And hey, you’re gonna leave some footprints! That’s what the U.N. Summit on Climate Change always teaches us. As the snappily-named CBS Political Hotsheet reports:
To hear world leaders and others addressing the United Nations Summit on Climate Change, the threat could not be more real and the need more urgent to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
But in stark contrast to the earnest statements is the carbon footprint associated with their gathering.
It happens every autumn: midtown Manhattan becomes the motorcade capital of the world. Each foreign leader in town has a convoy of vehicles. Some of them, like President Obama’s motorcade, are 20-to-30 vehicles in length. It’s so long – it seems that when the front of it reaches the U.N., the back end is still back at his hotel.
Exacerbating the annual exercise in diplomatic gridlock are police actions, blocking intersections and closing streets for security to facilitate motorcade movements. It renders countless other vehicles immobile while waiting for motorcades to pass, their engines idling but still blowing exhaust into the midtown air.
Does it undermine the goal of the climate change summit and cause the pledges of environmental concern to ring hollow?
I’m gonna go out on a global warming-ravaged limb and say: Yes!
Haven’t these guys heard of teleconferencing? Heck, they could get as much done (i.e., nothing) by setting up an e-mail list. But then they wouldn’t get to ride around in fancy cars and give big important speeches and generally party it up. It’s like the Oscars, except even less useful.
Oh, and WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE, etc.
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Shades of the Demotivational poster that reads, “CONTRACTING: When there’s no solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem”. Or words to that effect.
The UN is nothing more than a giant Mafia with diplomatic immunity; it’s full of genocidal thugs and dictators. So obviously we should listen carefully to everything they say.
How about we remove a huge global polluter and move the UN from the US to “insert third world country here”, and that way they can host them for the next 50 years.
This one just makes me giggle
It has become something of a joke hasn’t it AAW.
At least someone at the UN sees through the hot air…
Czech President Vaclav Klaus. He referred to it as a “propagandistic exercise where 13-year-old girls from some far-away country perform a pre-rehearsed poem”.
Yeh.
Although this is like shooting fish (or should I say sheep) in a barrel (either way, suck it, PETA), I also wonder if all of the food and beverages for this Summit were locally sourced? I can’t imagine they would go to France for Champagne, Russia for caviar, Japan for Kobe beef, Alaska for salmon, or Scotland for whiskies. Right? Lentil soup and tap water all around? Oh, wait.
…the G-8 Food Shortage Summit, in which attendees enjoyed an eight-course, 19-dish dinner prepared by 25 chefs…
Nevermind.
Vaclav Klaus – I knew there was a reason I liked that guy.
MC – The Eastern Europeans are quite simply ‘the ‘ as the kids say. They lived under Soviet domination for 50 years, so they’re pretty effecient at cutting through the bull, and unlike the rest of Europe, actually see freedom and personal responsibility as GOOD things.
Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, ect. are most likely going to be some of our closest allies in the next generation, and I couldn’t be happier.
Does any nation really care what the UN says anymore? Seriously?
And like Scott F. said, any nation that was ground down under the boot of tyranny knows for a fact freedom and personal responsibility are good things. Its appreciation of what you now have compared to what you did have.
Sort of the opposite of what they are trying to shaft us with in this country right now… and that is meant as sarcastically as I can make it.
Geez, Simon. It’s not the same until you say WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.
The UN is claiming China is a non-polluting role model for the US, put Libya on the Human Rights Council/Commission aka the Denounce Israel Club, let the Libyan president turn a 15 minute speech into a 90 minute lecture and uses at best 50 percent of donations to UNICEF to actually help children, the rest goes to “administration” aka enriching adult beneficiaries of nepotism. Why anyone takes them seriously is beyond me. Corruption is rampant, and like most groups of people with a lot of political power, the UN seems to have little interest in actually addressing real problems. Example: They won’t send peacekeepers into war-torn countries until peace is established, but peace can’t be established without outside troops. So rather than send in soldiers to stop violent conflicts and human rights abuses in places like Rwanda or Sierra Leone, the UN sits on their hands and yells at Israel for daring to exist.
The only thing that is remotely good about the UN is the humanitarian programs, but as noted, about half of every dollar spent goes to administration. Someone has to run the programs, but if Doctors Without Borders (DOCTORS!!!) can keep administrative expenses to 15 percent, anyone can. Clean up the graft and greed!
AllyKat hit it right on the head. The UN has almost nothing to recommend it for any useful purpose. And we’re looking at upcoming attempts to ratify the UN Convention on the “Rights of the Child”, a disingenuously-named POS if there ever was one. The UNCRC will shoehorn international law between parent and child, making it an order of magnitude harder to teach, discipline, and otherwise raise your kids. Even the supposed health benefits have been shown to be bogus, in nations that ratified the UNCRC years ago. The single argument in favor of ratifying it: “Everyone else has”. We’re trying to teach our kids not to succumb to peer pressure, and our GOVERNMENT is going counter to that, while insisting they know better than we do how to raise our own kids.
Despite claims to the contrary, under the UNCRC, homeschooling has already been curtailed in the UK. In countries that have ratified it, the UNCRC makes it legally sketchy to try and influence your own children in terms of religion, association (meaning that under the UNCRC, you have no say over their associations with gangs, cults and pedophiles, to name a few) and education. Corporal punishment: Right out. Whether or not you personally favor spanking (for kids–I don’t want to know about your Friday nights) legislating child-rearing approaches is a slippery slope at best.
As far as I’m concerned, the UN should go the way of the Berlin Wall.
Well, at least Algore is $92 richer…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554700,00.html
@Scott F. “Poland”-If you check history they were here beside us in 1776. I realize the actual study of American History might make some revisionists uncomfortable…..
I’m thinking we need a new classification:
self absorbus hypocrita Buffoonus
The Greek is shorter tho- actor: hypocrites
In other news-
Lily Allen accused of mixtape ‘piracy’
Thursday, September 24 2009, 11:02am EDT
By Mayer Nissim, Entertainment Reporter
“Lily Allen has been accused of pirating other artists’ work as part of two promotional “mixtapes” she made earlier in her career.”
continued
Digital Spy
http://www.digitalspy.com/music/a178955/lily-allen-accused-of-mixtape-piracy.html
Scott F., I’m part Hungarian and part Czech, so of course Central Europeans are *awesome.*
Let’s hope Pres. Obama’s recent decision to scrap missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic doesn’t put a big crimp in that alliance.
Right, after this week Central Europeans have got to be saying, “Wha—-?!”, after all they’ve been through in history. But…that never happened according to these thugs.
Awesome! Watch this – a reporter asks some ‘inconvenient’ questions of some celebrities at the premiere of a pro-global warming movie, ‘The Age Of Stupid’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-cvK9vxA6M&feature=player_embedded#t=76
Oooh, that’s good. Thank you!
That fella’s ‘competing’ movie is here: http://noteviljustwrong.com/