Jonathon Porritt (technically, Sir Jonathon Espie Porritt, 2nd Baronet, CBE) has an excellent piece out, called "Mainstream climate science: The new denialism?"
It really is worth the read. For people who have followed this blog, it won't be shockingly new, but in a forthright manner he questions the startling new reality we are facing, which we discussed in recent series for Pearls&Irritations:
- Humanity’s new era of “global boiling”: Climate’s 2023 annus horribilis
- Towards an unliveable planet: Climate’s 2023 annus horribilis
- Shock as warming accelerates, 1.5°C is breached faster than forecast
Porritt focusses on the "deceit" of "mainstream scientists, NGOs and commentators" have been "holding back" because of the alleged need to "protect people from the truth of climate change", noting that this strategy has not worked "as a way of enlisting the huge numbers of people required to force our politicians to start getting serious".
And he concludes that "we have to see off this patronising, manipulative, self-serving deceit ONCE AND FOR ALL".
