More than 400 private jets carrying politicians and business executives to the COP26 conference belched out 13,000 tons of carbon dioxide, exceeding the emissions of 1,600 average Scots for a full year, according to an estimate by the UK’s Sunday Mail. Private jets are very prestigious, but it is difficult to avoid the hypocrisy of using one while claiming to be fighting climate change,” environmental activist Matt Finch told the newspaper.
Heads of states and other leaders from across the globe were among the private jet-setters – from Japan to India to Israel to even the UK itself. US President Joe Biden is arrived on Air Force One on day 2 of the summit.
That trip followed the American president’s flight from Washington to Rome for that weekend’s G20 summit, where leaders pledged “meaningful and effective” climate action but offered few specifics on how they will keep temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Biden deployed a massive motorcade, an 85-car parade of gas-guzzling vehicles, that chaperoned his visit to the Vatican on Friday before the summit to meet with Pope Francis. Biden touted more than $500 billion in proposed US spending on environmental programs when he gets to Glasgow.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso called for detailed information on the carbon footprint of Joe Biden’s trip to the COP climate Summit in Scotland, labelling it “bloated” and “counterproductive”.2
Critics blasted the COP26 participants for professing to fight climate change while doing nothing to pare their enormous carbon footprints. “Every world leader or dignitary that arrives to COP26 by private jet is an eco-hypocrite,” former member of the European parliament Nigel Farage said in a Twitter post.
Britain’s Prince Charles and Prime Minister Boris Johnson were among those targeted for criticism, inasmuch as they took private jets to Rome and Scotland. Johnson also drew political pushback in June, when he traveled to Cornwall by private jet for the G7 summit rather than taking a train from London.
According to Finch’s Transport and Environment NGO group, CO2 output from private jets is soaring, which helps account for the fact that 1% of the population generates half of global aviation emissions. Flying by private jet emits about 40 times as much CO2 per passenger as commercial air travel, according to a study by Lund University.
Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, has been another alleged environmental hypocrite for globe-trotting by private jet while warning that “we cannot afford further delay” in solving the climate crisis. His family’s Gulfstream GIV-SP reportedly emitted an estimated 116 metric tons of CO2 in the 11 months leading up to Biden’s inauguration in January – equivalent to the annual emissions of 25 passenger cars.
Kerry’s explanation for traveling by private jet might resonate with many of the COP26 dignitaries. After traveling to Iceland by private plane to receive an environmental award in 2019, he said in an interview that there was really no other option for someone like him.
“The time it takes me to get somewhere, I can’t sail across the ocean,” Kerry said, without mentioning such options as commercial airlines. “I have to fly, meet with people and get things done.” He added, “If you offset your carbon, it’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.”
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Biden Emitted more Carbon himself than Air Force One
According to Camilla, Biden kept “breaking wind” right in front of her as she attempted to make small talk with him.
As the Daily Mail notes, an insider claims that “Camilla was taken aback to hear Biden break wind as they made polite small talk at the global climate change gathering in Glasgow last week.”
‘It was long and loud and impossible to ignore,’ the source said. ‘Camilla hasn’t stopped talking about it.’
Thelibertydaily.com reports: It would be easy to make a crude joke or engage in clever wordplay over the incident, but I’ll pass. Joe Biden is no joke. He’s a nightmare and the longer he’s allowed to continue his charade of being president, the worse it gets for America.
Poor Greta
Climate change believer and activist Greta Thunberg said that the COP26 climate summit is a failure, lambasting the U.N.-brokered talks for turning into a public relations exercise. “It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place,” Thunberg said.
“The COP has turned into a PR event, where leaders are giving beautiful speeches and announcing fancy commitments and targets, while behind the curtains governments of the Global North countries are still refusing to take any drastic climate action.”
She was speaking on stage shortly after a strike organized by “Fridays For Future” saw thousands march 1.6 miles from Kelvingrove Park to George Park in Glasgow’s city center — less than 2 miles from where the COP26 event is being held.3
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano:
“The UN climate summit’s failure is good news for humanity, science, and a rational energy policy. Despite the tears over the UN’s latest climate failure, the would-be planet savers will continue to strive to regulate and control every aspect of human endeavors from the food we eat, to the energy we use to our transportation to our housing and our economies. While we can savor the moment of this failure by the UN climate forces, we must remain vigilant in defeating the climate agenda.”
