have done with the extra couple of hours on the train to catch up on his sleep. Time constraints my arse – the country would be better off not having that buffoon with his hands on the reins for a couple more hours.