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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From Wiki:
“Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that one does not actually have. Hypocrisy is thus a kind of lie. Hypocrisy may come from a desire to hide from others actual motives or feelings.
Hypocrisy is not simply an inconsistency between what is advocated and what is done. Samuel Johnson made this point when he wrote about the misuse of the charge of “hypocrisy” in Rambler No. 14:
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions, without having yet obtained the victory, as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage, or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others, those attempts which he neglects himself.[1]”
Many of the Hokumhagen participants are simply delusional zealots, and probably suffering from cognitive dissonance big-time. They rationalize their use of planes, limos, etc. by saying “I am doing this for the good of the planet”. Further, they have the bandwagon effect (we are all in this together, and are simply doing our good deed for the planet), and the self-reinforcing groupthink.
Brilliant. I missed the show but will listen to it later on iPlayer. Without Global Warming, there’d be no “Minister for Climate Change”. What we need is a Minister for Natural Variation to balance things out a little in cabinet.
To Copenhagen they went,
In their limos and jets they were sent,
For free lunches and sex,
On a fat false pretext,
But the science its based on is bent.
((C)openhagen (O)ligarchy)2
You are forgetting all the extra CO2 that will be exhaled by the huffing and puffing by the delegates taking advantage of the freebie offer of the local ladies/gentlemen.
I am not surprised,the big surprise would have been if they had cut back on such decadence.
This is Copenhagen’s official video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGGgncVq-4
These people are not right in the head. Seriously.
@davidgmills Actually, I was thinking it would be a golden opportunity for some modern day Erasmus to write “Gore Exclusis”. [For those who miss the point, Erasmus wrote a satire about Pope Julius showing up and trying to get into heaven.]
The headline is classic.
If we appeal to an astrological explanation we could say that the change of the world which began with the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 will finish with the next end of the current saturn/uranus opposition in may 2010, where all this naive conspiracy will have a sudden and glorious “finale”.
Suddenly everybody will be able to see them as they are: naked and their real nature exposed.
Please remember this prognosis.
Bulaman (01:12:26) :
Plus others?
Cops-enhagen: to enforce the police state
Toke-enhagen: dope for the dopes
Coke-enhagen: snow in Denmark
Rope-enhagen: to hang the world economy
Poke-enhagen:
Croak-enhagen:
Blokes-enhagen
This is too easy; I quit after this:
Hoax-enhagen
Major winter storm to wallop central U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/12/07/winter.storm/index.html
and now it begins…
Hypocrisy in the AGW camp was alive and well, well before Copenhagen. Al Gore has a $36,000 utility bill and he says it his right to live an excessive lifestyle. Great, but why are you telling us we have to change and potentially lose our oil industry jobs?
Movie stars and politicians like to talk change, their non-change speaks volumes about heir actual attitudes.
I wonder how this cartoon made it past the AGW censors at the Times/London:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00656/Pugh_656419a.jpg
From today’s online New York Times:
“Roger A. Pielke Sr., for example, a climate scientist at the University of Colorado who has been highly critical of the United Nations climate panel and who once branded many of the scientists now embroiled in the e-mail controversy part of a climate “oligarchy,” said that so many independent measures existed to show unusual human-influenced warming taking place that there was no real dispute about it. “The role of added carbon dioxide as a major contributor in climate change has been firmly established,” he said.”
Say it ain’t so!
Charles the Moderator:-)
I wish I had written that little piece you rightly snipped about one being professional, & proud, & certain people retiring to their “study” to do the honourable thing now, instead of a couple of months ago! It was perhaps a little inappropriate then, I think it might not have been snipped this time now those wretched emails have surfaced:-)) I suspect there may literally be some service revolvers being sought by one or two people right now.
The distorted global-warming debate
http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/06/frum.global.warming/index.html
Apparently the ARGO sea temperature probes have not reported any warming in the world’s oceans. I read somewhere that NOAA are no longer using the ARGO data in their sea surface temperature records because of the ARGO ‘denial’ of warming.
