COP26's battle cry is "Bureaucrats of the world unite! You have nothing to fear except expanding your departments forever!"

Prosperity must breed narcissism and hubris because a significant proportion of the populations of western countries has gone mad. With a new Nazi Germany in the east threatening a new Czechoslovakia, and making illegal territorial claims on an entire ocean, the chickenlittles of the west are running around screaming that "the sky is getting hotter!"

It is just amazing. Charles Essery, who wrote this article says that the climate scientists have put a figure of 1.1 degrees C as the human component of global warming? Yeah? Not one degree, 1.1 degree. WOW! They are seriously telling us that their computer modelling (because that's all it is) can predict even 0.1 of a degree rise in temperature caused by human CO2 emissions. Complete BS. Even the IPCC stated in it's founding charter that there were so many factors governing the climate of the earth that it was impossible to figure out what was causing what. I guess they hoped that everyone had forgotten what their own statement once declared? Even Steelredux and Foxy would be too smart to accept that.

Well, maybe?

Bureaucracies have proliferated to such an extent in the western world that they now think that they are the government. And they are banding together to Save The World. People can be relied upon to get all morally pure when their jobs are so safe that they can never be unemployed, and their indexed linked pensions will see them into a comfortable retirement. They know that their stupid "world saving" policies are going to cause massive unemployment and financial hardship to everybody. Themselves excluded.

But Saving The World by expanding their departments seems like a noble idea to them. And it makes them feel good about themselves. Even better are those conferences in exotic locations booked in five star hotels, where the bureaucrats of the world pat each other on the back and toast their nobility with chilled Merlot. Not to mention the shopping.

To hell with the peasantry.

If bureaucracies were to be made reliant on their merit they'd be extinct by the weekend !

Well aid Prof Essery, I saw you lecture at UWS ten years ago, and you certainly shook the comfort zone of then faculty, particularly that DVC Kibble.

Its amazing that your factual dissection of the 97 clause have not been attacked by the usually climate change cultist.. Maybe they can't and are still licking their post COP26 wounds of failure.

Ps why did you leave in 1009 and where did you go?

Thank god there are still a few countries who call a spade a spade, & don't mind saying it out loud.

I wonder if the people of the UK & Germany in particular will discover a back bone, & start shouting that global warming policies are BS, as the no nonsense Tony Abbot once declared, before they freeze to death.

More important, will Ozzies wake up some time soon, after seeing over there, [& in South Oz], the catastrophe that wind mills really are, or will we have to start living in the dark, to finally get some sense, & perhaps even one of those back bones ourselves.

That's why I gave up on the liberals, having had to work under the Labour Gov in NSW ( the Carr gang).

Tony Abbott (the mad monk, "tee-hee" if recall the pubescent misandrists of their ABC call him) was treated shamefullyy by the Libs, thank god they realised ( too late ) that Emperor Mal was a plonker working for the Labour Party ( just like his NSW protégé Treasurer Matt "Green" Kean!

Money is on both sides. And talkfests give the illusion of progress while address the squaeky wheel. I am sure the coal industry loves the subsidies for domestic use in Australia to help sustain them. I look at it like this, dont engage in an argument about climate change, I prefer to use renewables as they are not dependant on someone digging up stuff to fuel them, can be generated near the demand and dont pollute the atmosphere with stuff. saves a lot of debate