Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A shortage of coal powered EV charging points has allegedly forced COP26 organisers to deploy diesel generators, though they plan to fuel the generators using recycled chip fat.
Shock, horror! COP26 has an electric car problem
22 October 2021, 7:35pm
If absurdity were a source of renewable energy, the COP26 climate change summit might achieve its aim of saving the planet. Yesterday Mr S brought news that local lawyers are set to join rail engineers, transport operators, catering staff and refuse collectors in timing industrial action to coincide with next week’s eco-jamboree. Now Steerpike learns of a fresh crisis afflicting the UN conference: there’s not enough places to power the luxury electric cars needed to ferry delegates around the city.
Some 240 Jaguar Land Rover vehicles including its I-PACE SUVs will be laid on by the UK government to move the 120 visiting heads of state and their entourages between their hotels and the SEC venue. Unfortunately a lack of charging points means the fleet now has to be re-charged by cooking oil-powered generators. A COP26 spokesperson has confirmed that the substitute generators may have to run on hydrogenated vegetable oil – recycled cooking oil – derived from waste products.
Compounding the problem is the lack of hotel capacity in the city which means longer energy-zapping journeys to get to the conference centre. The numbers of temporary generators provided and their locations have yet to be finalised, but there is speculation sites could include the Gleneagles Hotel, 47 miles from Glasgow.
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Read more: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/electric-cars-shortage-shock-at-cop26
I only visited Glasgow once, when I missed the turnoff on the way to Edinburgh, so sadly I don’t have any detailed anecdotes about the wonders of Glasgow.
Maybe I should have given Glasgow a chance, but a Glaswegian work colleague used to tell lots of colourful and rather scary stories of doing beer deliveries to Glaswegian pubs where the tables and chairs were concreted to the floor, so patrons couldn’t pick them up and throw them at each other, or how everyone took a hatchet to the cinema, so they could wave it about while screaming abuse at the movie screen, while watching reruns of “Braveheart“, so I was a little nervous about hanging around.
No doubt a vast smoke cloud from burning chip fat recharging all the eco-friendly EVs will add to the interesting experiences which await delegates.
Note: My former Glaswegian work colleague also told me some good stories about Glasgow. Like the time some English racist thugs decided to go on an Asian stomping tour up North. The tour ended abruptly in Glasgow, when they attacked a couple of Asian looking people in the pub, and everyone else piled in and defended the Asians. What the racists didn’t realise was if you were born in Glasgow you’re a local, doesn’t matter what your skin colour is.
You wish it was embarrassing. The folks attending are not ones to show or feel any shame, being after all on a mission to save us all.
May not be embarrassing for the COP partygoers, but it’s likely to be a humiliating farce for the rest of us that live in the UK. Hopefully someone will see what a complete cockup BoJo’s making of even the simplest of things and remove him before he does any more damage.
…and make sure to remove his technical adviser Miss Nutnut at the same time!
Campout nearby and place “Powered by DIESEL” placards all over the EV charging ports as well as the windshields of plugged in EVs during the entire event. Then, since they can be removed, stand there, like XR protesters with signs proclaiming “Diesel sourced electrons for EV recharging is Hypocritical” blocking the chargers
Of course one could always Sabotage the Diesel Generators so they malfunction just after starting up
sub zero temperatures will do that for you
Maybe, but at the moment (10am, Oct 26) it is 8 degrees C in Glasgow. And the BBC is forecasting 11 degrees C at 11am in Auchterarder. At no point during the timespan of the conference is the BBC forecasting temperatures below zero in either Glasgow or Auchterarder.
Did I forget to mention that Glasgow police are aiming to arrest 300 activists per day of the copfest? Best bet is to wait until some eco warrior wanders past, then shout loudly that you saw them try to sabotage the charging point, to the nearest police officer.
Just don’t prosecute…
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That’s Mrs Nutnut now!
I get the feeling she is one of these double-barrelled name types, so it would be Mrs. Nutnut-Johnson. She is a dangerous person who wields far to much influence in the halls of power.
It looks like Putin couldn’t resist putting his ore in, sending a ‘Glasgow kiss’ to the aging ‘Gretagroupies’.
Apparently Putin said the agreement with Germany is done and dusted ( this is in no way to say that Germans have surrender to Russian) and gas will be flowing day after tomorrow as the pipeline is already pressurised and filled to its working capacity).
