Even after all these years

Even after all these years, the language used at speeches made at COP31 still surprises me. How does an adult with a modicum of self respect stand at a lectern before global media and an audience of other adults and emit the kind of twaddle we get every year? 

Where is the self-respect in this fairly typical Guardian piece? I've extracted some of the twaddle, but it's all twaddle and it's demeaning for anyone, any institution, any government taking it seriously. Yes it's grotesquely dishonest and many COP31 attendees won't take it seriously, but that's demeaning too. We are all lessened by it. 

‘The world we know is over’ without urgent climate action, leaders tell COP31

Failure to provide an overwhelming response to the climate crisis
the president of the embattled Marshall Islands has warned,
an impassioned speech at Cop31
overshooting the 1.5C Paris temperature target
waves eating away their shores
floods that destroy towns, schools and hospitals.
“It’s time to wake up,” said Heine
governments who had “not tried hard enough”
The UN tells us
we are heading for 2.6 degrees
Let me be plain: overshoot is not a new target

Finally we have this desperate nonsense from António Guterres -

“We need an extraordinary acceleration,” Guterres said. “Our planet is heating up. The clock is winding down. It’s make or bake time.

“Fossil fuels must go the way of the dinosaurs,” he added. “And that won’t happen on its own. The dinosaurs did not have a lobby – fossil fuels do.”