So, it’s looking like there will be more damage than help from Copenhagen next week. A huge carbon footprint without much possibility of action. Typical.

Talk about your global warming . . . When an estimated 16,500 delegates, activists and reporters descend upon Copenhagen Monday for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, a lot of hot air will follow.
The U.N. estimates the 12-day conference will create 40,584 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, roughly the same amount as the carbon emissions of Morocco in 2006.
Those greenhouse gas emissions are comprised of two parts: international travel and local emissions from hotels and transportation venues. Organizers will also reportedly lay 900 kilometers of computer cable and 50,000 square miles of carpet, along with more than 200,000 meals to be served and 200,000 cups of coffee.

If they really believed what they say, why are they continuing to meet in person? Why generate so much carbon flying private jets? Sorry, their actions are shouting at us that they don’t really believe their own rhetoric.

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