Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has performed his first Government U-turn and said he will now attend the COP27 climate summit, having previously said he was too busy preparing for the November 17th autumn statement. Sucking up to the eco-zealots he had offended by his apparent indifference, he tweeted: “There is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change. There is no energy security without investing in renewables. That is why I will attend COP27 next week: to deliver on Glasgow’s legacy of building a secure and sustainable future.”
Katy Balls at the Spectator looks at what’s behind the move.
So, what’s behind the change of heart? There have been signs since the weekend that Sunak could go after all. The Prime Minister faced criticism from his own climate adviser Alok Sharma for skipping out on the event in Egypt. Meanwhile, Sunak’s predecessor Boris Johnson had made it clear he would attend – firing a potshot at those in the Tory party for whom last year’s COP26 had become unfashionable. Labour were also on the attack – suggesting Sunak’s absence would amount to a failure of leadership. Ultimately it’s two factors that led Sunak to change tack.
The first is that it provides an opportunity to meet with many world leaders for the first time since he entered No. 10. The second is parliamentary management. There were enough MPs who had made it clear they viewed Sunak’s absence as a mistake that it focussed minds. Given the infighting and bad blood of the past few months, there is a key focus in the coming weeks on parliamentary management and bringing MPs on side.
The question is, what else will he cave-in on after he says he’s ‘decided’ something, especially something unfashionable (like appointing Suella Braverman), and do those around him now sense weakness?
Obviously it’s greatly disappointing to hear him repeat the eco-fantasist mantra that “there is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change” – the opposite of the truth. Even the IPCC does not predict any great economic catastrophe from not reducing carbon dioxide emissions, just moderately reduced GDP (around 2.6%). Yet the economic consequences of trying to move away from fossil fuels with immature and unsuitable alternatives are plainly actually catastrophic. These points have been widely made by Net Zero sceptics, but Sunak’s latest pronouncement sadly suggests he is not listening to anyone outside the climate doomsday cult.
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Teaching pupils about climate change is completely bizarre. They’re not supposed to worry about political decisions they’re at least old enough to vote.
Truly terrifying that this highly politicised ideological propaganda is being taught even in language classes. Whatever happened to the utility of un cafe et une croissante s’il vous plait? Are you only expected to converse with the French about ‘le climat’ these days rather than their amazing food – or the footy, for example? So sad.
(One correction though – the UK’s climate is described as temperate maritime and is not ‘extreme’. Go anywhere away from coasts into continental land masses and the weather does become more extreme – compare London with Berlin or Warsaw, for example.)
Pure indoctrination.
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Another excellent piece Jack. Good to know all is not lost in future generations. Well done keep up the good work.
I first became aware of the climate change fallacy when I began reading Mark Steyn around 2008-2010. At the time I was teaching English as a foreign language and I realised to my horror that climate change propaganda was all through the course books I was using to teach. Every text book has a chapter on the environment. No wonder, really, seeing they are published by Oxford University Press and the British Council.
These people managed to capture a generation of people who were to become politicians by begin anti-establishment and thus (viewed from the eyes of a teenager) somehow cool and important. I’ve already encountered people in their twenties who simply roll their eyes when they hear the word climate because they simply can’t stand it anymore. And there’s more of this to come. The COPsers are digging their own graves with this approach because they’re doing exactly what the people who lost out against them did in order to fight them.
Hear hear. Keep fighting the good fight, Jack.
All summed up neatly here: https://youtu.be/bDcjDc288S4