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“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
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In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
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Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
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Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
The Mayans sacrificed thousands to the climate gods.
QUOTE="Sheriff Joe, post: 234541, member: 1585"
How is that Paris Accord doing?
How is that European military doing?
How is macron doing?
Where the fuck is macron?
WAR IN PARIS: RIOTS ROCK CITY...
Tear gas, mass arrests...
https://www.france24.com/en/2018120...ned-paris-france-braces-new-anti-macron-riots
/QUOTE
The French have their " Best " man looking for him !
How is that Paris Accord doing?
How is that European military doing?
How is macron doing?
Where the fuck is macron?
WAR IN PARIS: RIOTS ROCK CITY...
Tear gas, mass arrests...
https://www.france24.com/en/2018120...ned-paris-france-braces-new-anti-macron-riots
/QUOTE
The French have their " Best " man looking for him !
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California State Board Votes to Approve Bay-Delta Plan, Restrict Water to Farmers
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California’s State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) voted Wednesday to approve the Bay-Delta plan, which will re-allocate water from farms and cities to the environment in an effort to restore dwindling fish numbers.
The plan will require tributary rivers within the San Joaquin watershed to maintain an average water level of 40% of “unimpeded flow” — that is, the flow that would exist without human activity — during the spring season.
The result is that less water — “billions of gallons,” according to the Fresno Bee — will be available to the farming communities of the Central Valley, as well as to San Francisco and its suburbs, which rely on water from the area.
Last month, outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown and incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the SWRCB to delay its vote by a month to allow time for local water authorities to reach voluntary settlement agreements (VSAs) as an alternative to the new plan. In the interim, several local irrigation districts did, in fact, commit to investing in conservation and environmental projects that would theoretically help restore fish populations without giving up quite so much water.
But as the Bee reports, the SWRCB — all of whose members were appointed by Brown, and who are thought to be partial to environmental groups — passed the plan anyway “to put pressure on a group of holdout water agencies.”
The Trump administration has promised to take legal action to block the plan, which may be moot as a result. Some environmental groups have criticized the Bay-Delta plan for not going far enough.
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Times running out. They have to travel fast. Of course it make you question the power of a 97% consensus in the absence of a Private Jet.
I leave for a spell and you create a new screen name? What was wrong with the old one? Tired of getting owned in the kitchen?
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DECEMBER 14, 2018
Green New Deal Is Bad Deal for All Americans
By Chris Talgo
For close to a decade, the Left has looked at a “Green New Deal” as the onlysolution to supposed manmade climate change. According to the eco-Left, the Green New Deal -- a massive federal government stimulus program coupled with a rapid and total transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy -- is the only way to avert environmental doom.
Just last month, shortly after winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said, “We have 10 years left to plan and implement a Green New Deal before cataclysmic climate disaster.”
Although the Green New Deal would be a sweeping piece of legislation that reshapes all sectors of the U.S. economy, it primarily focuses on climate change. Here’s a taste of what the Green New Deal would do:
Green Business Investment
“Invest in green business by providing grants and low-interest loans to grow green businesses and cooperatives, with an emphasis on small, locally-based companies that keep the wealth created by local labor circulating in the community rather than being drained off to enrich absentee investors.”
Unfortunately, this federal funding fantasy would stifle the free market, which is the driving force behind most great innovations and technological revolutions. Not only is this plan subject to rampant corruption, it eliminates profit incentives and puts our economic future in the hands of federal bureaucrats.
Green Research Funds
“Prioritize green research by redirecting research funds from fossil fuels and other dead-end industries toward research in wind, solar and geothermal. We will invest in research in sustainable, nontoxic materials, closed-loop cycles that eliminate waste and pollution, as well as organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.”
Deeming fossil fuels a “dead-end industry” is dead wrong. Fossil fuels have increased prosperity and raised the standard of living everywhere they have been used. Additionally, U.S. carbon emissions have substantially reduced while fossil fuel usage has increased thanks to clean-burning technologies. Not only that, but this section of the Green New Deal gives the government unprecedented power to decide how Americans live their lives through funding research that would reshape where we live, how we live, what we eat, and more.
Green Employment
Green New Deal Is Bad Deal for All Americans
By Chris Talgo
For close to a decade, the Left has looked at a “Green New Deal” as the onlysolution to supposed manmade climate change. According to the eco-Left, the Green New Deal -- a massive federal government stimulus program coupled with a rapid and total transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy -- is the only way to avert environmental doom.
