It will be remembered as the day the greens bombed Copenhagen with limousines.
Picture updated at 12:30PM – Anthony
From the Telegraph, the tale of elitist excess begins:
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. “We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” she says. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”
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.”
But wait, there’s more!
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.
Reads the entire story here:
Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges
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And the Met Office’s representative is still telling us that the Arctic ice is still melting.
She must have missed the Met Office report about the big melt 2 years ago being misreported as an effect of temperature and actually being attributed to wind.
She can’t have checked the fact that the last 2 years have seen a recovery of ice levels.
Or perhaps she is basing her calculations on the cunning plan to redefine sea ice a 30/70% ice/water as opposed to the 15/85% traditionally used, thereby reducing ice extent massively at a stroke.
It is good to know that you can rely on professionals for the reality of climate change.
Nigel S: that’s a lovely painting. And limited edition, too! A bargain at half the price if there ever was one.
NASA’s James Hansen was just interviewed on Australia’s Lateline program. The transcript will be available tomorrow. He basically downplayed the whole Climategate scandal when asked about it, saying that the data has always been available, and that if there was anything wrong with it, it would have been pointed out ages ago. Of course he conveniently failed to mention Steve McIntyre doing precisely that regarding the Hockey Stick. And he failed to mention that it is the methods used that are the chief concern. The only criticism he gave was when some scientists didn’t release the data (i.e. Phil Jones et al), but clearly this fact alone doesn’t pose any suspicions at all for Hansen.
Hansen then went on about “tipping points” and how the 400 ppm CO2 level is getting up into “dangerous territory”. When asked about feedback loops, he gave a very poor answer, citing an example of an Antarctic ice-sheet breaking up irreversibly and also citing an example involving methane.
He talked also about the accuracy of certain weather stations. He said that in all their analyses, they only use rural weather stations, screening out urban ones due to the heat island effect. I wonder if anyone here can confirm the accuracy of this statement?
A lot more was discussed, but like I said, the transcript won’t be available until tomorrow.
> Charles. U. Farley (03:35:10) :
Hey Chuck, I don’t know about others, but when I scan comments, the poster’s name is an important determinant for the quality of the comment. You might want to find another alias – whenever I see your current one I just skip to the next comment.
Since almost the entire agw-tribe has gathered in one place, perhaps they will chock the world and commit collective suicide, sacrifice them selves to save the world?!
Baby you can drive my car:
The Guardian have no sense of proportion now censoring out all dissent?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/dec/02/reader-leaders-copenhagen?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments
My censored post below:
“I see Comment is free if you agree is still holding up on the censorship front.
You seem to be censoring everyone out.
Well done boys. You can run but you can’t hide the trick or the decline.
Climategate 30 plus million hits.
Hey maybe you should have a theme tune for Copenhagen.
“Baby you can drive my car”
As I have said before there is only one thing worse than a hypocrite and thats a sanctimonious hypocrite?
Climate map shows world after 4C rise in temperature
“A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other leading impact scientists. It shows that the land will heat up more quickly than the sea, and high latitudes, particularly the Arctic, will have larger temperature increases.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2009/oct/22/climate-change-carbon-emissions
The latest peer reviewed science?
You couldn’t make this up, they could?
Another thing I forgot to add is that James Hansen also denied any cooling at all over the last ten years. He argued that it all depended on the “smoothing” that was used, and that 2005 was the hottest year on record. Overall he said that it had actually warmed during the last ten years.
No need – just substitute carbon certificate for “leaf” and you have the plan.
Sean Peake (05:20:40)
Thanks, a good cause too!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8278973.stm
This is supposed to be a Q&A on Copenhagen. On the second screen down you will see there is a hockey-stick graph with no label on it to say what it is, but obviously intended to show the ‘proof’ of the complete nonesense they are all spouting. I saw another piece on the BBC over the weekend where they ‘debunked’ some sceptic points, one of their ‘debunkings’ said that it was incontrovertibly true that the earth was hotter now that at any time in the past several thousand years. So it looks like the poor old MWP has gone again!
