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COP26 climate conference: Opening ceremony; SCOTLAND: Glasgow : INTBoris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) along onto stage / CUTAWAYS of Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT (for main camera from host broadcaster see R011121012) / cutaways of world leaders in audience watching including Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Greece Prime Minister) and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.- Good afternoon everybody,welcome to COP, welcome to Glasgow and to Scotland whose most globally famous fictional son is almost certainly a man called James Bondwho generally comes to the climax of his highly lucrative films strapped to a doomsday devicedesperately trying to work out which coloured wire to pull to turn it offwhile a red digital clock ticks down remorselessly to a detonation that will end human life as we know itand we are in roughly the same position, my fellow global leaders, as James Bond todayexcept that the tragedy is that this is not a movie, and the doomsday device is realand the clock is ticking to the furious rhythm of hundreds of billions of pistons and turbines and furnaces and engineswith which we are pumping carbon into the air faster and faster- record outputsand quilting the earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2raising the temperature of the planet with a speed and an abruptness that is entirely manmadeand we know what the scientists tell us and we have learned not to ignore them2 degrees more and we jeopardise the food supply for hundreds of millions of peopleas crops wither, locusts swarm3 degrees and you can add more wildfires and cyclones – twice as many of them, five times as many droughts and 36 times as many heatwaves