Posted on 12/14/2009 6:14:07 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The Copenhagen climate talks will generate more carbon emissions than any previous climate conference, equivalent to the annual output of over half a million Ethiopians, figures commissioned by hosts Denmark show.
Delegates, journalists, activists and observers from almost 200 countries have gathered at the Dec 7-18 summit and their travel and work will create 46,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, most of it from their flights.
This would fill nearly 10,000 Olympic swimming pools, and is the same amount produced each year by 2,300 Americans or 660,000 Ethiopians -- the vast difference is due to the huge gap in consumption patterns in the two countries -- according to U.S. government statistics about per person emissions in 2006.
Despite efforts by the Danish government to reduce the conference's carbon footprint, around 5,700 tonnes of carbon dioxide will be created by the summit and a further 40,500 tonnes created by attendees' flights to Copenhagen.
The figure for the flights was calculated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), while the domestic carbon footprint from the summit was calculated by accountants Deloitte, said Deloitte consultant Stine Balslev.
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But isn’t it more important that they “spread awareness”? Because no one in Denmark has ever heard of Global Warming....
I believe it was the Wall Street Journal where I read the largest limo company in Denmark rented out 1200 limos for the conference. 1200! And he needed more.
Guess how many were hybrids. Just five.
Hypocrites.
“to fill 10,000 olympic sized swimming pools or the same ammount produced by 2300 Americans or 660,000 Ethiopians”....Reuters... I’m sooo tired of “cute junk science” conjured by wire services allowing this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404288/posts
The whole basis is a fraudulent claim about infa-red effects on CO2 which is debunked here
http://www.theusmat.com/
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