Posted on 11/01/2021 12:00:20 PM PDT by Rummyfan
- MailOnline watched as plane after plane of dignitaries landed in Glasgow and Edinburgh for COP26 meeting
- Prince Albert of Monaco was among those choosing to fly private - according to an analysis of flight records
- Bank of America, which in PR documents boasts of its 'commitment to sustainability', owned one of the jets
- Prince Charles is among those travelling by non-commercial plane from G20 in Rome, MailOnline can reveal
- Boris Johnson is kicking off COP26 summit today exhorting world leaders to back up their talk with action
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' £48million Gulf Stream has led a 400-strong parade of private jets into COP25 including Prince Albert of Monaco, scores of royals and dozens of 'green' CEOs - as an extraordinary traffic jam forced empty planes to fly 30 miles to find space to park.
Some environmental activists at the COP26 climate conference will be urging others to cut down on air travel and eat less meat, but little has been said about the billionaires flying in on their own planes on routes already served by commercial airlines.
Meanwhile, as the super-rich were whisked away into waiting limos, hundreds of less fortunate delegates were left unable to get to Glasgow after brutal storms crippled rail links, forcing travellers to sleep on the floor of Euston station in London.
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The carbon footprint of climate warriors us immense. Someone should show them how Skype works to save the planet.
I wonder if there are parking issues for 400 additional planes?
What is their plan for movement when they eliminate all fuels?
Has anyone actually gone into using their brains on that?
They could conduct this same session via Zoom.
These gatherings are just excuses for the "elite" to collude and plan their next thievery. And to party with hookers.
Pretty much the same reason our Congresspeople continue to travel to Washington D.C. like it's 1789 or something. They could do the vast majority of their work staying in their home districts. But where's the fun in that?
Most of them wanted to get elected ... so they could get away from their home districts!
Of course they don't want to spend August in DC either.
Communists are always good at solving problems which don’t exist. Not so good at solving real problems.
400 private jets?
I’m surprised that Glasgow and Edinburgh had room for them all.
I think legions of Americans — more every day — are finally realizing just how antiquated, ineffective and senselessly expensive their government is. President Trump pointed the way on that, one of the big reasons the denizens of D.C. wanted him gone.
All they seem to do is spend our money and take a substantial cut to line their own pockets. Meanwhile nothing gets fixed or done. Schools are an abysmal failure, the infrastructure is falling apart, they are trying to turn the military into a social engineering lab, and dont seem to care - even aid and abet - the rise of China.
“Communists are always good at solving problems which don’t exist. Not so good at solving real problems”.
Communists are good at CREATING problems and never solve them. And they make existing/real problems worse.
Capacity for 400? No they don’t have capacity, which means they had to disperse and FLY to other airports, THEN return to Glasgow to pick up their precious privileged and return them to their castles.
They know too well that zoom cocktail parties are for the working class. They want their wine and caviar in person.
You’d think some of the could have planepooled.
I wonder which one of them let Greta hitch a ride?
Read later.
The rich will buy synthetic aviation fuels made from thin air literally sucked from the CO2 in the air.
https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/offerings/renewable-energy/hydrogen-solutions.html
The big boys are on board.
https://www.chevron.com/-/media/chevron/operations/documents/chevron-alternative-jet-fuels.pdf
In smaller quantities for the rich, biojet fuels also are available. When you own a 65 million dollar jet the difference in fuel costs from $7 gal for JetA vs $9 gal for BiojetA is not even an afterthought. The rich will keep flying regardless.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2020.00110/full
Airbus is developing hydrogen fueled aircraft that the rich certainly could fly with.
https://www.airbus.com/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/zeroe.html
In Europe hydrogen will be at cost parity in 2025 sooner with the current run up in prices for jet fuel worldwide.
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