From The Daily Caller
10:11 PM 12/27/2018 | Energy
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
- The New York Times was silent on whether or not it would ban private jets to fight global warming.
- The Times published an editorial Wednesday lamenting President Donald Trump’s reversal of Obama-era climate policies.
- The Times also flew wealthy readers around the world in a private jet earlier in 2018 for $135,000 a piece.
The New York Times editorial board is warning President Donald Trump’s rolling back of the Obama administration’s climate agenda “imperils the planet.”
However, The Daily Caller News Foundation asked The Times if it would ever back a powerful gesture — a ban on private jets.
Its editorial board, which represents the views of publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., opined on the signing of the Paris climate accord in 2015 before calling 2018 “one of the most discouraging years in recent memory for anyone who cares about the health of the planet.”
It was “a year marked by President Trump’s destructive, retrograde policies, by backsliding among big nations, by fresh data showing that carbon dioxide emissions are still going up, by ever more ominous signs,” the editorial board wrote Wednesday.
If global warming is truly the urgent, existential crisis The Times’ editorial board makes it out to be, it should be willing to condemn the use of private jets, right? No one really needs a private jet, and flying commercial usually comes with a much lower carbon footprint.
The Times’ editorial board and press representatives did not respond to TheDCNF’s inquiry. Interestingly enough, The Times offered 50 wealthy readers the chance to join its writers on a luxury private jet tour around the world earlier in 2018.
Travelers joining the $135,000-per-person world tour got to ride in style on an “exclusively chartered Boeing 757 with first-class, fully lie-flat seat.” The world tour was set to begin at Times headquarters in New York City on Feb. 8, and last through March 5.
The tour was expected to net The Times upwards of $6.7 million, which is part of Sulzberger Jr.’s plan to “monetize” the paper’s name in an era where news agencies are struggling. In fact, Sulzberger gave guests a behind-scenes-tour of The Times’ headquarters before their 26-day tour, according to a brochure.
“Private jet travel allows for a more authentic and intimate journey than you have ever experienced,” reads The Times’ brochure for its global junket.
“Our privately chartered jet accommodates just 50 guests, which, combined with The Times’s familiarity with newsmakers and events, allows us to pack your itinerary with exclusive, invitation-only experiences, including a private dinner in Bogotá’s Salt Cathedral, a special Australian culinary experience and an exclusive reception with a former personal assistant to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,” reads the brochure.
Obviously, banning private jet travel wouldn’t solve global warming if what the United Nations projects is accurate, but lamenting rising emissions while also sponsoring the conspicuous consumption of thousands of gallons of jet fuel seems more than a little hypocritical.
A Boeing 757 normally seats up to 295 passengers and can burn over 720 gallons of fuel per hour. The Times’ junket will fly guests more than 29,000 miles, emitting the very same carbon dioxide Times’ writers often sound the alarm about.
Among the writers accompanying the luxury tour was columnist Nicholas Kristof, who spoke to guests about global warming on the remote Easter Island.
Kristof’s column said because of global warming, “[w]e fear for the ocean food chain and worry about feedback loops that will irreversibly accelerate this process, yet still we act like Easter Islanders hacking down their trees.”
TheDCNF previously asked 31 businesses, foundations and individuals that back the Paris climate accord if they’d be willing to back a ban on private jets. Virtually all of them ignored the question, including representatives for former Vice President Al Gore. (RELATED: TheDCNF Asked Paris Climate Accord Backers If They’d Support Banning Private Jets. Most Didn’t Respond)
To keep projected global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, the main goal of the Paris accord, the U.N. says emissions need to dramatically come down. The world is currently on track for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, according to the U.N.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who made fighting global warming a central part of his campaign, also came under fire for spending nearly $300,000 on private jet travel in one month.
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Maybe you nailed it Kurt. They were served insects, virtue signaling to the rest of us where it all has to end up.
Ya think maybe?
By definition, all Climate Activists are, in addition to being morons, hypocrites. It’s just a matter of degree. They manage to stave off much of the cognitive dissonance by line drawing, conveniently placing themselves on the “good” side of the line by listing all the things they “do for the climate”. This of course includes things they would be doing anyway.
Well as the Instapundit is fond of saying: “I will believe that it is a crisis, when they start acting like it is a crisis.”
As Donald Trump Denies Climate Change, These Kids Die of It
Nicholas Kristof
By Nicholas Kristof
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/sunday/as-donald-trump-denies-climate-change-these-kids-die-of-it.html
Cheers Nick, you’re a killer. One without a conscience….
Trump should come and feel these children’s ribs and watch them struggle for life.
So should (Among the writers accompanying the luxury tour) Nicholas Kristof
Does Trump get credit for increased crop yeilds due to higher CO2 availability in the atmosphere?
As Donald Trump Denies Climate Change, These Kids Die of It
By Nicholas Kristof – NYT
Cheers Nick, you’re a real killer. A killer with no conscience whatsoever, a sociopath….
Trump should come and feel these children’s ribs and watch them struggle for life.
So should (Among the writers accompanying the luxury tour) Nicholas Kristof
And these same elitist people are the first to condem mega church preachers for their extravagant lifestyles, who deserve such criticism . Make no mistake, this is the new religion where blue haired ladies give their meager income to fund grifters like Al Gore who’s self righteousness eclipses medieval popes.
Bring on human change. Holding my breath though.
The movies “Logan’s Run” and “Rollerball” seem to be more prophetic everyday.
And while on the subject of reducing carbon a$$ prints per air mile traveled, get rid of first class on all commercial flights and pack the pigs, the Napoleons and Squealers, in with the rest of the lowly animals in coach to share the seats and cramped space with the Boxers, Benjamins, and Mollies. Do it for the children.
I use to think that people calling global warming a “religion’ are being mean, but it slowly dawned to me the reality. Believing in global warming is more important than living environmental friendly lifestyle. It is not nust these rich people though. I heard from a classmate that it is a conpiracy that individuals are responsible for recycling when industries are responsible for most of the waste. Most global warming believers are equal to the Catholics who use confession as an excuse to get away with stuff. They will plead to do some change once in a while but only really do anything when disaster ( or death) is around the corner.
Youp,
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who made fighting global warming a central part of his campaign, also came under fire for spending nearly $300,000 on private jet travel in one month
here we go.