Petards all around

When this little journalistic stunt was cooked up weeks ago, it probably seemed like such a great idea .... at the time:

Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.

Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world's response has been feeble and half-hearted.

At some point even those bansheeing this this type of thing will notice the screaming satire they are purveying. Then again, we are aware of how blind people can become when their religious faith is under attack.