Copenhagen Global Warming Summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and Caviar Wedges
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, December 6, 2009, 12:14 PM
Remember: It’s a crisis.
Surely, the Goracle did not fly his private Gulfstream Jet into such an important summit meeting.
1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar.
The Telegraph reported:
Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.
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.”
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.
As Glenn Reynolds says: “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”
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bg commented:
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Obama: the “lotto” president..
also a lotto talk, lotto balk, lotto nothing for
something, and sacrifice is for thee not he..
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Solaratov commented:
Don’t you understand? These people are your betters. They are the “elite” who are concerned about the Earth – and their concern is what counts.
The actual sacrificing for the sake of Gaia will be done by the “little people”, who are less important in the world-wide scheme of things.
Now, shut up, eat your tofu and walk to work — like good little droids.
Obey, dammit!
Chisum commented:
Now that BO has solved the unemployment problem he can focus on climate change. Right?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/graph_of_the_day_for_december_5.html
AuntieMadder commented:
The number of limos and jets required to transport the Climategate delegates is astounding. I knew it would be a lot but, geez!
I’m in agreement with Glenn Reynolds. If those clowns wanted me to believe them, they would have teleconferenced the event instead of jetting in from around the world. Hell, at the very least, they could have flown in on commercial flights instead of their private jets and even Obamao could have done his part to “save the planet” by inviting Algore and perhaps a few others from DC to fly with him on AF1. There’s just no explanation for the AGW priests not to behave as if they believe in the religion that they created except that they don’t believe it, either.
JP commented:
And if AlGore really was worried but just HAD to take a private plane, he could get a newer, greener model of the Gulfstream. Like Rush has “ferinstance”. Gore has an old one with the old less efficient engines.
bg commented:
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via TRBO
ClimateGate: Fiddling with Facts
[Marc Sheppard provides a clear explanation of ClimateGate’s “hidden decline” and more about what fiddling with the facts means at American Thinker. RBO highly recommends reading his FACT-filled post to get all
the details.]
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Dudly commented:
I’m a smoker, quite simply that means that my olfactory organs are at best ” trashed “; i smelled the Al Gore croc of feces a while back but what really confounds me is the fact that the “green movement-no pun intended ” ( it’s probaly not called that anymore, dont even bother keeping up with titles ) is so much more aromatic with a very pungent smell. Gotta go, time to put up the christmas light’s-think Al will care?
bg commented:
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Velkommen Kobenhavn
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Just Brayin commented:
“We don’t have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars.”
WTF? Why would they impose extreme taxes on hybrids? Does that make any sense?
Babsy commented:
#7: AGW is BS anyway so the only difference it would make to use a more efficient engine is to lower the fuel bill for the trip. I recently read that one of the moons of either Saturn or Jupiter has oceans made of hydrocarbons. With so much carbon present one would think the surface temperature of the moon to be in the bazillions. Apparently that isn’t the case. I wonder where all the flora and fauna came from to produce all those organic compounds on those alien worlds??? You know. since petroleum is a ‘fossil fuel’, I mean…..
Neo commented:
Any questions why the MSM has been so quiet ?
DaMav commented:
These are the same people telling us we are using too many toilet paper panels to wipe our butts.
Chisum commented:
56 Newspapers to Sing As One About Copenhagen
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/12/56-newspapers-to-sing-as-one-about.html
Hedgehog commented:
This is nothing less than an all out assault on freedom based on dishonest and misleading science and junk journalism. When science and the media have been so thououghly compromised, when they conspire to become “pervayors of the big lie”,what can one believe. It is not about climate. It is about money and control. This may be a bloodless war, but it nothing short of war. The very sovereignty of the United States is in the balance. Any concession to this is treason. The people had better wake up.
DT commented:
Climategate source code more damning than emails.
http://oneutah.org/2009/11/28/climategate-source-code-more-damning-than-emails/
BertoGem commented:
Here’s one of Michael Mann’s grants, funded by NSF. it is for $541,184, paid from stimulus funds. Interesting, no?
Initial Amendment Date: June 18, 2009
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Latest Amendment Date: June 18, 2009
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Award Number: 0902133
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Award Instrument: Standard Grant
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Program Manager: David J. Verardo
AGS Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
GEO Directorate for Geosciences
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Start Date: June 15, 2009
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Expires: May 31, 2012 (Estimated)
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Awarded Amount to Date: $541184
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Investigator(s): Michael Mann mann@psu.edu (Principal Investigator)
Klaus Keller (Co-Principal Investigator)
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Sponsor: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
110 Technology Center Building
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 814/865-1372
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NSF Program(s): PALEOCLIMATE PROGRAM
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Field Application(s): 0000099 Other Applications NEC
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Program Reference Code(s): EGCH, 6890, 1304
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Program Element Code(s): 1530
ABSTRACT
Funding is provided to combine paleoclimate and instrumental observations with a new Earth system Model of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC) to improve constraints on key climate parameters including those governing dynamical and potentially abrupt responses to forcing. Specifically, the research team will focus on dynamical mechanisms associated with the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) using an existing EMIC (“LOVECLIM”). The broader impacts involve supporting postdoctoral scholars and graduate students and contributing to the understanding of abrupt climate change.
This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).
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