Having dug it up, where exactly did he put the ore? And has it been processed first?
Joking aside, I just bet Putin fast-tracked those negotiations to get them done before the copfest. He’s meant to be sending 200 delegates to COP26 – wonder how many will be Gazprom sales managers with blank contracts?
Natural gas comes from the ground, since it is not a fruit or vegetable, I suggest that in case of this and number of other compounds extracted from the ground, the word ‘ore’ should be equally valid regardless of being either fluids or solids. So there.
I wonder where all the planes bringing these people wiill land. I live under the flight path to Glasgow Airport. The planes are quite low when they go over my house. So I hope the 30,000 will be flying to some other destination than Glasgow Airport. (Which isn’t in Glasgow, BTW.)
Here two UK’s ex-MPs both of the left persuasion but surprisingly climate sceptics discus the COP26 Glasgow conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_J4fInzUBY&w=640&h=360%5D
It’s no surprise that people of the left are sceptical of the need to bankrupt the world in order to handle the climate changes that are less than the weather changes.
That’s not a political issue. It’s a common sense issue. Both sides should be able to think that through.
Having said that, George Galloway is not of the left. He’s an Islamist.
And Lembit Opik is not of the left. He’s a Liberal Democrat (Conservative ally).
“It’s a common sense issue.”
Not historically a strength of the left, now unfortunately in very short supply on the right too, and they wonder why people like populists.
They’ll just “run out of other people’s money more quickly”, can’t have that !
The Lib Dems are on the left – they were supposed to be moderate leftists but they’re increasingly further left, though nowhere near the extremes of Labour. Lembit Opik, however, is a bit of an opportunistic politician – he tends to be roughly where he needs to be depending on who he’s talking to or what the subject is. George Galloway is anti-SNP first and foremost.
Vuk,
Has Andreas Malm volunteered to led the forces attempting to sabotage the pipeline in Russia? Maybe he can follow in the footsteps of Mannerheim, leading the Swedes against Russian energy tyranny!
The last time Germany crossed paths with Russia (USSR) it got its backside kicked very hard. I’d imagine that Putin would have done likewise with his gas “agreement”. Ha !
With our money, as well!
They subscribe to an ethical (i.e. relativistic) religion, which is highly politically congruent (“=”). Basically, their behavior is limited only by what they can get away with by consensus (i.e. democratic/dictatorial regime) or Choice.
Eh?
And meanwhile in the real world, thousands of batteries are being recalled in Australia because they might spontaneously burst into flames:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-25/electric-car-solar-battery-storage-waste-recycling/100564234
Wouldn’t that be fun in Glasgow…
Exactly – you have to be capable of embarrassment to be embarrassed. These people have no shame at all, it goes right by them. They’re special, you see, so they get special rules.
They are on a mission to rule us all and impoverish us all. But that doesnt matter. what matters is how voters that live in something like a democracy, will view these shenanigans.
At the moment in the UK we have a combination of ‘climate-climate-climate coming from the MSM, while the blogospere is all about ecobollox and how its all a sham.
I think that COP26 may have jumped the shark.,..
That isn’t the funniest there is a running list including Jap[an flying an empty plane in a practice run to decide which airport the delegation will land at.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/save-the-planet-boris-by-axeing-a-farcical-summit-for-the-world-s-worst-hypocrites/ar-AAPSAxe
Why should they be embarrassed? They have signaled their virtue by driving an EV. You should praise their choice! It isn’t their fault that the host country is unable to provide them a suitably green supply of electrons. Maybe they should tax them more to offset the offense? As I am sure you are aware, the proper tax/fine effectively sequesters CO2 in their bank accounts, never to be released into the atmosphere.
I hope they are only renting the 240 I-Paces as they come in at between £70,000 and £75,000 each depending on the model and can only fit two proper adult sized people in the back!
We are not amused!
Yes, We are not amused, but We respect pronouns.
We do?
Does that mean you don’t take grammatical liberties with them?
If a pronoun and an antinoun meet, do they explode?
No problem, In Glasgow everyone is called Jimmy and that includes women.
I recall the exact spelling is CUJimmah!
The wimmen are called ‘Hen’.
Yes, and that leaves lots of little nouns running around looking for a home!
Need pictures of the jets at the airport…the ones burning chip fat.
