As COP blame game gets underway, fascinating from @KarlMathiesen: “according to green groups, diplomats, observers and allies, the EU in Glasgow has appeared ineffective, constrained and at times looked inept”https://t.co/JMOal9iIEU
— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) November 12, 2021
#COPOUT26 would appear to be cursed by the rat faced seal, even before it has started.
Not only is the Queen having to pull out, because of health concerns, but the Goblin of Doom has said that she will be attending.
The question is will the Goblin be flying, yachting or (given that she is regarded as the Messiah by her slow witted worshippers) walking across the North Sea?
The mascot for COPOUT26 has been revealed, in keeping with Glasgow's plague of rats it looks like a rat (apparently it's meant to be a seal!).
🚨 | NEW: Boris Johnson has called a press conference to address climate issues ahead of COP 26. School children will ask the questions, journos won’t be allowed to
— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) October 25, 2021
Cc @MrHarryCole
Despite the hyperbole and fanfare of carbon neutral trumpets, COP26 and the government's Green agenda is not necessarily the thunder clap of doom for carbon emitting countries and devices.
For why?
1 China, Russian Iran and Saudi (four major global polluters) are not sending their leaders to COP26
2 The £5K subsidy for heat pumps does not cover the £10K-£15K cost of these things.
3 Heat pumps are noisy, and don't work well when it is cold. Hence, installing them in the average British terraced Victorian house will be pointless and probably impossible.
4 Government plans for no new gas boilers after 2035 are in fact merely an "ambition".
In short, the headlines over the next few weeks about what the government wants, and what it will cost are nothing more than hot air. In reality no one knows what the technology will look like, or cost in the coming decades (nor indeed how hot the planet may or may not become).
What the government is actually doing, is laying the framework for individuals and companies to be able to do what is necessary in the decades to come.
COP26 is BOLLOCKS!
For why?
1 President Biden and others will be burning fuel a plenty to get there.
Biden and his 46 SUV & Limo Motorcade will be attending #COP26 after arriving in 12 USAF Globemasters and Air Force 1 to discuss reducing carbon footprints.
— Old Holborn® (@Holbornlolz) October 14, 2021
I love this stuff. pic.twitter.com/lyfvsY3DQz
2 Xi of China (responsible for more than 25% of global carbon emissions) is not coming, and has ordered a massive increase in coal production to make up for China's energy shortfall.
COP26 will be hot air with little substance.
