The Art Of Hypocrisy
Bonzo
November 09, 2007 12:00am
THE telling thing about the global warming faith is that it's preached
almost entirely by hypocrites. As you're about to see in tropical
technicolour next month.
You see, more often than not a global warming prophet is a frequent
flyer
who's just stepped out of business class to demand you cut the very
gases
he's just blasted out the back of his jet.
Or her jet, of course. I'm thinking here of Laurie David, a producer of
Al
Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, the indoctrination tape for the warming
faithful which demands we Use Less to save the world from choking on our
filthy emissions.
As it turned out, Use Less David was not quite so eager to Use Less
herself,
confessing: "Yes, I take a private plane on holiday a couple of times a
year."
But she had the proper attitude: "I feel horribly guilty about it."
And since global warming is more about how you feel than what you'll do,
that made it all right.
Until this week I thought David - or Gore, who uses more electricity
each
month in just one of his three homes than the average American family
uses
in a year - couldn't be beaten for the title of Grand Hypocrite of the
Warming Faith.
Until this week they'd beaten off even the most shameless of
challengers,
including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who attends celebrity global
warming conferences to debate ways to make suburban types dim their
lights,
despite having a wide-body Boeing 767-200 for his private plane.
Australia's finest warming worriers also failed to topple Gore and
David,
despite a great late effort by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, the ABC's celebrity
science spruiker now campaigning for the Climate Change Coalition.
Kruszelnicki's coalition demands we "introduce energy efficiency
standards
for motor vehicles", yet Dr Karl chooses to drive a V8 Holden Monaro -
but
only on the freeway, he insists.
And no doubt he also feels properly guilty, so that's all right, too.
Mind you, our Alarmist of the Year, Tim Flannery, did come close for his
consistent record of demanding we cut the emissions that "can threaten
civilisation as we know it", while showing few signs of cutting his
extravagant own.
His more recent - and best - effort has been to release yet another
doom-preaching book (sales please!) in which he describes his eager
travels
by jet to conferences, treks and luxury resorts on tropical islands.
Some extracts: "I left Europe to return home via Africa. A mate had
started
an ecotourism venture in Kenya and had asked me to come along on a
14-day
safari ... my next trip was to Necker Island in the Caribbean.
"The place is a tropical paradise and we stayed in a pavilion perched
above
a reef ... I left Necker Island for Borneo ... I'd promised to lead a
group
on a trek up Mount Kinabalu in Sabah."
And so on, with Flannery criss-crossing our skies with contrails, while
sitting in business class composing yet another speech demanding we cut
what
he's busily belching. Or else.
What is it with global warming prophets and jets? And luxury? And
tropical
islands?
I ask because what Flannery is doing on his luxurious lonesome, entire
jet-loads of global warming activists are about to do in a gluttonous
mass-orgy - the most spectacular demonstration of warming hypocrisy yet
seen.
The gold medal performance.
I'm talking about the United Nations' Climate Change Conference 2007, to
be
held next month at Bali's luxury tourism precinct of Nusa Dua.
How wonderful it will be there in balmy Bali - with its beaches, its
shopping, its tennis courts, its golf courses, its balmy weather, its
five-star service and its high-minded chatter about how to make people
back
home go without for the sake of the planet.
No wonder the conference has been extended to last a leisurely
fortnight.
Even better for UN staff, they may travel to Bali in business class,
where
no doubt they'll bump into many other delegates off for a little
pre-Christmas conference cheer, courtesy, in most cases, of taxpayers.
Now guess how many people are jetting to this Balinese paradise to
demand we
cut our emissions?
Let me quote a newspaper report in which Indonesian Environment Minister
Rachmat Witoelar gives the startling numbers: "He said 189 countries to
be
represented by some 10,000 delegates and 2500 foreign journalists had
officially registered to take part."
That's right, 12,500.
To fly to a conference that will cost more than $70 million to stage.
I can hear the oinking from here. This gathering of jet-set hypocrites
is
guaranteed not to cut emissions, but increase them, Al Gore-style.
In fact, I've worked it out on the Climate Care emissions calculator:
just
flying all those people to the conference and back will send around
30,000
tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air.
That's more than the greenhouse gases that 7000 family cars typically
emit
in an entire year.
You'd think these warming alarmists would set an example by staying at
home
and, say, video-conferencing instead.
If they really believed our gases were killing the planet, that is.
Al Gore could even have arranged something for them, being a director of
Apple.
But the new green faith was always for the privileged to enjoy, and the
masses to endure, wasn't it?
Hypocrisy is too small a word for so monstrous a circus.
If it wasn't for the fact the planet actually hasn't warmed for nine
years
now, I'd cry.
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Regards
Bonzo
"If the atmosphere was a 100 story building, our annual anthropogenic
CO2
contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first
floor"
D'Aleo
"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for
anything except for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree
panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
"What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the
only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes"
Dr. Richard Lindzen
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately
forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen