December 04, 2007

Not Enough Parking for Private Jets Going to UN Climate Conference As climate alarmists from all over the world head to Bali to talk about the sacrifices regular folks have to make to save the planet from global warming, it seems certain media will ignore all the private jets clogging the tiny airport.

Bonus link: Map showing which countries have ratified the Kyoto Agreement.

posted by xenmate 16 years ago
  • Yes, well, about Canada's "ratification"... Well, we've got these tar sands, see, and there's big money in these tar sands, and the government is dependent on that tar sands money, so why don't you guys go on ahead, and we'll catch up with you later?
  • How about a map showing countries living up to their Kyoto committments? It's easy to ratify something. I ratified twelve agreements before breakfast.
  • Obviously the world leaders should be jetpooling.
  • This "news," it's evidence of what -- hypocrisy? Hogwash. This is the kind of sophistry that political hacks use all the time. What are the participants supposed to do, row to Bali in outrigger canoes? The carbon footprint caused by their plane flights is a pinprick compared to the amount they could lessen global carbon output by their work on Bali. No matter what this ideologue claims.
  • I ratified twelve agreements before breakfast. Beware carpal tunnel. This is why I always sign my name "X".
  • btw xenmate, I really like your blog.
  • But again, to the FPP: "alarmists"?? You mean, like all those CLIMATE SCIENTISTS who agree that global warming is not only happening but is made worse by human carbon production? It's pathetic that so many are getting their "truth" about this issue from biased talking heads rather than people who really understand the science of what's happening to the climate. Talking heads like this guy, who's a businessman and economist, not a climate scientist.
  • What if we held a climate change summit and nobody came? Fer Fuck's Sake!!!! Are they all supposed to fly EasyJet? Wankery, of the highest order. I'm with HW on this one. Plus he's got tight buns.
  • Stop and think about it folks, these guys don't travel alone. We're talking about a retinue of between a 300-1000 person accompaniment. Depends on whether or not they can get along without their barber.
  • "Noel Sheppard is an economist (he has an Econ degree but can't get a job with it), business owner (he sells Ann Coulter tshirts thru CafePress), and Associate Editor of NewsBusters (everybody who ever contributed to NewsBusters is an 'Associate Editor'; the site has no real editors and no fact checkers - hint hint)." Next time, use The Colbert Report as a source, it's much funnier. It's a good thing the US of A isn't supporting that kind of thing, because President Bush's travel entourage would overwhelm the Bali Airport all by itself. I am in full agreement with the position that NO inter-governmental conference should be held at a place than be impartially called a "resort". (Noting that many places that call themselves "resorts" are more like "last resorts"). And it is a total waste of energy and other resources for the conference to be held at a place where the airport cannot handle the air traffic (and if you look at this picture, it appears that the conference would be too large to be accommodated by Bali's regular scheduled commercial air traffic plus 15 charter planes if they were all 'planepools'). Indonesia has better places they could have held this conference, but they screwed up trying to look good, and, yes, I'm sure way too many attendees thought "oh boy, we're going to Bali!" for anybody's objections to be heard. Now, please rest assured, xenmate, that the United Nations is not going to force you to give up your 9 mpg SUV before you go bankrupt paying for the gasoline for it, and the Oil Companies will make sure that the money you give them will only go to scientists working on ways to deny Global Climate Change. And this post, while a funny picture, has a sadly inaccurate caption (and I know it's not originally yours). How is this "forcing people" to do anything? It's more like false (and cheap) security... "Did you secure that driveway on the east side?" "Yeah, we put a gate on it." "Good, our ass is covered."
  • That website I linked to in my own FPP has an article about offsetting air travel emissions by buying a TerraPass, and talks a bit about the level of emissions put out by flying.
  • Why can't they videoconference?
  • Because you can't drink the fruity drinks with the umbrellas and get a tan that way.
  • Lara, you're spot on. If anything needed super-posh videoconferencing (with nice desks and the latest systems, with trained operators and shared whiteboards or whatever, which actually work instead of the crap we put up with in our office) it was a climate conference.