Just last month, shortly after winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said, “We have 10 years left to plan and implement a Green New Deal before cataclysmic climate disaster.”
Although the Green New Deal would be a sweeping piece of legislation that reshapes all sectors of the U.S. economy, it primarily focuses on climate change. Here’s a taste of what the Green New Deal would do:
Green Business Investment
“Invest in green business by providing grants and low-interest loans to grow green businesses and cooperatives, with an emphasis on small, locally-based companies that keep the wealth created by local labor circulating in the community rather than being drained off to enrich absentee investors.”
Unfortunately, this federal funding fantasy would stifle the free market, which is the driving force behind most great innovations and technological revolutions. Not only is this plan subject to rampant corruption, it eliminates profit incentives and puts our economic future in the hands of federal bureaucrats.
Green Research Funds
“Prioritize green research by redirecting research funds from fossil fuels and other dead-end industries toward research in wind, solar and geothermal. We will invest in research in sustainable, nontoxic materials, closed-loop cycles that eliminate waste and pollution, as well as organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.”
Green Employment
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Frienance is standing by the Spigot. Waiting for a phone call from AOC’s private jet.DECEMBER 14, 2018
Green New Deal Is Bad Deal for All Americans
By Chris Talgo
For close to a decade, the Left has looked at a “Green New Deal” as the onlysolution to supposed manmade climate change. According to the eco-Left, the Green New Deal -- a massive federal government stimulus program coupled with a rapid and total transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy -- is the only way to avert environmental doom.
Just last month, shortly after winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said, “We have 10 years left to plan and implement a Green New Deal before cataclysmic climate disaster.”
Although the Green New Deal would be a sweeping piece of legislation that reshapes all sectors of the U.S. economy, it primarily focuses on climate change. Here’s a taste of what the Green New Deal would do:
Green Business Investment
“Invest in green business by providing grants and low-interest loans to grow green businesses and cooperatives, with an emphasis on small, locally-based companies that keep the wealth created by local labor circulating in the community rather than being drained off to enrich absentee investors.”
Unfortunately, this federal funding fantasy would stifle the free market, which is the driving force behind most great innovations and technological revolutions. Not only is this plan subject to rampant corruption, it eliminates profit incentives and puts our economic future in the hands of federal bureaucrats.
Green Research Funds
“Prioritize green research by redirecting research funds from fossil fuels and other dead-end industries toward research in wind, solar and geothermal. We will invest in research in sustainable, nontoxic materials, closed-loop cycles that eliminate waste and pollution, as well as organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.”
Deeming fossil fuels a “dead-end industry” is dead wrong. Fossil fuels have increased prosperity and raised the standard of living everywhere they have been used. Additionally, U.S. carbon emissions have substantially reduced while fossil fuel usage has increased thanks to clean-burning technologies. Not only that, but this section of the Green New Deal gives the government unprecedented power to decide how Americans live their lives through funding research that would reshape where we live, how we live, what we eat, and more.
Green Employment
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The annual Leonid meteor shower will peak overnight as specks of material from Comet Swift-Tuttle strike Earth's atmosphere. A nearly full moon will make it harder than usual to see some of the meteors. But NASA says people who venture away from intense city lights should be able to see up to 10 meteors per hour, mostly between 11 p.m. and dawn. The meteors will be visible throughout the sky, so you don't have to concentrate on one area. Our suggestion: Find the darkest place possible, set up a lawn chair, give your eyes time to adjust to the dark, and simply scan the heavens.
Weather: The marine layer could form at the coast. But skies will be mostly clear...
Weather: The marine layer could form at the coast. But skies will be mostly clear...
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The Green Farce at Katowice
By Alex Alexiev
It is tempting to dismiss the just-ended environmental circus at Katowice as mere additional demonstration of Charles Mackay’s ‘madness of crowds,’syndrome, but this would mean missing its intensely political nature as a frontal assault on capitalism and the last great hope of the Left to do away with the hated free market. COP-24, as the Katowice cabal making the rules and declarations is known, was but the 24th iteration of the United Nations Climate Change Conference that was originally dedicated to fighting global warming until the name became inconvenient when temperatures refused to cooperate with the mantra. It is already clear that COP-24, like most of the previous confabs, will do nothing more than punt fighting the promised doom of us all to a future date.
