AS the next Climate Jamboree, the on/off COP26, approaches, the BBC has been busy ramping up its propaganda to ever more absurd levels, with Roger Harrabin and Matt McGrath, truly the Laurel and Hardy of environmental journalism, at the helm.
This week the Beeb has been broadcasting a series of make-believe reports on what sport will look like in 2050, thanks to global warming. Flooded football pitches, scorched tennis courts, no more Winter Olympics and an end to outdoor sport as we know it. If this scary imaginative future sounds like needless, made-up fear-porn, that’s because it is.
The series kicked off with with an interview with Joe Root, who said it was ‘scary to think that cricket may not be played outdoors in certain parts of the world in 30 years’ time because of the impact of climate change.’ Joe, you may recall, had to be taken to hospital for dehydration three years ago after batting in sweltering heat in Sydney. It was so hot that day that temperatures nearly reached those recorded in 1939!
Joe may be our best batsman, but as far as climate change is concerned, he appears to have left his brain in his kit bag. The Aussies play their test cricket in December and January, not because those months are the coolest but because they are the hottest. If it really does get much hotter, all they have to do is bring matches forward to November or push them back to February.
Meanwhile Joe’s fellow players back home would be excused for wondering which planet he was on, while they shiver through a cold, wet May!
