The closer we get to even the Warministas realising that the world is not going to cut GHG emissions to the degree they claim we need – especially with the Developing World pumping them up – the closer they get to primal screaming about how it’s all gone from being a big problem in 2100 to how it’s a Climate Crisis NOW.

Or Climate Emergency. I forget which word carries greater weight.

You can see this over on things like The Daily Blog where “Bomber” Bradbury has begun to use those phrases relentlessly in the wake of Gabrielle. Whether he’ll continue to be so strident in the face of “Chippie’s” back downs on all of Labour Climate Change stuff is another question, as well as his co-blogger and fellow Non-Woke Old Lefty Chris Trotter beginning to sense reality:

IT IS ONLY SLOWLY DAWNING on climate change activists that the fight against global warming is lost. Locally, Cyclone Gabrielle has rendered their cause hopeless. By insisting that Gabrielle is slam-dunk proof that climate change is real, and demanding immediate action to mitigate its impact, the activists have, politically-speaking, over-sold their case. The idea of mitigating a weather event as destructive as Gabrielle will strike most people as nuts. If this is what global warming looks like, then most New Zealanders will want their government to help them adapt to it as soon as humanly possible. Increasingly, politicians and activists who bang-on about reducing emissions and modifying human behaviour will be laughed-off the political stage.

Activists like Bradbury really are the best, especially since their forecasts of doom are always wrong. Eh Greta?

Her deletion of the tweet suggests that even Greta knows that the sun is likely to rise on June 22, 2023. Still, she’s in good company: