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!
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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).
BertoGem commented:
Here’s another grant Michael Mann got from NSF (National Science Foundation). This grant provided $100,000 of taxpayer money to purchase a Linux computer cluster for climate modeling.
Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster for the Penn State “Earth System Science Center (ESSC)”
NSF Org: EAR
Division of Earth Sciences
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Initial Amendment Date: August 18, 2006
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Latest Amendment Date: August 18, 2006
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Award Number: 0548962
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Award Instrument: Standard Grant
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Program Manager: David Lambert
EAR Division of Earth Sciences
GEO Directorate for Geosciences
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Start Date: September 1, 2006
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Expires: August 31, 2008 (Estimated)
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Awarded Amount to Date: $100000
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Investigator(s): Michael Mann mann@psu.edu (Principal Investigator)
Michael Arthur (Co-Principal Investigator)
David Pollard (Co-Principal Investigator)
Richard Alley (Co-Principal Investigator)
Jenni-Louise Evans (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): INSTRUMENTATION & FACILITIES
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Field Application(s): 0000099 Other Applications NEC
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Program Reference Code(s): OTHR, 0000
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Program Element Code(s): 1580
ABSTRACT
EAR-0548962
Mann
The Penn State Earth System Science Center or “ESSC” (www.essc.psu.edu) was originally founded within the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences in 1986. The ESSC maintains a mission to describe, model, and understand the Earth’s climate based on a research approach that involves (i) a multi-tiered approach to climate modeling, (ii) the use of long-term, high resolution climate model integration experiments, (iii) an emphasis on “process oriented” studies to bridge multiple timescales, and (iv) the synthethis of modeling, empirical analyses, and studies of fundamental processes. The ESSC also seeks to promote interaction among scientists (faculty, students, and staff) within the various departments of EESI and EMS, and to provide educational opportunities and computational resources to both students and researchers at Penn State affiliated with the center. With expertise in the areas of geochemistry, geology, ice science, climatology and climate sensitivities of weather phenomena, and climate modeling, and new leadership by Director M. Mann, the ESSC has the basic ingredients required for a world-class center for the study of climate and paleoclimate. What has been lacking in recent years, however, are the computational resources required to meet ESSC research goals. Such needs can now be met with the grant provided by the NSF EAR/IF program in response to our proposal submitted in 2005. This grant will allow the ESSC to purchase a high-performance Linux computing cluster. Based on previous benchmarking by ESSC personnel, this computing cluster will be suitable for many of the computationally intensive numerical models to be used in the center, providing both MPI and Open-MP parallelization, and substantial increases in speed over the Penn State EESI Cray, which is in the process of being phased out.
BertoGem commented:
This is another $459,398 grant for ClimateGate grant, courtesy of the USA taxpayers. “Principal Investigators” routinely fund part of their own salaries, their research staff’s salaries as well as supplies, travel and “other expenses” with grant monies. There is no requirement that the investigators produce any deliverables –as their would be in a contract– and very little oversight of how the funds are spent. This is how scientific research is done in America.
Award Abstract #0542356
Analysis and Testing of Proxy-Based Climate Reconstructions
NSF Org: AGS
Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
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Initial Amendment Date: February 28, 2006
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Latest Amendment Date: December 17, 2007
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Award Number: 0542356
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Award Instrument: Continuing 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: March 1, 2006
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Expires: February 28, 2010 (Estimated)
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Awarded Amount to Date: $459398
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Investigator(s): Michael Mann mann@psu.edu (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): OTHR, 1304, 0000
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Program Element Code(s): 1530
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This project will develop proxy-based reconstructions of large-scale surface temperature patterns, atmospheric circulation, and continental drought over the past two millennia. The rationale behind the research is that quantitative comparison of reconstructions and simulations of climate over the past two millennia can provide an assessment of the extent to which natural and anthropogenic forcing can explain observed patterns of climatic change. The research builds upon promising results by the researcher in testing proxy network design strategies for climate field reconstruction using climate model simulation results.
The research addresses important issues with broad impact to the wider science community regarding the factors underlying past climate variability and the implications for understanding future change. These include an understanding the spatial and temporal details of past changes in the Earth’s climate including the role of tropical Pacific ocean-atmosphere processes (e.g. El Nino Southern Oscillation), the Northern Annual Mode (NAM), and Southern Annular Mode (SAM) in explaining observed patterns of large-scale climate (e.g., surface temperature and atmospheric circulation) variability and change over the past two millennia.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
Goosse, H., Arzel, O., Luterbacher, J., Mann, M.E., Renssen, H., Riedwyl, N., Timmermann, A., Xoplaki, E., Wanner, H.. “The origin of the European “Medieval Warm Period”,” Climate of the Past, v.2, 2006, p. 99.
Goosse, H., Renssen, H., Timmermann, A., Bradley, R.S., Mann, M.E.. “Using paleoclimate proxy-data to select optimal realisations in an ensemble of simulations of the climate of the past millennium,” Climate Dynamics, v.27, 2006, p. 165.
Goosse, H.; Mann, M.E.; Rennsen, H.; Timmermann, A.. “Data assimilation over the last millennium using ensemble techniques,” PAGES News, v.16, 2008, p. 15.
Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S., Wahl, E., Ammann, C.. “Robustness of Proxy-Based Climate Field Reconstruction Methods,” Journal of Geophysical Research, 2007.
Mann, M.E., Zhang, Z., Hughes, M.K., Bradley, R.S., Miller, S.K., Rutherford, S., Ni, F.. “Proxy-Based Reconstructions of Hemispheric and Global Surface Temperature Variations over the Past Two Millennia,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v.105, 2008, p. 13.
Michael Mann. “Climate Over the Past Two Millennia,” Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, v.35, 2007, p. 111.
Rutherford, S.; Mann, M.E.; Wahl, E.; Ammann, C.. “Reply to: “Comment on ‘Robustness of proxy-based climate field reconstruction methods’, by Mann et al.”,” J. Geophys. Res, 2008.
BertoGem commented:
In case you’re wondering, I’m getting this information for the National Science Foundation Website at:
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0125670
Below is a fourth in a series of grants awarded to Michael Mann.
Award Abstract #0125670
Collaborative Research: Remote Observations of Ice Sheet Surface Temperature: Toward Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Antarctic Climate Variability
NSF Org: ANT
Antarctic Sciences Division
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Initial Amendment Date: August 27, 2002
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Latest Amendment Date: June 28, 2004
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Award Number: 0125670
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Award Instrument: Continuing grant
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Program Manager: Bernhard Lettau
ANT Antarctic Sciences Division
OPP Office of Polar Programs
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Start Date: September 1, 2002
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Expires: August 31, 2005 (Estimated)
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Awarded Amount to Date: $132948
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Investigator(s): Michael Mann mann@psu.edu (Principal Investigator)
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Sponsor: University of Virginia Main Campus
P.O. BOX 400195
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22904 434/924-4270
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NSF Program(s): ANTARCTIC OCEAN & ATMOSPH SCI
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Field Application(s): 0311000 Polar Programs-Related
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Program Reference Code(s): OTHR, 0000
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Program Element Code(s): 5113
ABSTRACT
This project will develop spatially extended and statistically reliable estimates of Antarctic surface temperature variations over the past several centuries, using a multi-proxy calibration/verification approach that combines the climate signal in ice core, satellite remote sensing, and weather station data. Antarctica has been problematic from the point of view of large-scale paleoclimate reconstruction because of the paucity of long-term instrumental data, and the relatively low resolution of most ice cores. Several new developments, particularly the network of shallow (~100 meter) ice cores from the ongoing International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) project will yield broad spatial coverage of annually resolved ice core physical properties, chemistry, and stable isotope data over more than a hundred years. Second, there are now over twenty years of microwave and infrared brightness temperatures available from satellites covering virtually all of Antarctica with seasonally resolved information that has been demonstrated to record the ice surface/near surface temperature with very reasonable precision and accuracy. Finally, higher quality microwave emission data from Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometers (AMSR) with much finer spatial resolution and radiometric fidelity than those from previous sources will offer an improved view of longer term mean temperatures in Antarctica.
The 40-year instrumental record and the shorter but spatially more comprehensive Automatic Weather Station network will be combined with seasonally-resolved 37-gigahertz satellite-based ice surface temperature estimates to reconstruct Antarctic-wide temperature patterns during the past forty years. The sparser Antarctic instrumental surface temperature data available back nearly to the beginning of the century will be added for longer-term, though quite spatially-restricted, cross-validation of these reconstructions. This cross-validation procedure has been used successfully with roughly century-long instrumental records at locations primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. The longer time scale will be approached through a cross-validation of the proxy-based pre-20th century surface temperature reconstructions using information on thermal emission from deeper in the firn that is contained in low-frequency passive microwave satellite measurements. The low-frequency estimates, supplemented by borehole thermometry, will provide important independent verification of the long-term averages of the annual surface temperature reconstructions.
JP Blickenstaff commented:
You will know it is a crisis when there is a ban on beer and other carbonated drinks.
Nicholas Fischer commented:
With a summit of this magnitude, concerned purley on the earth’s future survial, why is it that we are consuming so much resources and adding so many thousands of tons of CO2?
Surly we can in such an “educated” time in our existance use a simple technology….Video Conferencing?
Andreas K. commented:
lol, electric cars… Toys, nothing else.
We could double the CO2 in the atmosphere and NOTHING would happen.
Nicholas, video conferencing would be CHEAP and SIMPLE, can’t have the royalty of today do with such cheap stuff, right? ‘Sides, caviar isn’t really the same when it’s digital. E-caviar isn’t good. They need the real deal. Leaders of such religions can’t live without luxury.
You know, I believed this stuff until a couple of years ago. Then I had a look at the actual numbers. You know, how much CO2 we produce and how much CO2 there already is and how much CO2 other lifeforms produce and then I realized: what kind of bullshite is this?
Oh it sounds horrible when all the media screams about how many million tons of CO2 we produce. But do they ever, just once, say how much that is compared to other lifeforms on this planet? How much it is compared to the CO2 in the atmosphere? No, they don’t. They don’t do that, because the moment they do it… nobody will believe them anymore. That’s how it is. Because our amount of CO2 pales in comparison to what insects alone produce. But we’re soooo bad. Of course. Meh!