Not too coincidentally, not one of the ARGO probes has recorded the holocaust either. Not a one. So there you go. Proof that warming denial is linked and proof of holocaust denial!
Sorry people, I have been reading WAY too much mainstream media and started thinking like them for a second there!
140 jets flying in, then flying out to other countries to park up?
And when do they want us to start taking them seriously?
As a highly irresponsible flat-earther according to Milliband and Brown, I hope the arrogant do as I say, not do as I do merchants all choke on their caviar
Me thinks the gentleman doth protest too much
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-osborne/climategate-and-the-life_b_380542.html
“Nontroversy feeds on empty, twisted brains. In this case, a general unfamiliarity with the language of scientific banter allows the “climategate” nontroversy to overwhelm the consensus on global warming. That consensus is built on literally hundreds of thousands of studies at this point; and indeed, the stolen emails contain a wealth of proof that temperatures are rising. Yet the media stovepipe magnifies, even invents, discrepancies and minimizes evidence, even as the ice melts…”
George Orwell never imagined this. Dupenhagen 2009 gets underway.
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/12/07/dupenhagen-aka-copenhagen-2009-conference-begins-with-fear-mongering-propaganda
vulgarmorality (04:29:53) :
Makes perfect sense to me. They are the good shepherds, who deserve the best. We are the dim, unruly flock, who need to be restrained. No hypocrisy, just different classes of people.
See “Climategate: The good shepherds”:
http://vulgarmorality.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/climategate-the-good-shepherds/
The above is my favorite article ever on this whole business, which deserves a thread of its own because of its importance in derailing the blame-the-left meme here that Pam and others like savethesharks have objected to.
The blame falls on “the anointed” — the self-consciously “aware and concerned,” highly educated cognitive elite who resonate with one another across all sectors of society and buy into one another’s rationales, tactics, credibility, and value-priorities.
One of their main concerns is to avoid being consigned by their fellows in this group into the ranks of the “benighted” (the crudely selfish and ignorant), which is why accusations of being tainted by Big Oil or right-wing think tanks or Fox News or IDers or flat-earthers make such powerful and commonly used weapons by the groups’ mind-guards in keeping the rank and file in line.
IOW, in large part their motivations are partly idealistic, but also partly social and psychological, in that they want to be part of the leading edge of a high-status in-group, and also want to nourish and bask in the feeling of self-approbation that this reflected self-worth, and this perception of acting idealistically, gives them.
Hypocrisy:
Holding others to a standard which one refuses to hold himself.
I still say that it’s not just a failure of science (though many supposed scientists have failed). Anytime someone is interviewed and claims that local climatic conditions demonstrate AGW (without the reporter querying the logic), anytime someone claims that if 90% of nutritionists said your dinner was unsafe you wouldn’t eat it and therefore we must do all we can to save the planet, and anytime that someone claims that there is a consensus that CO2 emissions cause global warming, therefore governments must invest in ‘green’ technologies, we encounter a failure of thinking.
Thinking, for the most part, is not taught in schools; and, considering all the bleating about UN conventions we hear these days, I call people’s attention to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which, as I understand it, actually has the force of law in many countries:
[I apologise for the extensive quotation; please bear with me. Emphasis is mine.]
I submit that, throughout the developed world, millions of children are being robbed of their cultural patrimony by not being taught their own literature and history, and by not being taught how to use their minds to the fullest extent. There are grounds, I reckon, for taking legal actions against national governments for breaching this convention.
patrick healy,
and i thought i had read all Hans Christian Andersens fairy tales.
I still think old Sharespeare got it right in Hamlet – about something rotten in the state of Denmark.
more on the side of sanity, my local paper in Dundee (Scotland – for readers across the pond) was kind enough to print my letter this morning 7th Dec.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk (click on letters)
At least not all of the MSM has succumbed to the MMGW tax scam.
To their credit, the Courier is prepared to entertain debate on this vitally important subject.