Hot Air Conference!

Today I want to discuss the apex of hypocrisy, the climate change summit in Copenhagen. This report was brought to my attention by one of my watchdogs and I thought I'd share parts of this article in the UK Telegraph. Here's some of the highlights.....

On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.

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

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

It seems Al Gore isn't the only one with questionable carbon usage habits! The article goes on to say....

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.

The temptation, then, is to dismiss the whole thing as a ridiculous circus. Many of the participants do not really need to be here. And far from "saving the world," the world's leaders have already agreed that this conference will not produce any kind of binding deal, merely an interim statement of intent

They end it by saying.....

The hot air this week will be massive, the whole proceedings eminently mockable, but it would be far too early to write off this conference as a failure.

You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried! It's like watching an actress do a photo shoot for PITA in a mink stole. If your going to support a cause, act committed, not as if you need to be committed. Global climate change enthusiasts wonder why the rest of the world won't get on board? Here's a thought, quit lying, skewing the facts, and being the biggest offenders of carbon output. Then maybe someone will take you seriously! Right now this is just exposing itself for what it is, faux concern applied to create a new industry that regulates and overtaxes the people, with absolutely no concern for reducing carbon output.

God Bless
Capt. Bill