Climate change is boiling brains

The head of the UN should be laughed out of office for going straight from ‘global warming’ to ‘global boiling’, without even pausing to pass ‘global heating’.

Why hasn’t the head of the United Nations been forced out of – indeed, laughed out of – office already?

UN secretary-general António Guterres – who used to be just another hack European socialist, bent on destroying their own country, in his case Portugal, before upgrading to aiming at global destruction – solemnly announced we had entered the era of “global boiling”.

Just a tad hyperbolic, just a smidgen of hysteria, there?

And going right off the climate cult script.

Didn’t he get the memo?

We had to move on from the original ‘global warming’ to the repackaged ‘climate change’, precisely because it has been hard to sustain the claim that the planet had actually, well, warmed.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutteres. Picture: Joseph EID / AFP

The term also came in handy to cover the ‘global warming’ that played out as, well, global cooling: record low temperatures and record snowfalls and the like.

And then along comes this Portuguese prat to go straight from ‘global warming’ to ‘global boiling’, without even pausing to pass ‘global heating’. Now true, Europe and the US are having unusually hot summers.

As my colleague at The Australian, Adam Creighton, succinctly put it, in a biting article taking down the idiocies of Guterres, Hillary Clinton – now there’s a couple that deserve each other - and assorted other ‘experts’.

“It is summer in the US and it’s hot, in case you’ve missed the news”.

But lest anyone feel that they could take refuge from the ‘boiling globe’ in a cooling, refreshing dip, I refer you to a timely warning in our prestigious publication, the Financial Review.

A major AFR piece actually commenced: “As red-hot oceans amplify deadly heat waves”. Red hot oceans?

Those three words could actually be published? Without the deliberate intention of advising a potential reader: read no further, even greater idiocies await? Just a tad hyperbolic? Just a smidgen of hysteria?

Why not also some ‘expert’ – or two, or four, or forty – telling us how these ‘red hot oceans’ clearly explained the mass beaching of whales last week?

They were the smart ones, seeking to get out before the mass broiling.

But then, we have also been told that July was the “hottest July (and indeed any month) in 120,000 years”.

Where do you start to unpick something so utterly stupid, meaningless and, well, unscientific, even if published in the ‘Scientific American’?

And which should have, again, sparked unqualified, universal, ridiculing laughter?

Yet it was dutifully and breathlessly repeated by an utterly inane mainstream (and indeed, even more inane social) media. And repeated right around the – official UN title, please – Boiling Globe.

In truth, we are actually drowning in a sea of what I call ‘expertism’ – the virulent post-modern antithesis of true and now almost anachronistic ‘expertise’. In sum and in short: “Shut up, I’m an expert”.

It might make absolutely no sense, but I’m an expert.

We got it in spades through Covid, building on the bed of climate change/global warming’s established expertism lies. The – boiling global - master of that was of course Victoria’s own Chairman Dan.

And now hot from setting fire to another $1bn cheque by cancelling the Games, Char Dan’s now turned off the gas.

Originally published as Climate change is boiling brains