Worrying

Foreign doom-mongers and namby-pamby nay-sayers are once more marshalling mere facts in their destructive downplaying of Global Britain's leadership in the fight against climate change within the bounds of reasonable possibility and profit for the right sort of people. A report co-authored by a former fossil fuel executive and endorsed by the former chief of the Australian armed forces predicts the end of civilisation by mid-century if governments continue their present course. Meanwhile, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen steeply for the seventh consecutive year, and the jabbering homunculus which Her Majesty's Government employs instead of an environment minister has been having a jolly old jowl-wag with the leader of the reality-free world and his hydrophobic head-tribble. Nevertheless, while naturally stopping short of splashing the story across the front page (it is not, after all, a blather by Boris Johnson, let alone a pronunciamento from the strutting Caudillo of the Farage Falange), the Independent newspaper did concede that the report's conclusions were "worrying".