Nonetheless, there is a qualitative difference to the latest green failure from previous times which give us reason to hope that it won’t be long before this latest exercise in environmental mimicry bites the dust for good. It was expressed in the refusal of the U.S. under President Trump to admit that America is evil incarnate and the refusal of developed nations to increase its emission targets. It is, therefore, worthwhile to recapitulate how we came to this point.
It all started back in 1995 and received its present shape when a ‘protocol’ was concocted by the environmental extremists running the U.N. at Kyoto in 1997. Then in 2015, in Paris, concrete steps in fighting global warming in the future were agreed upon. To come to an agreement, however putative, the organizers had to reconcile three types of countries with very different, if not irreconcilable, interests. Rich countries, countries that have a chance of becoming rich, and countries that were poor and are likely to remain so. And they did it brilliantly!
From the rich, who felt guilty for being rich, they extracted penance in the shape of promised payments for “adaptation, mitigation and compensation.” To those rapidly developing countries such as China and India, who are also the biggest polluters, they gave carte blanche to continue polluting to their hearts’ content, and to the poor they offered ‘money for nothing,’ as the song goes, and lots of it. The Green Climate Fund (to be funded by the rich) was supposed to distribute $100 billion per annum alone. Instead, it is now in a freefall.
As an additional hook for eager ‘environmentalists’ from the third world and elsewhere, they also offered an all-expenses-paid vacation to hardship locales like Paris, Cancun and Buenos Aires. No wonder prime venues for environmental activism such as Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Ivory Coast have responded so generously by sending 406, 237, and 191 delegates to Katowice respectively.
All of this virtue-signaling - some naysayers call it hypocrisy - was going along splendidly until reality interfered as it often does. No sooner did President Obama, who actually believes that the U.S. is rich because others are poor, finish his tenure did President Trump pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, which probably dooms it. Germany, this paragon of supposed ecological virtue, lavishly subsidized renewable energy until it managed to achieve the highest cost of electricity in Europe ($0.33 vs $0.13 in the U.S.), threatening its standards of living and industry both. At the same time, it failed to reach its loudly proclaimed emissions goals. Then President Emmanuel Macron of France, yet another great green wannabe, vowed to raise sharply the price of fuel, only to beat an ignominious retreat when the unwashed known as the people inexplicably rebelled.
By Alex Alexiev
It is tempting to dismiss the just-ended environmental circus at Katowice as mere additional demonstration of Charles Mackay’s ‘madness of crowds,’syndrome, but this would mean missing its intensely political nature as a frontal assault on capitalism and the last great hope of the Left to do away with the hated free market. COP-24, as the Katowice cabal making the rules and declarations is known, was but the 24th iteration of the United Nations Climate Change Conference that was originally dedicated to fighting global warming until the name became inconvenient when temperatures refused to cooperate with the mantra. It is already clear that COP-24, like most of the previous confabs, will do nothing more than punt fighting the promised doom of us all to a future date.
Nonetheless, there is a qualitative difference to the latest green failure from previous times which give us reason to hope that it won’t be long before this latest exercise in environmental mimicry bites the dust for good. It was expressed in the refusal of the U.S. under President Trump to admit that America is evil incarnate and the refusal of developed nations to increase its emission targets. It is, therefore, worthwhile to recapitulate how we came to this point.
It all started back in 1995 and received its present shape when a ‘protocol’ was concocted by the environmental extremists running the U.N. at Kyoto in 1997. Then in 2015, in Paris, concrete steps in fighting global warming in the future were agreed upon. To come to an agreement, however putative, the organizers had to reconcile three types of countries with very different, if not irreconcilable, interests. Rich countries, countries that have a chance of becoming rich, and countries that were poor and are likely to remain so. And they did it brilliantly!
From the rich, who felt guilty for being rich, they extracted penance in the shape of promised payments for “adaptation, mitigation and compensation.” To those rapidly developing countries such as China and India, who are also the biggest polluters, they gave carte blanche to continue polluting to their hearts’ content, and to the poor they offered ‘money for nothing,’ as the song goes, and lots of it. The Green Climate Fund (to be funded by the rich) was supposed to distribute $100 billion per annum alone. Instead, it is now in a freefall.
