I try to remind people that the U.N. has not succeeded at much of anything during its history. Mostly it just makes pronouncements and consumes cash. When it comes to doing any real work, they fall down on the job, because most of the people that make up the U.N. have never had to do any real work themselves.
So I hope this lesson on the U.N. to Seth Borenstein sinks in. He’ll hardly forget his day in the cold I’m sure.
Temperature and Weather on Dec14th in Copenhagen: Hi 33 °F Lo 31 °F Humidity average 89%, winds averaged 6 mph for a wind chill of 26°F. Overcast.
From the Climate Pool:
“You have no idea how important water and a bathroom is until you don’t have it,” he said after waiting 7 hours and 20 minutes to enter the Copenhagen climate talks.
With U.N. security letting in only those cleared last week, hundreds of accredited delegates, journalists and NGO representatives were left to stand for hours in near-freezing temperatures before being let through. “It was crazy,” AP’s Seth Borenstein said. “You couldn’t leave the line. You couldn’t go to the bathroom, you couldn’t eat. Then snowflakes started falling. One woman even said, ‘if lightning strikes me, would they take me out of line?'”
People started handing out food — one gave out tangerines, another croissants. A man screamed “I don’t need food. I need socks! I’m freezing my ass off out here.” At one point, a U.N. official announced the wait would be longer, prompting the crowd to boo and chant “Let Us In!”
An Indian TV crew member interviewing actor Rahul Bose quipped “we’ll just do our interviews out here!” to which Bose mused “when bad things happen in a first-world country, it’s really a disaster!”
Seth himself stepped into the line at 7:55 a.m. and was through at 3:15 p.m., but only after another AP reporter, John Heilprin, “saved my bacon” by persuading a U.N. security guard to go out and fetch him. “John was afraid to go out himself in case they wouldn’t let him back in … the first thing I did when I saw him was give him a big hug. I have never been so grateful to be indoors.” Seth’s neighbors in line? “Oh they’re still out there.”
And it looks like they might stay there. With 40,000 people registered and Bella Center’s capacity only 15,000, the U.N. introduced a new quota system and ordered NGOs to cut down their numbers. Police shut down the Bella Center’s subway stop in a bid to ease the congestion. The situation can only get worse as more than 100 heads of state and government, including President Obama, show up this week with their entourages.
Many among the 3,500 accredited journalists worry they may be “locked down” in the press area and kept away from the conference center’s central atrium where delegates, presidents and premiers would circulate.
UPDATE: At 5 p.m., U.N. officials told everyone still in line that accreditation would close at 6 p.m. and so they should leave until Tuesday morning. Police started pulling people out of the crowd, which shouted back “Shame on the U.N.!” The U.N. then apologized for the inconvenience — a gesture met with more booing and chanting.
Katy Daigle is based in London and covers international news for the AP
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And they want the U.N. to run our global carbon system and handle all the money? Hell they can’t even handle the press line.
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Zimbabwe is the best example for those CO15 maniacs.
They have effectively reduced CO2 emissions!
Please check it out at http://rainforests.mongabay.com/carbon-emissions/zimbabwe.html
UN: Please adopt Mugabe as a case-study!
Ecotretas
If this is how the UN runs a conference, imagine how they’d run the World!
Even the MSM seems to be taking this Copenhagen farce less seriously. It does seem like the average person is ” getting wise” to this non-governing body of do-nothings.
Al Gore’s arrival, as reported in the Daily Telegraph, UK:-
“The Prince, who flew in by private jet, joined Arnold Schwarzenegger the Governor of California and Al Gore, the former US Senator, who also flew in to add impetus to the talks.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6819392/Copenhagen-climate-summit-Prince-Charles-warns-climate-change-will-drive-starvation-and-terrorism.html
“You have no idea how important water and a bathroom is until you don’t have it,” he said
Not to mention Warmth.
Brings questions to mind,
who chose the site
who coordinated the event
who allowed 40K people to register
…and who wants to save the world from the bugger man?
Obviously they missed an opportunity to do some “cap and trade” on queue. Get some developing nations types to stand in line for you for a fee.
You guys have to understand that this was done on the cheap, only 300 million or so. Once the UN gets fully funded for this, starting with tens of billions per year and gaining from there all of this sort of thing will stop happening.
And I though that all Pro-Global-Warming-Brownshirt-Activist-Journalists had a special preferential treatment pass to the UN… silly me!!!
A note: Since WUWT has an International Status now, it would be great to also use International Units… it would avoid using unit converters.
The very thought of all those poor people, standing for hours in the bitter cold, unable even to go to the toilet, when all they wanted was to be inside in the warm, blathering about combating Global Warming.
It’s enough to make a pig laugh.
Starting with the Briffa fiasco a few weeks ago, this is really the gift that keeps on giving and giving!
Thank you Anthony, Steve McIntyre, and all of the others who have made this human epoch so deliciously entertaining.
Merry Christmas, all!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
They could not have done this any better than an old silent cop movie! Laughing my ass off having another cold one with fried trout!
“I don’t need food. I need socks! I’m freezing my ass off out here.”
Freezing at the warming summit, go figure
Ecotretas (15:00:22) :
Yeah, I’m sure all the dictators in those poor countries will use the Climate Change funds to reduce their carbon footprint… is gun powder fossil or renewable?
(Gunpowder is mainly sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate)
“I don’t need food. I need socks! I’m freezing my ass off out here.”
Of course you are. Al Gore is there.
This story belongs in ‘Gore Effect’ at Wiki.
There your have it:” With 40,000 people registered and Bella Center’s capacity only 15,000, the U.N. introduced a new quota system and ordered NGOs to cut down their numbers “.
Welcome to the future of U. N. controlled carbon rationing. What ever amount of carbon needed to maintain your lifestyle, only one third will be given out.
Poetic justice.
On a different subject;
In my scan today of the Green Tab subjects over at the Huffington Post, The number of comments on most of their articles are only in the single and double digits. Comments on those subjects usually number in the hundreds every day. This is not anecdotal evidence, something amazing is happening. This is real.
The difference between the Mafia and the UN? The Mafia’s efficient and has a sense of its own brand of ethics.
This story belongs in ‘Gore Effect’ at Wiki
But apparently nothing is blamed on him anymore. It’s all on the scientists he listened to now. My faux pas.
sarc off/
We know they’re incompetent fools. Now the reporters know too. But will they tell their readers or will they just keep taking the money?
Temperature forecast for Hopenhagen (high / low) :
Wed 16 December 2° C / -4° C Snow
Thu 17 December -1° C / -3° C Snow
Fri 18 December -1° C / -4° C Clowdy
Some delegates begin to realize something at last ?
One woman even said, ‘if lightning strikes me, would they take me out of line?’
OMG funny!
“I don’t need food. I need socks! I’m freezing my ass off out here.”
(At the risk of overstating the obvious jab) Having body parts frozen at a shrimp-fest to complain about global warming? At a certain point I’ll stop laughing at these goofs. 😉
Its the gore effect – expect the cold to continue as he jets in – his limo will probably be warm!