Global Warming Summits Cause Global Warming
No joking.
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg)—Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.
The delegates each will produce an average 4.07 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or CO2, to reach the resort island 950 kilometers (600 miles) from Jakarta, according to estimates e- mailed to Bloomberg by the UN agency holding the conference.
Some of the 187 nations participating in the two-week forum promised to offset their so-called carbon footprint by planting trees or buying emission credits.
The offsets thing is such a crock. When you emit carbon, you emit carbon. Planting a tree isn’t going to change that.
You’d think these people could all get together via the internet or something. Or at least pick a somewhat less remote part of the globe to go to. But then that’d mean they wouldn’t be able to go to Bali.
And what good is holding a global warming conference to talk about the coming environmental apocalypse if you can’t do it from a cushy resort on the sun-drenched beaches of some tropical paradise?
