{"id":462145,"date":"2026-08-11T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=462145"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:19:43","slug":"claim-london-mayor-sadiq-khans-tree-planting-campaign-will-save-the-global-climate-from-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=462145","title":{"rendered":"Claim: London Mayor Sadiq Khan\u2019s Tree Planting Campaign will Save the Global Climate from President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A hilariously incoherent TDS laden communique from the Mayor of London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren\u2019t just delusional, they\u2019re deadly<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sadiq Khan<\/a>
Sat 8 Aug 2026 18.00 AEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren\u2019t a \u2018luxury\u2019, and we can\u2019t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Tuesday marking Britain\u2019s 34th day of temperatures exceeding 30C (86F) this year, the UK has also found itself reckoning with ferocious heat. Wildfires have forced evacuations in Suffolk<\/a> and the Cairngorms<\/a>. In London \u2013 where parks have become burnt, brittle and brown \u2013 hundreds of grass fires have put our firefighters under pressure like never before. In July, the weather station at Kew Gardens recorded its first ever month without rain since it started operating in 1871. As rivers run dry and reservoirs run low, farmers are warning of food shortages amid the deepening drought.<\/strong> With thousands of deaths<\/a> already estimated to be linked to the extreme heat we saw in May and June alone, it\u2019s likely this figure will climb higher still.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back now, it feels like the fierce fight over Ulez marked the beginning of something else: a new age of extreme climate scepticism. In the years since, the horrifying reality of the climate crisis has come into sharp relief \u2013 and yet somehow the clamouring voices of denial and delay have grown louder than ever. Having dismissed climate change as a \u201ccon job\u201d, Donald Trump has sought to sabotage global climate action, withdrawing the United States from the Paris agreement<\/a> for the second time, cutting support for clean energy, and boosting oil and gas production. In the UK, where cross-party consensus on the climate crisis has collapsed, his ideas have been echoed by opposition politicians and rightwing populists who veer wildly between denialism and fatalism. As some claim the climate crisis is a hoax, others insist it\u2019s too late to act<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both arguments are bogus. The climate crisis is getting worse, but in London<\/a> we\u2019ve shown that \u2013 with courage and creativity \u2013 we can prepare ourselves for its impacts. We\u2019ve planted more than 640,000 trees across the capital<\/strong>, shading our streets from the summer sun. We\u2019ve embraced rewilding while creating and improving more than 2,000 football pitches\u2019 worth of green space<\/strong>, providing natural drainage to prevent flooding. And just last month, we set out a plan to clean up our rivers and create safe swimming sites where Londoners can cool down in the heat. We have more zero-emission buses than any city in Europe and about a third of our country\u2019s electric charging points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/08\/burning-summer-climate-denial-green-policies-sadiq-khan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Lets see if I\u2019ve got this right:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Khan is claiming the drought is now so severe, Britain is on the brink of food shortages, and all the parks are either on fire or dried to a crisp, but the Mayor\u2019s plan to address this crisis is to plant hundreds of thousands of trees and create more green spaces and use the ULEZ programme to drive up costs from people who are already at risk of food insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Khan, wouldn\u2019t that be brown spaces, given this severe drought? Or is your plan to divert more water from farmers who are already running short, so your trees and green spaces survive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doesn\u2019t the climate crisis drought you allege is killing everything green mean your green space and tree planting initiatives were all a colossal waste of resources?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your plan to help poor people in London survive the food shortages you claim are imminent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are people in your mayoral office really this incompetent, or did you write this article yourself? Or was the entire article generated by an AI?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t help thinking London would right now be in a better place if some of that green cash had been spent improving London\u2019s food and water security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is something the mayor could do right now to bring immediate relief to people\u2019s suffering: suspend or cancel London\u2019s punitive ULEZ<\/a> congestion charging scheme, so commuters from outer suburbs have more cash to pay bills and buy food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mayor Khan is claiming the drought is now so severe, Britain is on the brink of food shortages, and all the parks are either on fire or dried to a crisp, but the Mayor\u2019s plan to address this crisis is to plant hundreds of thousands of trees and create more green spaces and use the ULEZ programme to drive up costs from people who are already at risk of food insecurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":462147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Mayor Khan is claiming the drought is now so severe, Britain is on the brink of food shortages, and all the parks are either on fire or dried to a crisp, but the Mayor's plan to address this crisis is to plant hundreds of thousands of trees and create more green spaces and use the ULEZ programme to drive up costs from people who are already at risk of food insecurity.