As an additional hook for eager ‘environmentalists’ from the third world and elsewhere, they also offered an all-expenses-paid vacation to hardship locales like Paris, Cancun and Buenos Aires. No wonder prime venues for environmental activism such as Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Ivory Coast have responded so generously by sending 406, 237, and 191 delegates to Katowice respectively.
All of this virtue-signaling - some naysayers call it hypocrisy - was going along splendidly until reality interfered as it often does. No sooner did President Obama, who actually believes that the U.S. is rich because others are poor, finish his tenure did President Trump pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, which probably dooms it. Germany, this paragon of supposed ecological virtue, lavishly subsidized renewable energy until it managed to achieve the highest cost of electricity in Europe ($0.33 vs $0.13 in the U.S.), threatening its standards of living and industry both. At the same time, it failed to reach its loudly proclaimed emissions goals. Then President Emmanuel Macron of France, yet another great green wannabe, vowed to raise sharply the price of fuel, only to beat an ignominious retreat when the unwashed known as the people inexplicably rebelled.
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Delingpole: Another UN Climate Summit Ends in Failure
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The UN’s latest climate summit in Katowice, Poland has ended in failure as usual. Also as usual the 60,000 plus delegates are putting a brave face on it, claiming that a last minute deal has been reached after tough negotiations and that important progress has been made.
If you believe the Guardian:
“This is a good agreement,” the European commissioner Miguel Cañete told the Guardian. “We have more to do but we can move forward now.”
Nicholas Stern, author of the seminal review of the economics of climate change, said: “This has been another summit of tough negotiations, but it has ultimately succeeded in its crucial primary task of agreeing the so-called rulebook for the Paris agreement.”
But a rather more honest take can be found in this annually updated report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Every UN Climate Summit, it notes, follows exactly the same formula.
The Hopes:
‘Three years after the Paris Agreement was adopted, the EU hopes that all parties in Katowice will show the commitment and determination necessary to secure an ambitious and comprehensive work programme.”
The Last Chance:
‘Katowice offers last chance to limit warming to 1.5◦C; countries must revise national plans at the upcoming climate conference’.
Time Is Running Out:
‘We’re running out of chances to save the planet from climate change.’
The Circus:
‘Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has long campaigned against climate change, is expected to draw crowds, while there are reports that other Hollywood celebrities will make an appearance as well.’
The Deadlock:
‘First day of ministerial meetings fails to resolve deadlock.’ (Indian Express)
The Breakthrough at Five Minutes to Midnight:
‘Climate negotiators reach an overtime deal to keep Paris pact alive.’
The Cold Light of Day:
‘UN climate accord ‘inadequate’ and lacks urgency, experts warn.’ (Guardian)
None of the facts on climate has changed since last year’s failed summit in Bonn, Germany. It remains as uncertain as ever that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are making any significant contribution to “climate change”.
So, to compensate for the ongoing failure of their doomsday models to predict ‘climate change’, the UN’s activist scientists, watermelon economists, and celebrity hangers on have simply ramped up the rhetoric.
Whispery-voiced, gorilla-hugging Malthusian Sir David Attenborough opened the show by warning that the world was coming close to its end:
“If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
Not to be outdone, Al Gore did his best ever Prophet Jeremiah impersonation, by warning of “hell on earth” and a new “dark age” if the planet’s leaders failed to take the necessary action including “ubiquitous” draconian population control of the kind that has caused such misery in India and China.
Gore rehearsed the usual litany of climate doom claims – as well as introducing a new one, specially tailored for his local Polish audience.
As the New American reports:
For instance, he blamed global warming for civil war in Syria. He blamed “air pollution” for making Polish children dumber, dishonestly seeking to connect CO2, also known as the gas of life, to actual pollution. He even claimed global warming would make allergies worse. “98% of European cities could experience worse droughts by 2050,” Gore claimed. “Half of all the animals in all the world have gone since the 1970s!” he fumed. “Is that OK?” Gore showed scary images of ice melting in Greenland in the spring, as if there were something unusual about that. He also played a clip of a nuclear bomb exploding for emphasis. And pointing to the hurricane that hit Puerto Rico, Gore blamed alleged man-made warming, and said the response was an example of “environmental racism.”