President Biden’ climate envoy John Kerry tried to declare victory, but the greens are livid.
Swedish climate scold Greta Thunberg tweeted, “The #COP26 is over. Here’s a brief summary: Blah, blah, blah.”
Guardian climate reporter John Vidal wrote, “If could have been worse, but our leaders failed us at COP26. That’s the truth of it.”
What’s got them in a tizzy?
Minutes before nearly 200 nations adopted the final agreement, India, working with China, stepped in to protect coal.
Kerry has been making much of the fact that The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first climate agreement to actually name a fossil fuel. However, India amended the agreement to change “phase out” of coal to “phase down.” For China and India this actually means INCREASE coal.
Both nations are expanding coal burning as fast as their economies can go. “Phase down” is the verbiage China suckered John Kerry into when China and the U.S. penned a side climate deal last week. Full text at CFACT.org. China promised Kerry to maybe think about phasing coal down during its 15th five year plan which doesn’t even start until 2026.
Here’s more of what has the climate-Left gnashing their teeth. The Glasgow Climate Pact:
- Names coal, but not oil or gas;
- Moves deadline for nations to submit new emissions reduction plans from 2025 to 2030;
- Does not fund reparations for “loss and damage” when poor nations experience natural disasters;
- Does not mandate ongoing public climate finance;
- Contains weasel words such as “unabated” fossil fuels and “inefficient” subsidies leaving plenty of wiggle room;
- Climate computer models project current emissions commitments leave the world warming 2.4 degrees C;
- UN Secretary General António Guterres said limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C is “on life support.”
Disappointment on the Left is a sure indicator that the free world dodged a bullet. However, there’s plenty of danger still lurking in the Glasgow Agreement. Carbon carpetbaggers came away smiling.
The sums of money changing hands in the name of climate are staggering. John Kerry is talking about $130 TRILLION dollars, not only through government mandates and spending, but through private finance. Kerry’s true constituents: the people selling subsidized wind, solar, batteries, offsets, carbon credits and the rest are ecstatic.
They may not know how to alter the temperature of the Earth, but they do know how to make a buck.
Former Harvard U. Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl:
“The format was the same one that we remembered in dozens of previous summits: 30,000 parasites arrived by private jets and have bullšited about the evil of CO2 emissions for two weeks. The content of their talks was just nonsensical irrelevant gibberish, there was no agreement about anything, the talks had to go to overtime, like always, and some “result” was announced afterwards…These statements are just would-be prophesies by idiots who think that they are about 1,000 times more important and powerful than they are. …
Billions of dollars were wasted for another farce, the CO2 emissions created by these morons are obviously the least of the problems because there exists nothing such as a global problem with the climate, let alone one caused by CO2, and even if there were a problem, the subtraction of carbon dioxide’s contribution, at most 0.01-0.02 °C, from the warming per year would clearly do nothing to avoid the problems.
Do you really need to move 30,000 morons across the world and store them in hotels for 2 weeks if the only outcome is just another hateful remark about fossil fuels which is completely detached from reality? ..
The degeneration of the society has led to the birth of an entire extraordinarily annoying and idiotic parasitic class that believes that they are doing a very important work e.g. if they fly to a distant hotel for 2 weeks, babble nonsense that reveals their complete scientific illiteracy…”
Paul Homewood:
“India along with a host of like minded countries knew that they could not run their economies without coal and other fossil fuels, never mind grow them and relieve poverty. Faced with the whole Agreement being lost, Alok Sharma and the UN organisers backed down, and replaced the words “phase-out” with “phase-down”. Just one word changed, but its effect was devastating for the Agreement…The rest of the Agreement is pretty weak and ineffectual as well.
“It is full of terms such as “urges”, “requests” and “invites”, which mean there is no obligation on anybody to do anything. The can was kicked down the road again in 2015 at Paris, when developing countries were given carte blanche to carry on increasing emissions…We have seen the beginning of the end for the UN’s climate agenda. There will no doubt be many more COPs to come.
“And there will be annual warnings from Prince Charles that we have 12 more months to save the planet. But the writing is now on the wall. Developing countries around the world are standing up and refusing to cut back on fossil fuels, because they know they have no alternative if they want to grow their economies and give their people a better life.”
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