Even better, the ones with the charging cables attached
Glasgow is actually a very pleasant city, which like all cities has places best avoided
No doubt there are lovely parts. But still – 19% of ALL homicide cases in Scotland! One of the most dangerous city in Europe…
Classic stats spinning. Glasgow is the biggest most populated city so it’d be surprising if it didnt have “more” of everything!
It has more rats than any other place in the UK, after having more rubbish in the streets than anywhere else in the UK (the SNP are getting it cleared just in time for copfest), it’s the fly-tipping capital of the UK, it has the highest concentration of families in fuel poverty in the UK (25%), as well as the highest use of food banks in the UK. It certainly does have more bad stuff under SNP mismanagement.
No, its only one and a half million.
Leo,
The whole population of Scotland is just under 6 million.
A quarter of them live in Glasgow.
And it does have (some) decidedly pleasant parts.
And deep-fried Mars bars, too.
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A quarter of Scotland’s population lives in the Glasgow metro area, but only about 600,00 people, or about 10%, live in Glasgow proper. The miser rate for the city itself is about 10.4 per 100,000, so far worse than New York.
Glasgow has a murder rate of 5.1 per 100,000 which is a hair under New York City at 5.2, so if you don’t worry about walking around the Big Apple, Glasgow shouldn’t faze you. There are bits to avoid in each, no doubt.
In 2019, Baltimore recorded a homicide rate of 58.27 per 100,000.
I was a Cop in Glasgow. Homicides rarely occur outwith the drug and gangland fraternity. Pretty much like most cities really.
Glasgow police are expecting extinction rebellion to show up in force so are preparing to arrest 300 activists per day, apparently!
If your shoulder number was 26 and you still have it I dare you to take it to Glasgow next week and walk about with it.
“Thurrz been a murdir” – Jim Taggart never said it ?
25 years of Murder …
https://youtu.be/QKxzpXO-ZzU
I preferred him in Bulman – him and Don Henderson had a great sparring relationship in it.
I worked in Maryhill and Possil Park when that series was being filmed. Never once saw a film crew.
Glasgow is a city of splendid Victorian architecture which have been cleaned, together with excellent museums.. It bears no resemblance to the grimy city of 30 years ago
tonyb
It wasn’t grimy 30 years ago. Some parts were rough, but nowhere near as bad as the 70s and 80s.
Where there’s muck, there’s “brass”.
Glasgow, city of high culture and sophistication. Meet one of the official COP26 greeters.
I Wish I Was In Glasgow – Billy Connolly
https://youtu.be/BDXIYFDlC38?list=RDBDXIYFDlC38
I’ve never been there. My Scots ancestors left Glasgow and Lanarkshire for America in the late 1840’s and 1850’s. At least one fought in the Union Army during the Civil War, in a mostly Scots regiment raised in NY City, the 79th NY Volunteers, also known as “The Highlanders”. They took the name of, but were not related to the famed Scots 79th QOH (Queen’s Own Highlanders)…
Ten years ago in Edinburgh I was warned not to visit Glasgow because it was too dangerous!
I can assure you they were talking B0ll0cks.
This renewable con can only exist in a proper way as long as it can feed off of all the other systems it is about to destroy.
Then the ugly truth will show its face.
Communism all over again.
1 week honeymoon (paid by someone else)
Gulag for the rest of your life.
It’s a renewable, but intermittent blight, in order to obfuscate the tell-tale signs of a progressive process.
It’s in the tradition of the old Ealing comedies
Farcical
Ealing Comedy soviet style: Kealing.
Kafka-esque surely?
Someone did a rough calculation based on generator output and recharge times, and estimated the battery cars will get about 5 miles/gallon.
Morano needs to get this on a huge sign for the COPians and MSM to try to ignore.
To that you can add the transportation of the generators and fuel. ‘Chip fat’ as it’s known in Glasgow also has to be collected, transported and cleaned. Nor can it be used on its own for an appreciable time, it needs to be mixed with regular diesel which has detergents etc. required to keep the engine from gumming up…..scientific term dontchaknow…..
I thought CO2 was the villain so what difference does chip fat make?…pretending to be green makes everything OK?
They’ll claim chip fat is carbon neutral as it’s largely vegetable oil.
Yes but, no but, it’s still a hydrocarbon and whatbout the other chemicals used in the conversion process to make this “diesel substitute”, and where did they come from, and how did they get there to the Chip Fat conversion facility?
