Commentary The great green high summits. There have been about 30 of these gigantic environmental misery-fests known as the conference of the parties (COP) sponsored by the dread Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since the very early ’90s. And the volume of ego-display and hot-air release has only expanded with each one of them. Ignore the hypocrisy of the damn things with their preening billionaires, yacht-dwelling movie stars, fat-chequed TV presenters, and lecture-circuit green celebs—mainly because the hypocrisy is too thick and the hypocrites too numerous. What have they done, apart from sunning themselves under the TV lamps of the world’s mostly craven and obliging press, strutting around the huge luxury conference venues dropping their tired alarms about cow flatulence, offering rapturous incense to the soft-voiced whale-song of David Attenborough voice-overs, and receiving callow jeremiads from dropout grim Greta, the teenager and the nonagenarian of the Green Apocalypse, the Bat-Person …
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