This is wonderful news, that at last this country has addressed the threat of climate change, by declaring we’re in an official “climate change emergency”. The government rightly boasts we’re the first country to do this, so that makes us world leaders in combating carbon emissions.

The worry now is that other countries may do the same, which means we won’t be ahead of them anymore, so then we’ll have to make another declaration, that we’re officially “right up climate change sh*t street”, and we’ll be in front again.

You can tell how seriously the government takes this issue, because several of them made comments about last week’s Extinction Rebellion protest. Most of those comments were that the whole thing should be shut down because they were stinky idiot weirdos and “it’s all very well stopping us from destroying every species on the planet but there’s ABSOLUTELY NO NEED to do it in a way that makes me 10 minutes late for my weekly chest-waxing session, so I hope they all catch fire”, but they took the trouble to address them so that’s the main thing.

Maybe, when the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was hurtling towards Earth, some of the pterodactyls tried to hold a meeting about trying to escape from it, but all the others yelled “get out of our way, we’re in a hurry to get to Debenhams”, and a stegosaurus demanded they were all dispersed with a water cannon.

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Some commentators who disagreed with the protesters were more polite, and pointed out they were damaging their own cause by making so much noise and fuss. Because it’s always best, when you’re trying to prevent the destruction of a planet, to do it quietly so no one notices.

Next time, instead of blowing whistles in the road, they could write a poem to the planet that they never send, or make a swan out of paper to stop themselves getting cross.

The 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, spokesperson for the protest, became a star to many people. So it was lucky that several columnists pointed out she was a fraud, because far from being ordinary “her mother performed in the Eurovision Song Contest 10 years ago”.

This is crucial information, because it proves she’s from privileged elite stock, as it’s these bastards who have been running the world for too long.

A recent report by Oxfam revealed 96 per cent of the world is owned by offspring of ex-Eurovision singers, the greedy pigs. Sandie Shaw’s daughter owns Egypt, Dana International’s nephew controls the Pacific Ocean, and the Brotherhood of Man have spawned an entire race of so-called climate change protesters, just so they can block up European capitals while they cackle in an underground cave, as “Save Your Kisses for Me” plays on a continuous loop.

But also, Thunberg’s relationship to Eurovision disqualifies anything she says about the science of climate change. This is one of the first rules of academic research. This is why there was panic recently in the scientific community, when it was rumoured that Isaac Newton’s dad was a minstrel in Eurovision in 1653, which would mean gravity doesn’t exist, and apples can stop falling off trees at last.

But now we’re in a climate change emergency, so we should sort everything out before long. For example, Michael Gove assured us there’s a “green thread of ambition through Conservative governments”. Proof of this is at the recent climate change debate in parliament, as many as 10 Conservative MPs turned up to it.

That shows what you can achieve once you’ve got ambition. You can imagine a motivational speaker, inspiring followers by saying: “I want you to reach deep down inside yourself, and say out loud: ‘When I believe in something, I will get one person out of 30 to turn up to a debate about it, because I have AMBITION’.”

The government also displayed its green thread, by telling students who protested about climate change, they should be ashamed of “wasting time as they should be in lessons”.

David “Solar-Panel” Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth, said two weeks ago about climate change: “A rise of less than one degree, partly due to the end of the little ice age, doesn’t mean we should ban cars, flying and everything else which makes the 21st century so great to live in.”

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Not only that, but it will mean that gasping “water, must find water”, in a Scottish desert with no signs of life except the odd cactus will make the 22nd century "so great to live in".

In the last parliament, only 30 per cent of Tory MPs believed man-made global warming was true, so they’re perfectly placed to prevent a global catastrophe, seeing as less than a third of them believe it’s happening.

If you were in a burning building, it would be so reassuring when the fire brigade arrived, if they battled through the flames and said “I can’t see a fire. That smoke’s just natural”, then went back down the ladder and left you there.

They’ve also displayed their greenness by insisting on the extra runway at Heathrow, which will make it so much easier for ministers to fly to climate change conferences.