Here’s an idea. Why not just feed the actual chips, still dripping with fat, to the army of unemployed in Glasgow. Then make them ferry the delegates around in cycle-rickshaws, powered by Human legs which are powered by the potato chips and fat. Surely that’s genuinely “greener” than using £14 million worth of luxury “eco-vehicles” ?
Supercharge your Rickshaw – Feed the driver deep-fried Mars bars !
Look on the bright side they cn make deep fried Mars Bars in the oil prior to fueling their Batshit – Daft –o-Mobiles I enclose a little grreting card for all the planet warriors in Glasgow https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8epmwd9sc0vrl8/Glasgow%20greetings.pdf?dl=0
Ooooh that hurt, you got the obsessive compulsive going in me..
Bless Jaguar tho, they haz calculator
I put in ‘urban motorway’ mixed driving at an ambient temp of 5C and using the Air-Con to give 209 miles on a 90kWh charge
Biodiesel weighs in at 38MJ per kilo and 0.88 kg per litre
Thus one UK gallon (4.54 Litres) run throgh a genset with overall 30% efficiency will get you 13kWh of electrikery or 30.2 miles in an i-Pace
Take 10 to 15% off that for the car’s internal workings
Gotta be about what the standard motor does I’d guess and as Jag rave considerably about a low drag coefficient on this particular crate
That, right there, is funny. Not LOL funny, more like tee hee accompanied by a sad headshake
So…is oil extracted from plants using electricity from coal plants and grown using gas powered tractors and fossil-fuel derived fertilizers considered green? I wonder what the efficiency of that process is? – power concumed versus power actually stored in charged batteries..
It’s OK, Robert, they’re going to get to Net Zero by cooking all of their food over buffalo chips.
The thing is, it costs a fortune to collect, dry and ship the buffalo chips from Alberta.
Yes, but think of the smoky flavor undertones!
Mmmm … yummy!
Heh. Well, I called it about a day ago on another post here. The UK government is clueless and pretty incompetent at the best of times – this whole farce will be completely embarrassing for the UK. I would say a train wreck, except the trains aren’t running either.
Yes all we need is a couple of seriously cold days and a decent dump of snow to complete the farce
Maybe, maybe not. What’s the bitter Sturgeon planning on doing during this cockup? Unless she’s fermenting an idea that Scotland should be given ‘developing nation’ status and some free handouts?
Scotland is already the free handout capitol of the UK.
Snow is falling in the Grampian region (north east of Glasgow) which is anticipated to spread to the West coast by halloween. Almost unheard of since the planet began its welcome warming in the 70’s.
You will remember we had snow falling in the South In October on the day the Climate Change Act was being discussed in Parliament
I remember your post.
Unfortunately, most people will get news from COP from official government press releases filtered through pliant, ignorant and self-green-righteous leftist media, who all ‘KNOW’ in their hearts the TRUTH of their cause, irregardless of the facts that refuse to fall inline with their cultist beliefs.
Glasgow CoP is truly shaping up as a return to vaudeville era theater.
The main question now though, is will they embrace blackface song & dance routines again?
Yes I think Justin Trudeau is coming to the party
Will he be doing a soft shoe shuffle or tap-dancing away from trouble?
Trudeau will be garbed like a Rajput prince … c/w brown-face, matching jodhpurs and marigold garlands (pure Bollywood).
Yes. He said sorry a couple of times, so of course he’s back in favor with the political / celebrity crowd.
(But did he ever lose favor with them over this abhorrent behavior?
I never saw any evidence of such.)
What a pity that the late Lord Brian Rix is no longer with us. He was an English actor-manager, who produced a record-breaking sequence of long-running farces on the London stage, including Dry Rot, Simple Spymen and One for the Pot, known as “Whitehall Farces”.
He’d have made an ideal Chairman for the Glasgow COP, and might have addressed the assembled delegates with his trousers missing, having just run downstairs from a balcony, whilst pursued by some angry husband or other. After all the whole premiss is a travesty.
The conference gets more ridiculous every year! It will be hilarious to see all the contradictions and hypocrisy, popcorn please!
Some years back I had the “privilege” of following a used-vegetable-oil burning diesel Volvo station wagon on a crowded freeway. The stench of the exhaust was like the worst grungy dive burger joint on a beach boardwalk on a blistering hot, windless day, multiplied by 10.