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691818102,691819743,691820674,691839109,691833355,691833487,691844629],"class_list":["post-462145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-crisis","tag-climate-propaganda","tag-extreme-heat","tag-london-mayor-sadiq-khan","tag-ulez-ultra-low-emission-zone","tag-us-president-donald-j-trump","tag-weather-station-at-kew-gardens","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1WdX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":366625,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=366625","url_meta":{"origin":462145,"position":0},"title":"London\u2019s Blade Runners: Climate, Class War and the Corruption of Science","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/17\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The UK papers carried stories recently about the punishing penalties that London\u2019s drivers have paid under Mayor Sadiq Khan\u2019s Ulez (ultra-low emission zone) scheme. Under this scheme, a daily fee of \u00a312.50 is charged on older petrol and diesel cars which enter the zone. The GB News\u00a0headline\u00a0reads: \u2018Sadiq Khan\u2019s Ulez\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"anti-Ulez\"","block_context":{"text":"anti-Ulez","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=anti-ulez"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/04949907.jpg?fit=1200%2C712&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/04949907.jpg?fit=1200%2C712&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/04949907.jpg?fit=1200%2C712&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/04949907.jpg?fit=1200%2C712&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/04949907.jpg?fit=1200%2C712&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":277226,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277226","url_meta":{"origin":462145,"position":1},"title":"The Green Globalists Behind Ulez \u2013 and What They Have Planned Next","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/04\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"There\u2019s a quite a lot of heat and noise being generated at the moment about London Mayor Khan\u2019s expanded Ulez (Ultra-Low Emission Zone) which is supposed to start at the beginning of this week. But what few seem to have noticed is that Khan\u2019s Ulez is just a very small\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"C40 Cities\"","block_context":{"text":"C40 Cities","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=c40-cities"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-147.png?fit=1100%2C619&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-147.png?fit=1100%2C619&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-147.png?fit=1100%2C619&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-147.png?fit=1100%2C619&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-147.png?fit=1100%2C619&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":277051,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277051","url_meta":{"origin":462145,"position":2},"title":"Sadiq Khan\u2019s Green Globalist Gang Suggests Daily 44g Meat Allowance and Rations Lower Than Second World War","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/03\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"London Mayor Sadiq Khan\u2019s Ulez punch-down on cars and vans owned by the less affluent is just one example of the attacks planned against town dwellers living in modern industrial societies. Khan is the current chairman of\u00a0C40, a global network of city mayors backed by numerous hard-Left billionaire foundations.","rel":"","context":"In \"C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group\"","block_context":{"text":"C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=c40-cities-climate-leadership-group"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-106.png?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-106.png?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-106.png?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-106.png?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-106.png?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":270716,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=270716","url_meta":{"origin":462145,"position":3},"title":"High Court Ruling Sparks Labour Civil War as Sadiq Khan\u2019s Ulez Scheme Given Go Ahead","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/01\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Five Tory-led councils\u2019 High Court challenge against London Mayor Sadiq Khan\u2019s Ulez expansion plan has been rejected, giving the green light for the scheme\u2019s extension. The legal setback adds fuel to the already raging civil war within the Labour Party amid a pressing cost of living crisis. Motorists across Greater\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Green Agenda\"","block_context":{"text":"Green Agenda","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=green-agenda"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0-ULEZ-Khan.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0-ULEZ-Khan.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0-ULEZ-Khan.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0-ULEZ-Khan.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0-ULEZ-Khan.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":277883,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277883","url_meta":{"origin":462145,"position":4},"title":"Londoners Vs. ULEZ\u00a0Cameras","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember that the World Bank recognizes\u00a0personal mobility as the defining characteristic of the Middle Class.\u00a0 Also recall that as Aristotle stated, the\u00a0Middle Class is the social buffer against tryanny\u00a0by the elite and slavery of the poor.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0AA1g4rlD.jpeg?fit=1200%2C721&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0AA1g4rlD.jpeg?fit=1200%2C721&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0AA1g4rlD.jpeg?fit=1200%2C721&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0AA1g4rlD.jpeg?fit=1200%2C721&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0AA1g4rlD.jpeg?fit=1200%2C721&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":279306,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279306","url_meta":{"origin":462145,"position":5},"title":"Hypocrite Khan\u2019s Airmiles","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/18\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Sadiq Khan, his deputies and officials have racked up more than 430,000 air miles since he was first elected\u00a0London\u00a0Mayor in 2016, analysis shows.","rel":"","context":"In \"air miles\"","block_context":{"text":"air miles","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=air-miles"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0FotoJet__1_.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0FotoJet__1_.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0FotoJet__1_.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0FotoJet__1_.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0FotoJet__1_.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0-ChatGPT-Claim-London-Mayor-Sadiq-Khans-Tree-Planting-Campaign-will-Save-the-Global-Climate-from-President-Trump.png?fit=1536%2C1024&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462145"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462154,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462145\/revisions\/462154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/462147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}