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HERE WE GO AGAIN...

Back in the Summer we had the unlikely venue of Carbis Bay in Cornwall for the meeting of the G7.   I suspect the good folk of Cornwall might still be counting the cost in all sorts of ways.   And now it`s the turn of Glasgow, of all places, to host the latest round of Climate Change `Conferences` stretching for ten days - yes, ten days - from 31 October to 12 November.  It`s known as COP 26 and the aim of this `summit` is to `bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.`   The UK is apparently `committed to working with all countries and joining forces with civil society, companies and people on the frontline of climate change to inspire action......`    You get the drift here.

The scale of the whole thing is mind blowing - 30,000 delegates from 200 countries, thousands of protesters, phalanxes of police and security and press and media representatives -  a cast of thousands making the production for an event that would outstrip any Cecil B de Mille production.   The logistics about travel, accommodation, Covid things and stuff like that are challenging - as is the effect it will have on the good folk of Glasgow, the environment and the emissions contributing to global warming that the event is supposedly concerned with.

And then we have Greta.  Or maybe not. She has been a bit quiet of late, having had a year off before resuming her schooling and the silence has bordered on being golden.   Sadly, she is back in business, this time having a right go at the UK for not doing enough to meet her demands and also dismissing Scotland`s claim to be a `world leader` in approaching climate change.   She has graciously stated that she may not attend Cop 26 `unless it is safe to do so with delegates from all countries being vaccinated` but if she does she will be travelling by train - presumably not a diesel locomotive.  I wonder if she has actually been invited to attend or whether she feels she can just turn up anyway.

Not for the first time I have found it not only astonishing but also seriously disappointing that the world, his wife, the Pope and heads of governments across the globe actually take seriously the shrill `demands` of this unedifying adolescent who seems to have achieved a kind of misplaced acceptance in a world which seems terrified of denying her clamorous persona.   She`s not the Messiah, she`s just a very annoying young lady.