I do hope the generators are placed upwind of the hotels and conference center, with just enough breeze to shove the exhaust into the rooms.
It’s going to get pretty damn disgusting – the smell of desperation mingled with burning rancid chip fat. I certainly don’t think Dior will be marketing a COP 26 perfume ever!
COPFLOP 26 is alive and wellClogged arteries to power generators to charge cars–typical. Where is the NHS parade at COP26?
Glasgow has the most extensive local rail system outside London. The venue has its own rail station. Why do they need top-end private EVs to travel? Get the bus or the train !
Or perhaps bicycles could be made available on loan. The weather forecast is miserable, single-digit temperatures (C) and rain most days. It will also be dark at about 1630, but this is the reality of life they have planned for us. They should be made to cycle to and from the venue in the dark and in the rain.
You may or may not be aware that Glasgow is in the grip of a railworkers (and others) strike at the moment. So – no trains. So about them bicycles then?
All the more reason to hand them a bicycle when they get off the plane !
I hope the “delegates” who have travelled furthest to COP are billeted furthest from the venue – why not, they are used to travelling. We have about 14 such green idiots going all the way from New Zealand, to achieve absolutely nothing. A bit of exercycling would do them good.
Most of the delegates are being housed in Edinburgh, the VIP’s at least. So a 50 min car ride or nearly 5 hours by bike. That’ll be funny to watch.
Especially if IrritateBritain™ glue themselves to the roads….
Glasgow is not London. If they glue themselves to the road, the locals will have an easier time going through their pockets for valuables. Plus the roads around the venue are being closed tomorrow to fill potholes, etc. so will have a fresh tarry surface when the ecoloons arrive! Popcorn anyone?
Ahh the smell of Deep Fried Mars Bars in the morning as the generators fumes drift by.
I predict the North Atlantic surface temperature chart will not be updated until after COP26. Bad news must be delayed and deferred.
According to UK government policy they should all be walking or cycling for their short journeys – or does this rule just apply to us plebs ?
I’d think the answer to that is self evident…
Like adding STP to gas in the tank, will they be adding a bottle of malt vinegar for each tank of ‘chip fat’? 😉
Only vinegar for the Glasgow end of the journey.
Those travelling from Edinburgh must add Brown Sauce !
My favourite FACT to deploy against EV zealots: What happens when you plug one in for recharging? What happens is that a FOSSIL FUEL power station increases its output, to meet the extra demand, renewables are always on max, and can’t increase their output.
Another good one is to ask the owner what happened to his/her carbon footprint when the EV was bought.
This too will be hidden by a compliant MSM. If people knew the extent they were being mushroomed by biased media they would be outraged. Or they know and don’t care. Or they know and are outraged. But I think the majority don’t know.
Of course it’s one or two days at the conference and ten days touring Scotland so they need a car instead of a Taxi. A Jaguar Land Rover will do nicely, but where do they recharge driving alongside Loch Ness. No they’ll hire a diesel car and do the Whisky route; Johny Walker, Cardhu, Glenfidich etc. It’s OK we’re paying.
Just think. arising on a glorious sunshiny morning to the smell of French fries cooking.
No french fries mate – it’s chip fat, as in chips – got sod all to do with French fries.
Not many sunshiny mornings in the forecast I’m afraid. Have to make do with the smell of chips on its own.
This COP may actually be highly beneficial for the locals, no cancellation of large gatherings until it is over, get your weddings and funerals done quickly.
Latest thing is there are so many road closures that GPs are cancelling medical appointments for 3 weeks ‘cos the patients won’t be able to travel to the surgeries.
Ohmigod, it’s worse than we thought!
As with most recycling schemes, recycling cooking oil makes zero sense financially, and about the only thing going for it is the feel-good, virtue-signaling aspect. It is the ultimate stupidity, and laughably hypocritical to use it to charge luxury EVs though. You really can’t make this stuff up.
As Jamie Oliver swears the very best fish and chips are done in beef tallow fat. I agree.
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/the-perfect-chips/
Not known how the diesel generators handle such?
A diesel can burn crude oil, when properly set up.
No, they’ll have made sure that these are only vegetarian diesel generators – vegetable oil only, I’m afraid!
