In July United Nations General Secretary Antonio Guterres declared that : "The era of global boiling has arrived", a meme echoing this exchange between a French oceanographer and a submarine captain:
"How hot are these waters over Atlantis Captain Nemo?
"Too hot for divers - 211 degrees Fahrenheit. Close to the boiling point of water !"
While underwater volcanoes to the climate denial playbook may be traced to the 1999 remake of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea UN speechwriters may instead have plagiarized borrowed the 150-year old trope the General Secretary used from Lewis Carrol, for as can be heard below, the Walrus in Through The Looking Glass asks:
"Why the sea is boiling hot, or whether pigs have wings."
