A week in climate change, 1 May
As the feckless, fluidly mendacious convicted fraudster Donald Trump continues his campaign of diverting attention away from his past relationship with a dead paedophile by illegally attacking and blockading Iran, leading to a global rise in prices and shortages of essential products such as fertilizers, it’s perhaps easy to forget about good old climate change.
And Trump would no doubt approve of that outcome: the president and thinkers of his calibre across the world, many of them in positions of great power, have repeatedly denied that anthropogenic climate change exists at all. Having said that, perhaps if he runs out of countries to bombard with high precision lethal weaponry (that only occasionally goes awry and kills 120 schoolgirls) he might be forced to turn to the CC emergency as a means to distract the fake news media and the sheeple away from whatever emerges next from the seemingly depthless Epstein files.
But, lo, CC is still with us, and no amount of demented Telegraph articles or Reform henchmen outbursts will make it go away.
America’s democrats are currently up in arms about the Trump regime’s (pathetically predictable) plans to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget by 50%. Appearing before the Senate environment committee, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin (a close chump, sorry, chum of Trump. No. It is chump) laid out his vision of a better, more pocket-sized EPA: “This budget proposal captures significant efficiencies and a return focus on what Congress has directed us to do, demonstrating our commitment to a leaner, more efficient and accountable EPA.”
Democrat Rosa DeLauro, who had to sit and listen to the likes of that, responded: “The budget proposal reads like a climate change deniers’ manifesto.” Yes. That’s because it is.
Aren’t the Americans daft? At least here in the UK we’re a lot better informed and…only joking!
Speaking at a British Medical Council’s election hustings, Reform’s candidate for East Kilbride, Dr Tim Kelly, expressed his devotion to and admiration of both hydrocarbon extraction and carbon dioxide.
Dr Tim said that Reform would “open up the North Sea. We would stop importing gas from Norway and from America and actually use it ourselves, because if you do care about CO2, which I don’t at all, because CO2 is a plant food – it’s basic photosynthesis – I mean it’s just crazy, guys.”
He said it. Totally, incorrigibly, indisputably and miserably crazy.
And it’s a good job CC is a myth, as a fear both Reform members and MAGA types share is one of dwindling human fertility (well, the fertility of certain people, anyway) – and environmental ruin would appear to be having an adverse effect on that too.
This review reveals that manmade contaminants and rising temperatures have become brothers in arms in a species-wide attack on fecundity. Well, of course, the birds, reptiles, fish, other mammals etc don’t matter as such, but where are future crops of Aryan supermen supposed to come from? Dustbins?
Now, you may be familiar with Europe – it’s where you live, unless you happen to be reading this while living elsewhere – but it might be starting to become quite unfamiliar. For it turns out that Europe is now the fastest-warming continent, with temperatures rising more than twice as fast as the global average.
The European State of the Climate 2025 report reveals that 95% of the increasingly scorched landmass experienced above average temperatures in 2025 – good news for people that like taking photographs of themselves sunbathing that they then post on the internet for the pleasure of strangers because that’s the only item they can imagine that might give they life value, but bad news for older people, people aged under 5, unwell people, farmers, people who eat the products that farmers grow, people who drink water, business, the environment and so on.
The report reports: “Warming is reducing snow and ice cover, while dangerously high surface air temperatures, drought, and heatwaves, as well as record-high ocean temperatures, are affecting regions across the continent, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. The result is increasing impacts – from record heatwaves over land and at sea, to devastating wildfires, and accelerating biodiversity loss – with consequences for societies and ecosystems across Europe.”
Sounds quite bad, doesn’t it? But fear not: the dustbin-grown Aryan supermen of the future will not only breath nothing but the freshest C02 but also possess the skills to pass unscathed through the most ferocious of infernos; cross the mightiest of snow-free mountain tops with a single bound; swim elegantly in the chemical dust of long-dead lakes. And you can watch all these feats exclusively on GB News. Coming soon.