Those buffoons are THE actual threat for the humanity. There is nothing left but to put them all ASAP out of the way.
Instead of Council of the Parties (COP),
it ought to be
Parties of the Conferees (POC)
How much more CO2 and particulate carbon are produced by burning cooking oil to generate electricity than burning gas in a regular suv?
Not sure. But I did just find out that half of the used cooking oil we use in fuels in the UK (thats about 224M tonnes) is imported from China, so already has a huge carbon footprint before it gets burnt. However, I did see one post by some learned gentlebeing that informed everyone that reused cooking oil was obviously carbon neutral as the ‘carbon’ had only recently been sequestered in the plants that made the oil, not laid down aeons ago in the fossil oils that made diesel. Priceless!
Ah … but the warmunists rationalize that cooking oil is natural, not pumped from the ground. Therefore it doesn’t “add” sequestered CO2.
Pretty certain it would be more efficient to use the modified cooking oil in the SUV diesel engine directly.
With highly sensible thoughts like that, it’s clear that you will never amount to anything in this modern, postintelligence society!
Takes energy from fossil fuels to produce the “bio-waste fuel.” Took energy from fossil fuels to produce the oils in the first place. Then,of course, fossil fuels to transport the generators and fuel to where it is needed.
Those, of course, are minor. The MAIN “pollution” is coming from the production of the “green” SUVs and the production and operation of the luxury airplanes.
Also took quite a lot of fossil fuels to transport half of it all the way from China. It’s pure virtue signalling, not an ounce of sense in the lot of ’em.
Totally off topic for the weather watchers here. Check AccuWeather’s national snow,ice,rain radar and tell me if I am the only person seeing a 60 odd mile wide rotating circle of clouds/rain. I checked nullschool Earth winds running image and see it there, too.
nd a partial one around Amarillo, too.
Think any of the Senator’s participating in this will take their dis information to the conference:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-oil-attend-u-house-142857225.html
Too bad it’s likely a witch hunt with a predetermined conclusion.
If there’s anything that COVID 19 has taught me, it’s that we are generally governed by idiots and self serving grifters. Tell me how I’m wrong.
If there’s anything that COVID 19 has taught me, it’s that we are
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How can you tell them apart from the truly malevolent?
Eric,
We can only hope that there are lots of climate realists in the area filming this comedy of errors! It sounds like it might make for a modern Keystone Kops series; unlike the pipeline cancellation, which was a straight tragedy!
How about a Benny Hill special?
How many will be flying in on private jets? (or any jet for that matter)
How many EV limos are there in the world?
Here in the US, I seem to remember that Solydra wasn’t the only company that scammed the US taxpayer under Obama. There were also “bio-diesel” execs that walked away taxpayer dollars in their pockets when their companies went belly-up.
Of course all the VIP jets will be fueled by recycled fat. And once there, the delegates will generate enough hot air that Glasgow will experience localised warming, and that will create wind shifts to power the Whitelee Windmills on Eaglesham Moor, just 15km from Glasgow, to provide power for the entire population, sometimes.
Glasgow is actually a much more interesting city than Edinburgh thanks to the work of the architects like Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander (Greek) Thomson, splendid Victorian Architecture, and a wide range of interesting museums. It is a great shame to see the noble city associated with such a debased political exercise as COP26.
There were a bunch of propane heaters hanging around that “Big White Tent” about a week ago … surely they’re not using <<<gas>>> to heat the event?
If they were really concerned about CO2 emissions then they would all stay home in strict climate lockdown and have their meeting over the Internet. The technology to do that has been available for decades.
Yes but then only the 4000 or so actual negotiators could take part and what would the other 25,000 hangers on do spoilsport?
As a wholly impartial Sassenach, I think that the fact that there is a dearth of hotel accommodation in Glasgow in October/November should tell you a lot about the general demand for such things: i.e. Not much.
On the other hand, I was once told by an educated Glaswegian that Edinburgh (the Capitol of Scotland) was sometimes described as a city that ought to be in England, but doesn’t deserve to be.
C’mon Man! Gimme a break.
They just need to admit that Climate Change policy impacts are for us Little People.
Sometimes at world events leaders are given shirts for group photograph sessions.
What about Jimmy Hats for Glasgow?
And don’t explain it’s known as “taking the piss”.
