Posted on 12/11/2023 5:35:48 AM PST by dennisw
Wealthiest 1 percent of world's population produce as much carbon as the bottom 66 percent, a new study shows.
'Ludicrous Hypocrisy' Global leaders and policymakers fixated on fighting the supposed ills of carbon emissions because of models predicting dangerous climate change have often drawn criticism for their use of carbon-spewing private jets.
During World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos between May 22, 2022, and May 26, 2022, 1,040 private jets flew in and out of airports serving Davos, according to a January report by Greenpeace. The number of jets going in and out of Davos doubled during that week, resulting in 9,700 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which equivalent to roughly 350,000 average cars.
Majority of these jets were attributed to private flights undertaken by participants for the WEF meeting. Klara Maria Schenk, a transport campaigner for Greenpeace’s European mobility campaign, called the private jet use at Davos a “distasteful masterclass of hypocrisy,” given that the WEF claims to be committed to the Paris Climate Target of keeping climate warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“Davos has a perfectly adequate railway station, still these people can’t even be bothered to take the train for a trip as short as 21 [kilometers]. Do we really believe that these are the people to solve the problems the world faces?” Ms. Schenk said.
It was much the same story for the 2021 COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, where about 400 or so global leaders showed up on private jets, according to the Daily Mail.
"All this for 'climate' negotiations that obviously could have been done just as easily over Zoom or something similar for the negligible results that emerge," award-winning novelist Roger L. Simon, a contributor to The Epoch Times, wrote in an op-ed titled "The Ludicrous Hypocrisy of Climate Conferences Continues."
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One time during this event, I found myself waiting endlessly for one of the panel discussions to start, wondering what in the Sam Hill this was really all about and what I was doing there, when, out of boredom, I struck up a conversation with the man next to me.
It turned out he was the representative from the Maldives.
I had struck gold! The Maldives were the very center of controversy then because the rising sea level from warming was said to be about to put their Pacific islands permanently underwater.
Trying to be sympathetic, I told the man I had heard about their plight, but his response was to start laughing.
He explained to my puzzled look there was no threat to his island whatsoever. They had had periodic high tides forever, but nothing that a few sandbags couldn’t handle.
So why was he here? This time he looked at me strangely. How could I possibly not know?
For the money, he said.
Diogenes had found his honest man.
some years back (2009), I attended the Copenhagen version of this conference (COP15), reporting then for PJ Media, and had a helluva time staying awake during the extraordinarily tedious speeches.
I had an equally difficult time staying warm, especially when outside, because that conference on “global warming” took place in a record-breaking blizzard, the likes of which I had never seen, although I was a graduate of Dartmouth College and had spent four years in the snows of New Hampshire.
Of course, we were immediately informed by our hosts that such weather was—you will be shocked to hear—just further proof of imminent climate change. Freezing weather meant climate change. Sweltering weather meant climate change. And perfect weather for months on end with not a cloud in the sky meant the most serious climate change of all.
Or something like that.
Yep. Thus MY plan to combat global warming:
ban private jets
ban yachts
ban an individual owning more than 3000 square feet of air conditioned/heated living space.
I know this will be a terrible sacrifice and will hurt us all but we all have to pitch in and do our share. Save Da Erf!
PS you’re just selfish and evil and a bad person if you disagree with any of this.
Guess which group has to sacrifice for the other group.
The top 1% need to be restricted on the amount of beef they can consume and the use of gas appliances including stoves and grills.
This has nothing to do with reducing CO2 emissions. This is about limiting personal movement and reducing prosperity. Eventually it will be about depopulation.
Hey, give the elites a break. They just are tired of rubbing elbows with smelly Walmart shoppers so when they have moved them back in caves eating algae and bugs they can enjoy going where they want and doing what they want.
I really don’t think of these people as elite, but rather annoying paranoid narcissists.
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Hypocrisy is a hallmark of the Left. Beneath everything they say there is a thick layer of hypocrisy.
“I really don’t think of these people as elite”
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Oh but they certainly do. They believe they are intellectually and morally superior to everyone else, and therefore tell the rest of the world how to live.
Until they give up their carbon consuming ways and live in modest homes without heat and electricity, and modern conveniences, and until they walk everywhere, and give up their wealth to pay for their beloved agenda personally, I don’t wanna hear anything those hypocrites have to say
Even after they should do all those things, I still don’t wanna hear anything from them because its all a massive get richer quicker scam for the elites
Global elites never mention anything about carbon emissions from commercial air liners emit daily because they use them.
Other face hid
How does that measure up to industrial, commercial and other non-personal releases? ...to the extent that any of this matters.
Yeah, the Maldives aren’t a bare mountain peak poking out of the ocean, but rather sand pushed up to form an island. If water rises, so will the Maldives. The problem in the Maldives is that water is being pumped out of the ground inland and the sand subsides.
And, this is how you know that only the morons in the middle think CO2 has any deleterious effect. On anything.
Just actor Leo DiCrapio use of yachts and jets are enough to cause to earth to be on fire let alone Al Gore and John Kerry etc.
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