While we wait for the Copenhagen climate climax on Thursday, featuring Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe among those who would lead us to a low-carbon world, there’s time to peruse some of the tid-bits offered up by the UN to the little folk looking in online. Thus, on the UNFCCC main page, do we find such items as the tonnage of food being consumed by the thousands of delegates at Denmark’s Bella Center conference facilities. The UN description omits the caviar, and probably a few other items enjoyed in the stratosphere around “Seal-the-Deal” Ban Ki-Moon and the other loftiest eminences. But we do learn that by the time they finish their labors amid the snows of Denmark, the global uberlords of eco-everything will have consumed:
10,000 organic chickens, 50 tons of potatoes, two tons of couscous and five ton[s] of fish, prepared by 100 chefs and served by 400 waitressing staff.
OK, let’s state the obvious. It might seem that if these folks had the integrity to practice what they preach, they’d be back home, with the lights low, videoconferencing in, while eating only vegetables. But I guess that would leave 100 unemployed Danish chefs and 400 workless waitresses. Anything for the cause.
All these self-indulgent consumers in Copenhagen, standing around hand-wringing. The poor place is practically sinking under all their emissions, verbal and otherwise.
Many of those who pontificate on behalf of “The Earth” (the Earth is not amused) have flown in on their carbon spilling private jets, Prince Charles among them.
At least the Goracle got a little comeuppance, it’s not easy, since he assiduously avoids debating anyone who actually knows something (other than facile generalizations) about “the climate”.
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Listening to Hugo Chavez talk for his allotted 5 minutes (but he talked for 45), BASHING Obama, the was in Afghanistan, his Nobel Peace prize, and other off-subject topics. I want to know how much wine was consumed. They should have put one of those organic chickens in his equally big mouh to shut that blabber up… yappity yappity yap, all the time.
Don’t we provide most of the funds for the UN? Isn’t it grand that Obama paid up our back “dues?”
If he hadn’t done that, just think, they might have had to cancel the Caviar!
Did we also pay for the transportation of all those who hope to take the rest of our wealth?
As Philip the Naz once said ” I would come back as a virus”, wouldn’t it be fun to come back to copen as a binary bioweapon. A sort of plague attached to salmonella (organic chicken type of course)..