BY ALEX STORY
In the UK, temperatures this summer have been normal.
Across much of Europe, the weather has been rather damp.
There have been some warm spells, of course, but nothing out of the ordinary.
To anyone with an understanding of history, this season was very much par for the course.
And yet, our media and our leaders have screamed like headless chickens about global warming the moment the thermometer climbed over 86-degrees Fahrenheit.
Few outdid UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, as he declared ludicrously on July 27th, 2023 “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived” in front of rows of empty chairs. Colleagues, staff and journalists were probably just too preoccupied with getting themselves a good sunbathe on some exclusive beach nearby.
Guterres added, in a perfunctory and shameless way befitting of Maoist-style lower grade University slogans, that governments around the world “must step up for climate action and climate justice”.
Few should be surprised. Guterres was the President of Socialist International, an organisation big on the global coordination of fashionable and well-funded platitudes and little concerned about the local working man.
To many, climate action and climate justice for governments seems like a bridge too far. After all, our governments cannot seem to do the simplest things anymore. They cannot stop rubber dinghies from crossing the Channel or punish in a befitting manner the multitude of grooming gang members, who populated much of our urban landscape. They cannot even stop thousands of children from sacrificing themselves on the deadly altar of gender ideology.
And yet, governments along with much of our media, and whoever lobbies them most effectively, fervently pretend to believe, better to deceive, that they can control the Elements.
Both jump on disasters, such as wildfires, with a deeply suspect eagerness.
When such a tragedy happens, the seemingly powerful propaganda apparatus cranks into gear. Constant images of burning forests, of people fleeing their homes as the fatal flames approach, followed by goat-like bleating about the “end of the world as we know it” is offered to an increasingly, and rightly, sceptical public.
No time is invested in investigating the facts at all.
Our media correspondents feel no pang of shame in reading from the International Panel on Climate Change script written thirty years ago, and yearly disproven. Their full self-imposed compliance with the current orthodoxy is what affords them their mortgages and lifestyles.
Why should they sacrifice these to keep you and I accurately briefed?
To them, facts no longer matter, not least when they do not align with the beliefs they sanctimoniously claim to have. There was no greater illustration of this than this summer’s devastating and deadly wildfires in Greece.
The many blazes sent our leaders into a paroxysm of religious-like self-righteousness. To them, the catastrophe could only have had one origin: “Climate Change”.
Soon after the wildfires spread, the local authorities pointed to arsonists as being the perpetrators. However, their local knowledge and gathering of facts were, in some cases, wilfully ignored. By the media, our unabashed politicians, NGOs and politicised corporations. They remained tone deaf. But the facts kept piling up and soon became incontrovertible.
Indeed, the Greek police recently made 79 arson arrests over the wildfires ravaging the country which have been responsible for at least twenty deaths and an incredible amount of physical destruction.
European Union Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič thought that with more than 73,000 hectares burned, “the fires in Alexandroupolis are officially the largest wildfires ever recorded in the European Union”.
Greek Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias did not hold back during a televised interview a few days ago saying: “”Arsonist scum are setting fires that threaten forests, property and, most of all, human lives”. He added: “You are committing a crime against the country. What is happening is not just impermissible, but obscene and criminal.” To make matters clear, he issued the following threat: “You will not get away with it, we will find you, you will be held accountable”.
Perhaps he should start with UN Secretary-General António Guterres. When the latter called for “Climate Action and Climate Justice”, his words were heeded. The action was fire-starting.
The justice, in the inverted world into which we are rapidly sinking, is the act of murdering men, women and children indiscriminately, artificially risking physical devastation, and humiliating a whole nation in order to prop up an increasingly discredited theory of man-made climate change.
The responsibility for such acts must fall to the ones who are pushing this destructive ideology. It is not enough to arrest the army of pyromaniacs, who have committed the act of arson.
Minister Vassilis Kikilias, the Greek Government and her people must launch the equivalent of a Royal Commission on these horrendous crimes and leave no stone unturned. This thorough investigation must include the sources of funding, the ideology that drove these people to start the fires and the support they received in order to coordinate their actions in such a fashion.
It might well be that these 79 people all started fires together in the same region of the same country by complete coincidence. If this is the case, we have truly arrived at the proverbial “month of Sundays”.
More likely, this act of terrorism was premeditated – a Greek 9/11 as it were.
And we should stand shoulder to shoulder with the Greeks to help them solve this unspeakable transgression.
Alex Story is Head of Business Development at a City broker working with Hedge Funds and other financial institutions. He stood for parliament in 2005, 2010 and 2015. In 2016, he won the right to represent Yorkshire & the Humber in the European Parliament. He didn’t take the seat.