Global boiling? Don t be ridiculous – spiked
And just like that we ve entered a new epoch. The era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived , decreed UN chief António Guterres last week. It s hard to know what s worse: the hubris and arrogance of this globalist official who imagines he has the right to declare the start of an entire new age, or the servile compliance of the media elites who lapped up his deranged edict about the coming heat death of Earth. Era of global boiling has arrived and it is terrifying , said the front page of the Guardian, as if Guterres s word was gospel, his every utterance a divine truth. We urgently need to throw the waters of reason on this delirious talk of a boiling planet.
Guterres issued his neo-papal bull about the boiling of our world in response to the heatwaves that have hit some countries over the past two weeks. Climate change is here [and] it is terrifying , he said. We see families running from the flames [and] workers collapsing in scorching heat and it is just the beginning , he said, doing his best impersonation of a 1st-century millenarian crackpot. In fact, forget climate change , he said. Forget global warming , too. What we re witnessing is a boiling. It all brings to mind the Book of Job which warned that the serpent Leviathan would cause the seas to boil like a cauldron . Leviathan s back, only we call him climate change now.
The obsequious speed with which the media turned Guterres s commandment into frontpage news was extraordinary. They behaved less like reporters than like the slavish scribes of this secular god and his delusional visions. World entering era of global boiling , cried the Independent, and we know who is responsible . No prizes for guessing who that is. It s you, me and the rest of our pesky species. It always is. Planet is boiling , one headline breezily declared, confirming that Guterres s fearful phrase, his propagandistic line no doubt drawn up with the aid of spin doctors in some UN backroom, is already being christened as fact.
Yeah, I’ve been wondering about this. We’ve been having National Weather Service alerts (announced courtesy of our Alexa) the whole summer. They consistently overstate the temperature. Just saying. And it’s hot, but not *that* hot. If it’s 88, NWS announces a warm weather alert saying it will get to be 92, which it rarely does. And 92, in July? Does that really require an alert? I recall 100+ days in July some years ago, and we never got alerts for those. But I’m sure it’s hot elsewhere. All I’m saying is that my spidey sense gets triggered.