The climate warming crowd is facing obstacle after obstacle – a growing polling consensus that the science is more about political profligacy than the environment, not to mention that elephant-sized stack of e-mails hunkering down the backs of anyone in the movement.
Copenhagen is a potential game-changer, pumping up feel-good liberal empathy and good p.r. while simultaneously firing up potential economy-shattering legislation back home – all set with Obama coming in late like Willis Reed for that John Elway-like drive. Given the current “climate” politically, not to mention the stakes (when has America ever more ripe for the Kyoto bandwagon?), we can always count on the change crowd itself to exert its true disbelief in its own bullshit through its collection of Hertz receipts and airline tickets. Before bankrupting us, can you at least pretend better?
Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen. “The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don’t have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it’s very Danish.”
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.
The Telegraph left this tasty nugget in its deck headline.
Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.
No, Godzilla wasn’t here suckers, that’s the carbon footprint of hope and change.
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The Climate Express
WHy do I get the imression that this is Mardi Gras/Carnival for Dirt Worshippers and various other gov’t leeches?
if it’s not Copenhagen that screws us the EPA will be right there to do the damage for the Cult of Gaia.
I believe that by changing his Copenhagen cameo from the beginning to the end of the summit, Obama will have to make a separate trip to pick up his Nobel Prize for Good Intentions, doubling his carbon footprint.
Is that what they call a sin of emission?
That’s all I got.