Ed Miliband [Environment Sec in UK] just had 40 minutes of sceptics asking questions.
The view of callers was ‘its the Sun’, ‘why if its so important are we building another runway at Heathrow’, ‘what about the damage biofuels are reaking’, ‘what proportion of the CO2 is down to humans rather than the rest of the planet’… I asked about the MWP, but it was ignored 🙁
The presenter [the excellent Simon Mayo] said that there was an overwhelming view from the texts/emails/calls that people were sceptical.
There were no supportive callers or messages read out. As this is the BBC, you can be sure that if they could find a positive, they’d have given it airtime.
Very interesting.
Comin’ In On A Wing And A Pray’r
Tho’ there’s one motor gone, we can still car-ry on …
Seems more and more like religion every day. Now they even have pilgrimages.
Too bad Chaucer is long since dead, or the world could get a great poem out of this.
Stacey (05:45:17) :
“A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other leading impact scientists.
Am I correct in interpreting this statement as indicating a scientific map has been developed directing certain scientists the appropriate place to jump in front of limos? Can I suggest a few I would like to see make the first impact?
Those in Copenhagen might could use this link, I hope they are not part of a new sabotage of the world.
http://www.ccdemo.info/PearlHarbor/PearlHarborDayRemembered.html
The Guardian has penned an editorial on Copenhagen printed by 56 papers around the world. Predictable, of course, but worth debunking, which I have done here:
http://peacelegacy.org/articles/answer-fourteen-days-seal-historys-judgment
From my conclusion:
There is one thing that history has certainly taught us: that the human race has the capacity to be deluded in mass by an obviously false, scary idea. We ridicule early Salem for the witch trials; we are horrified by bloody queen Mary burning heretics, we are mystified by the sudden viciousness of the French reign of terror or the Nazi idea that all the world’s troubles were caused by one single race. All of these ideas were false and the evidence that disproved them was staring everyone in the face, yet millions went along with them. What about our own mass delusion?
Dear All,
Please check out live from Copenhagen:
Delegates are outraged. Not only are they in a souless conference centre miles from anywhere on the borders of Denmark and Sweden, not only were hundreds kept waiting in the rain on the first day because of a bomb scare but there is no goodie bag.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6728106/Copenhagen-climate-summit-live.html
They can all buy Carbon Credits from themselves, or Al Gore or Enron or something. Or they can just reduce our carbon ration to make up the difference.
Let me start a no-vote list. These are people who go to the convention for the purpose of supporting CO2 nonsense. If they go, they lose the people’s vote for the rest of their lives. Note: I voted for Obama the last time. And I do mean “last”.
#1. Obama
Do you think that these guys use to eat caviar and drive limousines in their commoner´s life?. No, for sure.
Evidently their masters know their weaknesses, their self indulging egos, their meaningless lives, so they give them all that in change of total servitude. Don´t you think so?.
Their masters and patrons would not ask for real scientists and noble politicians to do it because they would not accept their gifts to betray their principles and souls.
Today the NY Times has an article about Copenhagen, barely mentioning sceptics, but at least mentioning them, before going on in a science-is-settled manner.
Of course it has the hockey stick graph as an illustration……(groan)….
People just don’t seem to understand that the greens are more equal than the other barn animals.
You are a huge chunk of rock. An asteroid – and you’ve been boldly trekking through fathomless space for millenia.
Endlessly fatigued you may be. But your mission is nearly over. The climax will be shattering – literally.
So do you plummet into the ocean, kill a few fish but make a big splash?
Do you plunge into the endless Nordic forests and flatten an elk?
But wait a moment – there’s Copenhagen!
Go on! You gotta admit it. You’d be tempted, wouldn’t you?
too bad al gore can’t go ;]]
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