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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It is interesting that, when I tried to leave a Comment at the Telegraph it would not work.?
According to reports in the Daily Mail, (I think it was) the delegates will have released as much CO2 as a small African Nation.
Not sure just how good an analogy this but anyway, it sounds damning.
Peter Plail: You could tell from her body language that the Met Office woman was telling porkies. (Pork pies = lies, for non-cockneys)
” Vincent (02:30:53) :
Here is a news story lying on the floor and just begging to be picked up my the worlds media. In any other context we would not have to be blogging about this on the internet.
Had this been a convention of international bankers, arriving in fleets of private jets, driving in fleets of stretched hummer limo’s, and dinning on dolphin tongues at the most prestigious hotels on taxpayers money, then you betcha, this would have been covered.”
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But, Vincent. The world’s media do ignore that event. It is called Bilderberg and the owners of the world’s mainstream media are attendees. It is still not allowed to be reported in any serious way.
The entire story in perspective:
Lord Monckton interview with Russia Today:
vulgarmorality (04:29:53)
Interesting essay. The Warmists are not conspirators but philosopher-kings, you say—in their own minds, of course. Typical of the mindset of all elites, of course. They always know what’s best for the rest of us. How impertinent of us to question them!
Notice that there a proposals afoot in the Obambi administration for reigning in the wild-and-wooly Internet. The Congress is sympathetic, so watch out! After all, they can’t have folks like Anthony Watts (or ‘vulgarmorality’) stirring up the hoi-poloi.
/Mr Lynn
Correction: . . .there ARE proposals afoot. . .
(Isn’t it time for The Best Science Blog to get some Preview and Formatting tools for the Comments?)
/Mr Lynn
The cuckoos nest visits Copenhagen
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/the_cuckoos_nest_visits_copenh_1.html
Did we really expect anything better from them? Let’s just sit back and eat our global warming hot apple pies before we all drown in a warm sea of trash. http://apocalypsecakes.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/global-warming-hot-apple-pie/
Limos
1,000 diollar whores
200 dollar bottles of wine
Expense accounts.
I suspect the hookers would flock toward a warming sheik driving Toyota Pious.
Joe Romm is taking cameras. I suspect the porn shots are going to be posted on youtube.
A lot of the wastefull spending will be done by cheats that may be investigated and fired next year. why not live high on the hog when expenses get covered??
What’s the difference between a Copenhagen prostitute and an attendee to COP15?
While both will screw you the Copenhagen prostitutes are willing to screw you for free.
The AP media blitz has started. Top stories on Yahoo this a.m. were the 2000s are the hottest decade ever, more Arctic ice melted in the last 3 summers than any 3 summers in history, and Thailand’s coast is disappearing under water.
Hey any Euros on the list! get a picture of the ramp at Copenhagen Airport-especially
the executive ramp.Might be edifying to us proles….
Ah but I have realised why these delegates need stretch hummers. They need a very strong limo for their prostitutes to protect them from all the polar bears falling out of the sky. What was it? One for every flight? That means at least 140 polar bears dropping on Copenhagen this next two weeks. That is 10 a day!
The union of concerned carbon yeti like to party in style. Think of the footprints. Lots to study there.
Climate of Uncertainty Heats Up
Bloggers peer review a scientific ‘consensus.’
By L. GORDON CROVITZ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342404574578012533089846.html#printMode
In addition to blogs, skeptics of global warming have used “crowdsourcing” to improve on the science supposedly done by professionals. Anthony Watts is a meteorologist who was surprised by how local conditions affect the reliability of the 1,200 U.S. weather stations. Along with more than 600 volunteers, he found that almost all the stations violate the government’s standards by being too close to heating vents or surrounded by asphalt.
Might the Empire of Japan bomb Briber’s Harbor in a dastardly sneak attack today?
This is one for the guys mmmmmm or maybe some girls.
Good girls though, bought all their clothes from the Oxfam Shop.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ceriradford/100019114/copenhagen-supermodels-take-it-off-for-climate-change-restore-ice-caps-through-power-of-striptease/comment-page-1/#comment-100099992
NASA-GATE
What’s become known as “Climategate” may be about to explode on this side of the pond as well.
Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has threatened a lawsuit against NASA if by year-end the agency doesn’t honor his Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for information on how and why its climate numbers have been consistently adjusted for errors.
“I assume that what is there is highly damaging,” says Horner, who suspects, based on the public record, the same type of data fudging, manipulation and suppression that has occurred at Britain’s East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU). “These guys (NASA) are quite clearly determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this.”
They may have good reason, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD):
NASA was caught with its thermometers down when James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, announced that 1998 was the country’s hottest year on record, with 2006 the third hottest.
NASA and Goddard were forced to correct the record in 2007 to show that 1934, decades before the advent of the SUV, was in fact the warmest; in fact, the new numbers showed that four of the country’s 10 warmest years were in the 1930s.
Hansen, who began the climate scare some two decades ago, was caught fudging the numbers again in declaring October 2008 the warmest on record.
This despite the fact that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.
Scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on that October’s readings at all; figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
Was Hansen, like his CRU counterpart Michael Mann, trying to “hide the decline” in temperatures, asks IBD?
Hansen has said in the past that “heads of major fossil-fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.” What penalties would he recommend for himself and his CRU colleagues, asks IBD?
Source: Editorial, “NASA-Gate,” Investor’s Business Daily, December 7, 2009.
For text:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=514429
For more on Global Warming:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=32
Benjamin (04:26:03) :
‘Couldn’t agree more. I don’t know why people are saying that the treaty is dead in the water. Those might be famous last words. Me? I’ll call it dead when it’s over and I’ve no worries of paying more for my god-given right to emit carbon. It ain’t over til it’s over…’
This will not be over until we march on Washington demanding CO2 be classified a non pollutant.
Set my Co2 free.
Greenpeace advert campaign – low, really low
http://www.berlingske.dk/billeder/verdens-statsledere-siger-undskyld-paa-greenpeace-plakater
Now now,, let’s not let envy spoil your day.
Watch them arrive on live web cam.
http://www.abirdseyeviewof.com/Denmark.html
Airport
http://www.cph.dk/CPH/UK/MAIN/Virtual+Airport/Web+cameras/
A similar story could apply to the thousands of earth scientists who will be flying into San Francisco from all over the world next week for the annual AGU meeting. Some intrepid reporter might wonder why the AGU isn’t holding this conference electronically as an effort in climate change leadership. And how so many of these individuals rationalize a continual schedule of junket science in light of the ‘consensus’ on the damaging effects. Climate scientists, politicians, and Al Gore would probably argue that their face to face hobnobbing is too important. But when the ‘leaders’ routinely opt to exempt themselves from the restrictions they prescribe for others, carbon emissions start to look less like a moral concern, and more like Soviet-style party privelege.
They don’t have the courage of their convictions. Oh no, they don’t want to dismantle industrial society, they just want people to pay carbon credits to the gatekeepers (Al Gore, George Soros) for the privilege of living in it.
On a serious note – journalists appear to be picking up the occasional story line from blogs such as this – but they are missing the enormity of what bloggers have already spotted as strange/dubious/appalling.
Perhaps a thread titled ‘For Journalists’ would be useful – we could distill some of the findings we’ve spotted so far into media friendly language.
I’m a PR person by background and we’re not filling the media vacuum – after the initial WOW [snip] phase that caught attention, we’re not feeding the beast – unless we do, they’ll get bored and stick to the AGW diet churned out by the IPCC press office.
Attractive cut-and-paste stories are hard to resist for non-specialist reporters.