Tuesday 8 November 2022
Boris at the Synod of Sharm
Former PM Boris Johnson criticises net zero 'naysayers' who want to 'frack the hell out of the British countryside' in appearance at COP27
Boris Johnson described himself as "the spirit of Glasgow COP26" as he called for the legacy of last year's climate summit hosted in the UK to be "taken forward" as a "joint global endeavour".
Speaking at an event hosted by The New York Times on the first day of the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, the former prime minister said the fight against climate change had become a "collateral victim" of the Ukraine war, which caused "naysayers to adopt a corrosive cynicism about net zero".
Maybe Boris is after a global, bootlicking sinecure. It certainly looks like it from my little spot in the corrosive cynicism camp.
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We had a holiday in Sharm a few years ago.
The whole place, town, hotels and airport was powered by diesel.
Just inland of the buildings was a huge array of big diesel electric generators thrashing away 24 hours a day.There were dozens, if not hundreds of the things.
I wonder if they are still there.
Their very existence seems to be scrubbed from the Interwebs.
Probably all screened off literally and metaphorically to prevent palpitations and conniptions among the faithful, who won't dare ask where the power for all that cool air, beer and ice for the aperatifs comes from.
They will be told that Sharm is totally powered by solar, with banks of floodlights to keep the power going through the night.
I've only seen two oil wells in the UK. One on an island in Poole Harbour, and one near us in the South Downs at Singleton. You wouldn't know they were there unless you looked for them. Farmers make more mess.
This is just an indicator of what he always was, a selfish self serving egotist.
Doonhamer - interesting. I bet at least some of the journalists know about the diesel electric generators, but somehow that isn't the story they pursue.
Sam - fracking wells are supposed to be similar, very little visual impact.
Tammly - I agree, Brexit was probably just his chosen way to make his mark.
Also wind turbines stretching 250 feet to the sky are invisible, as are the wildlife they they kill.
And of course they do not need substantial foundations, permanent interconnecting roads and a web of copper to carry the millijoules away.
We ignore the mining and purification horrors of obtaining the materials.
Now excuse me, I have a private jet to catch.
Doonhamer - and of course they last forever, never need replacing, materials never need recycling.
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