Democracy is under mounting threat from the climate crisis, with new analysis documenting how elections are increasingly shaped not only by political forces but also by floods, wildfires and extreme weather.
Democracy is good! So, if we can link climate change to ani-democracy then hugs all around! Except Xir who is non-tactile. We win!
“Elections should be held when disasters are least likely,”
Well, define disasters – May promises one, but it isn’t climate related!
I have a bottle in the fridge ready for this disaster.
Me, too! Then an evening in Spoons….Defeat the Omnicause!
Of course that explains Bulgaria on Sunday.
But not Hungary the week before, until they realise Magyar is not a progressive by a very long shot.
Oh yes… The shock and horror when they figure that one out will be glorious…
Another of these “once democracy has brought you to you destination, you get off” moments 🙁
Seeing as the IPCC have stated in Assessment Report 7 that there has been no appreciable increase in floods, wildfires or extreme weather we can conclude that this is, once again, a load of bollocks in The Guardian.
I’m bemused by this talk of a “climate crisis”. I thought a crisis would be, at least, noticeable.
But it is. It’s called the EU, which has a climate change ideology.
It’s more that floods and wildfires are shaped by elections, because people all over the world, from California to the Cotswolds, keep voting in twats who are against actively managing woodlands and waterways. Extreme weather only looks extreme if it rains and your floodwaters have nowhere to go.
From the article:
I wonder if there might be other factors in Lagos today (population 25 million) being hotter than the Lagos of a century ago (population 100,000)….
(Also one could have some doubts about the precision of those measurements in Lagos a century ago…)
Wouldn’t have thought so. More accurate then, when taken by some chap in khaki shorts and pith helmet on the District Commissioner’s lawn.
Modern instruments always give a higher peak temperature because they react to transients in a way mercury-in-glass cannot. And as stated by Marius Lagos will have a heat island effect worth two or three degrees as .
There is also the difference between ‘bloke asked to measure the temperature just to get/keep some data going’ and ‘bloke asked to measure the temperature in the full knowledge that his job and millions of dollars in aid depend on it rising”.
OK… So Lagos ( and Nigeria in general) is a shithole because of Heat caused by the Climate Crisis.
The whole traditional corruption, nepotism, tribalism, and other things that have been going on there since the Dawn of Time ( which includes pre-Climate Crisis times….) have absolutely nothing to do with it, of course.
Singapore is closer to the equator, so it should an even worse place to live because of the Heat. I wonder what the difference is ?
The olicharch clans there are so intermarried that if one goes down, the splash damage of the egg-on-face hits all of them. 😉
“New analysis.” When done by Guardian writers and climate propagandists in general, the word cloud includes Ouroboros, incest, and echo chamber, with a little onanism chucked in.
I thought we were supposed to say CLIMATE BREAKDOWN now.
Thankyou Esteban. I’m obviously not keeping up.
________ is under mounting threat from the climate crisis
Insert GOOD word, like justice, diversity, security . . . .
Note commies will never, ever use the word FREEDOM. That’s what they are fighting.
The findings, from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an intergovernmental organisation that aims to support democracy around the world
How kind of them. I bet these people are motivated only by altruism and want nothing but what’s best for you.
I know this will amaze you, but their disclosure of their sources of funding might be considered to leave something to the imagination:
https://www.idea.int/donors
It seems that I am a Top Project Donor.
I definitely did not fucking vote for that.
#bringbackswearblogging.
The main contributor to the Greenhouse gases that promote werbil gloaming is communist China (which produces over 30% of CO2 and around half the fluourcarbons); “democracy is under mounting threat from (the world’s biggest dictatorship)” is hardly a “man bites dog” headline.
Yep. Until they start talking about nuking China . . . and India . . . they are just playing games. With your money. UK’s 0.03% contribution is a rounding error. But go ahead and destroy your economy if it makes you feel better. Or, more likely, it makes your liberal white wives happy.
That’s because we’re de-industrialising and letting them do all the work. And make all the profit.
I think it’s been almost a day since the last time I whinged about this!!
Why are we de-industrialising?
Oh! It’s thanks to “climate activists” who have made most of our industry bankrupt by forcing it to pay the highest electricity price in the world while China continues to build coal-fired power stations because imported coal is cheap.