Today in the UK the heatwave continues, the Met Office predicting an all time July temperature high of 37’C. So things are not looking good on the climate change front. Yesterday Greenpeace volunteers wearing ‘Climate Emergency’ vests and sashes briefly blocked the Boris Johnson motorcade en route to Buckingham Palace where he was to meet the Queen.
Greenpeace say they handed the new PM a guide on how to tackle the climate crisis. But will he take action, they ask. It now transpires, as reported by Peter Geoghegan at openDemocracy, that both he and Jeremy Hunt received campaign funding of £25,000 apiece from First Corporate Shipping Company, the trading name of Bristol Port whose influential owners, the report says, are climate change sceptics. (Hunt has declared the donation here).
But let Boris speak for himself as he pronounces on the 2015 Paris Climate Summit at the end of his account of a most exerting game of makeshift ping-pong at his office Christmas party:
It is fantastic news that the world has agreed to cut pollution and help people save money, but I am sure that those global leaders were driven by a primitive fear that the present ambient warm weather is somehow caused by humanity; and that fear – as far as I understand the science – is equally without foundation.
Boris Johnson The Telegraph 20 December 2015
For further insight into the jolly japes chappie we now have as PM, you can read the whole thing HERE
Tish Farrell 
Aaargh, politicians…
And those who fund them!
True…
Sounds like your politicians will get along rilliantly with the Australian ones. Our lot feel much the same about climate change!
Dismal, isn’t it. Especially when at the very least, so much environmental degradation which we do know is caused by humanity (deforestation, mining, oil drilling, over-grazing) – which does affect climate on a local and regional basis, is so blindingly existent all over the planet.
Yes. I’ve given up on Australian politics and our media which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Surely the miuntIng evidence that something is desperately wrong will galvanize change but at the moment it doesn’t appear to be.
That man is a global menace
Yes he is. Sometimes I think we are living in an episode of Dr Who. Men like Murdoch have a button at the back of their neck. When the button is pushed the human skin sloughs and reveals their true reptilian identity 😀
I am liking your glorious photo . . . . . . I cannot repeat what I muttered when I read what Boris said!
Well I know what I said…
sounds like your leader, our American leader, and the Aussie leader will get along splendidly. 3 buffoons. love the pics.
Indeed, Beth – the age of buffoonery is upon us.
Love your images and hate ignorant and self indulging leaders.
Such leaders seem to be the norm now – every issue reduced to a tweet or sound-bite.
Exasperating.
And he will get along just fine with our current premier of Ontario, Doug Ford and the wanna be Conservative prime minister running in our next federal election, Andrew Scheer, #ScheerWeakness.
So many substandard individuals in positions of power!
We’re doomed…
It rather feels that way.
Everything here was starting to get that sad scorched look when, thankfully, the rains came.
I hadn’t quite finished when I accidentally sent this. We need worldwide wisdom, sans ego, to shape the future.
I so agree. And there are a lot of wise folks about. The barrier to their making their mark is the big corporate hegemony.
Yes we’ve gone swiftly into late summer dusty dryness, though not much rain on the horizon it seems.
Fear not, Tish! We arrive Sunday evening and I’m sure climate will change 😆☔⛅💕 Love your photo xx
Well thanks in advance for a climate change. We have hot sun and thundery rumbles at the mo’.
Hot air and Boris, you mean? 😆
Ha! Sums things up nicely.
Love your golden landscapes! Crazy to think that your temps are higher than ours here in Curaçao (consistently with a high of 27-29 C). Scary times with scary “leaders”. Good time to be sailing. I may never come home.
Forever voyaging – that’s an enthralling prospect 🙂
37 deg C must be really hot.
Great landscape photo, Tish
Very hot for us! Hotter on the Continent though.
What a knob. Let’s hope the circus only stays in town a couple of nights.
Well put, Ali.
‘…as far as I understand the science…’ … there’s the problem, right there! What an arrogant ignoramus!!!
But now we’re stuck with him!
When he first came on the scene I though he was a joke, but then I thought Trump was too.
And the thought of their cosying up together which is already happening…
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Thanks, Pete.
Gorgeous photos. As for Boris, and others of his ilk may their time in office be short.
Alison
We can only hope. We didn’t even get to vote for or against Boris. He just arrived!
😦
… and I just felt my blood pressure crank up. Grrrr. It all boils down to greed overriding everything else 😡