The only time I tried to walk into a Glasgow pub, I was stopped by a bouncer who asked if I had any knives, guns, bottles, screwdrivers or anything else that could be used as a weapon to maim or injure
When I said no, he said, “You better take this then, it’s a bit rough in there” whilst handed me a cosh
This is an urban legend, isn’t it?
I see different makes of EV alleged to be involved, not corresponding to actual vehicles to be used… plus most delegates will be moved on a fleet of electric buses.
I can find no hard evidence of this.
alarmism and rumour mongering, as is all too common on Watts these days.
The Spectator got the story’s from an interview in the Scotsman with a COP26 organiser. If you are suggesting The Scotsman completely made it up, its not impossible, but it seems pretty unlikely a news outlet would take such a risk.
Oh Griff, sweetie, even the CAGW zealot “fact checkers” admit it’s true:
https://fullfact.org/online/COP26-Tesla-cars/
Griff mate,
It’s really easy to check these things, you know. All you have to do is follow the link provided
If you don’t believe the link, post something that shows it is false, don’t just claim it’s a myth
As for alarmism on WUWT, most of the alarmism here comes from you
Well Griffy – all I had to do was input the search terms into Google and I got pages of links; the scotsman, daily mail, 5 or 6 other news sites and 2-3 fact check sites. All of which had the same information and confirmed the source material. If you can’t even find that then what the hell are you doing on here – the absolute minimum requirement is that you can check your sources as well as others. Not only are you deeply delusional and mentally ill, you’re completely and utterly incompetent as well. Go away you pathetic excuse.
What’s your share of the money grab?
Developed nations to deliver climate fund 3 years late, hope to rebuild trust (yahoo.com)
The bit about the shortage of electricity points I can agree with but the other made up stories….wow what a load of bullshit……. Thugs touring Northern England who end up in Glasgow, you obviously know nothing and like made up racist tosh….
Who knows, I think I made it clear it was an anecdote. From memory I read something about it at the time, I tried looking it up after I heard the story, but its a long lost minor item in the digital graveyard.
Moored on the Clyde.
Glasgow is much tamer than it used to be and the reputation wasn’t warranted even when I lived there as a student in the early 90s. Lots of very rough places in the suburbs, but a lot of cities have that. Some are probably desired locations now (especially the waterfront).
Found the people to be friendly enough. Plenty of banter. Odd having off-licences with metal bars/grill between you and the merchandise mind you.
It’s changed massively since that time. Huge amounts of building and improvements. Unfortunately devolution happened soon after and now Glasgow is run by Labour/SNP who are as incompetent and corrupt as it gets.
People get what they vote for.
One thing I noted when I lived there was the odd black building – a reminder of the huge amount of soot that used to coat the place (and every other city).
It is the smell of other people’s money that binds them.
Developed nations to deliver climate fund 3 years late, hope to rebuild trust (yahoo.com)
I wonder if generators running on veg oil meet the Euro6 emissions standard? Of course it may even be degraded used oil from the Chip shops in Glasgow, famous for deep fried battered Mars Bars!
This is even more embarrassing. I’m afraid of these kind of politicians. In a world still without alternatives to fossil fuels, this lady says this https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/cop26-nicola-sturgeon-says-continued-oil-and-gas-extraction-is-wrong-3431461
Sturgeon just allied the SNP with the Scottish Greens to keep her majority in Holyrood. The price she has to pay is giving up on Scottish oil and gas reserves; the one thing that the SNP previously admitted will keep an independent Scotland solvent (just barely). It’s early days but this could backfire and erode the SNP’s core independence supporters. It’ll be interesting to see if either Sturgeon or the SNP politically survive this alliance.
Indeed?
It’s been my experience that hydrogenated recycled chip fat thickens when it is really cold outside.
Sounds like lots of fun in Glasgow this year. snicker snicker.
Now, that is a proper precautionary principle in action!
Keep in mind, that for sport, these characters throw cabers so they flip end over end while in the air, I’d sure hate to be on the receiving end of a concrete weighted chair or table.
C’mon, you know somebody will uproot one every now and then.
I presume their TVs also suffered some outbursts of frustration? Glasgow sounds like a good location for a television/monitor outlet.
I’ve heard that the oil used to fry battered Mars Bar doesn’t carry the same smell as the usual Fish Shop oil.
What kind of ‘gas’ mileage would you get with an EV is you charged your EV with a gallon of gas?