Sunday 6 December 2009

Copenhagen - Climate change summit.

From the Telegraph's Andrew Gilligan:

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

As well 15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists and 98 world leaders, the Danish capital will be blessed by the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Helena Christensen, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prince Charles. A Republican US senator, Jim Inhofe, is jetting in at the head of an anti-climate-change "Truth Squad." The top hotels – all fully booked at £650 a night – are readying their Climate Convention menus of (no doubt sustainable) scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges.

According to the organisers, the eleven-day conference, including the participants' travel, will create a total of 41,000 tonnes of "carbon dioxide equivalent", equal to the amount produced over the same period by a city the size of Middlesbrough.

Full story HERE.

The General consensus seems to be that no deal will be made, and if by some slim chance a watered down agreement can be found, none of the major countries attending will feel any real obligation to make good on their promises (like Kyoto). It is in fact one massive waste of bloody fuel, time and taxpayers money. But who can really blame them? They've got to show willing even though a growing number of their voters don't believe that man has any influence on the climate. And now that we have discovered that the data has been fudged/destroyed/hidden/manipulated - then things can only get worse for the anti-CO2 religion.

How much money will they spend on talking about climate change whilst people are starving and dying from disease and war right now?

3 comments:

Quiet_Man said...

It's a total scam Steve, the excess winter death rate in the UK was 25,300, this is caused by high energy prices caused by the governments green levy. £400 of every yearly bill in green taxation, the EU intends to see it rise too £800 by 2020 at least. These people are trying to convince us of AGW and taxing us into penury to do it. People are dying in the UK because of this scam!

cstirk19 said...

maybe you guys should shut up. u have no idea at all about anything and you are clearly poor lower class idiots. Non-renewable energy sources are going to run out in under 30 years anyway so renewable energy will have to be used... but clearly you guys are too thick to think of that. reading your silly news papers such as the sun that print rubbish!

get a life and stop trying to publish rubbish. the majority of the people in the UK and the world believe that climate change is a huge problem. We live in a democracy. democracy rule. you lose. bye bye.

Anonymous said...

People are already dying in their millions, because of the fertile farmland being given over to the production of bio-fuels... a direct consequence of this scam.

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