No ! … I’ve not quite given up blogging altogether. I guess that I have just “run out of steam” after all these years. The ‘targets’ for my rants remain more or less the same, and, at times, I forget and repeat subjects which I covered long ago.

However ! … Having said that, I was tempted to “air my views” on the recent not so jolly ‘junket’ that was COP26, where leaders of the main planet polluting nations didn’t bother to turn up to the conference. Blimey! .. Even Greta ‘Thingy’ said that it was .. a “two-week long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah”. Remind me, did she and most of the other eco-warriors not arrive by plane followed by clouds of carbon dioxide ?

Just before I go I must confirm that the same old gang of self serving, hypocritical, back stabbing, slippery chancers are sitting in the House of Commons playing with their smartphones and counting their expenses, while bonkers Boris dreams of building a bridge to Ireland at a cost of £335 Billion ! …

… need I say more ?

I do not wish to ‘make light’ of the terrible disasters taking place around the world at present, which are attributed to “climate change”: but, I have to point out that this planet’s climate has seen some pretty drastic changes during it’s existence … one clue ? .. “The Ice Age” ! .. a time when humans are known to have existed. However, I doubt if they had a hand in warming up the planet as modern man is accused of doing.

Now the United Kingdom is said to produce less than 1% of the world’s CO2 emissions, so I would be obliged if someone could explain how our government’s ill conceived and outrageously expensive plans for electric powered vehicles, more “smart meters”, changing our light bulbs, replacing our gas boilers with pricey air source heat pumps etc. and even changing our eating habits is going to help “save the planet”, when China, the USA, India and Russia produce nearly 60% of the rest of the world’s CO2 between them ? It is estimated that the Chinese will take at least 30 years before they have reduced their emissions to anything like a “safe” level, as at present they are said to have 1,082 operational coal powered plants. The UK has three, and these are due to close by 2024. I bet that Greta ‘Thingy‘ girl will be “over the moon” when she hears about that.

Oh! … and before I forget … deforestation is a major problem, and greenhouse gases will continue to be released into the atmosphere from “natural sources” throughout the world. So, does our government really believe that giving up hotdogs, lamb chops and burgers will cut down on those naturally smelly clouds of methane at their ‘farmyard’ source and prevent them from drifting up to the ozone layer and troposphere ? .. With this bunch of clowns anything is possible. However, whatever those chancers think, I bet the boys in Beijing are …

… having a good laugh !