But the world is moving on from the great climate scare story. As we reported last week, a new climate realist bloc – led by President Trump’s USA with fire support from Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait – is refusing even to pay lip service to the UN’s scaremongering. This resulted in the embarrassment whereby the UN summit was unable to adopt its own scaremongering report produced for it by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Meanwhile the world’s largest polluter, China, is building 200 new airports by 2035 – confirming its sincere commitment to the UN’s climate change narrative
Delingpole: Another UN Climate Summit Ends in Failure
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FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty
17 Dec 2018329
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The UN’s latest climate summit in Katowice, Poland has ended in failure as usual. Also as usual the 60,000 plus delegates are putting a brave face on it, claiming that a last minute deal has been reached after tough negotiations and that important progress has been made.
If you believe the Guardian:
“This is a good agreement,” the European commissioner Miguel Cañete told the Guardian. “We have more to do but we can move forward now.”
Nicholas Stern, author of the seminal review of the economics of climate change, said: “This has been another summit of tough negotiations, but it has ultimately succeeded in its crucial primary task of agreeing the so-called rulebook for the Paris agreement.”
But a rather more honest take can be found in this annually updated report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Every UN Climate Summit, it notes, follows exactly the same formula.
The Hopes:
‘Three years after the Paris Agreement was adopted, the EU hopes that all parties in Katowice will show the commitment and determination necessary to secure an ambitious and comprehensive work programme.”
The Last Chance:
‘Katowice offers last chance to limit warming to 1.5◦C; countries must revise national plans at the upcoming climate conference’.
Time Is Running Out:
‘We’re running out of chances to save the planet from climate change.’
The Circus:
‘Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has long campaigned against climate change, is expected to draw crowds, while there are reports that other Hollywood celebrities will make an appearance as well.’
The Deadlock:
‘First day of ministerial meetings fails to resolve deadlock.’ (Indian Express)
The Breakthrough at Five Minutes to Midnight:
‘Climate negotiators reach an overtime deal to keep Paris pact alive.’
The Cold Light of Day:
‘UN climate accord ‘inadequate’ and lacks urgency, experts warn.’ (Guardian)
None of the facts on climate has changed since last year’s failed summit in Bonn, Germany. It remains as uncertain as ever that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are making any significant contribution to “climate change”.
So, to compensate for the ongoing failure of their doomsday models to predict ‘climate change’, the UN’s activist scientists, watermelon economists, and celebrity hangers on have simply ramped up the rhetoric.
Whispery-voiced, gorilla-hugging Malthusian Sir David Attenborough opened the show by warning that the world was coming close to its end:
“If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
Not to be outdone, Al Gore did his best ever Prophet Jeremiah impersonation, by warning of “hell on earth” and a new “dark age” if the planet’s leaders failed to take the necessary action including “ubiquitous” draconian population control of the kind that has caused such misery in India and China.
Gore rehearsed the usual litany of climate doom claims – as well as introducing a new one, specially tailored for his local Polish audience.
As the New American reports:
For instance, he blamed global warming for civil war in Syria. He blamed “air pollution” for making Polish children dumber, dishonestly seeking to connect CO2, also known as the gas of life, to actual pollution. He even claimed global warming would make allergies worse. “98% of European cities could experience worse droughts by 2050,” Gore claimed. “Half of all the animals in all the world have gone since the 1970s!” he fumed. “Is that OK?” Gore showed scary images of ice melting in Greenland in the spring, as if there were something unusual about that. He also played a clip of a nuclear bomb exploding for emphasis. And pointing to the hurricane that hit Puerto Rico, Gore blamed alleged man-made warming, and said the response was an example of “environmental racism.”
But the world is moving on from the great climate scare story. As we reported last week, a new climate realist bloc – led by President Trump’s USA with fire support from Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait – is refusing even to pay lip service to the UN’s scaremongering. This resulted in the embarrassment whereby the UN summit was unable to adopt its own scaremongering report produced for it by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Meanwhile the world’s largest polluter, China, is building 200 new airports by 2035 – confirming its sincere commitment to the UN’s climate change narrative
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I wonder is this guy leans left?
Part of the 97% fosho.
Prof: Human Extinction ‘Might Just Be a Good Thing,’ Because Global Warming
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Part of the 97% fosho.
Prof: Human Extinction ‘Might Just Be a Good Thing,’ Because Global Warming
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Michael Bloomberg Flew Giant Blocks Of Ice To London On A Private Plane To Demonstrate 'Climate Change'
by Emily ZanottiDecember 17, 2018
Former New York mayor — and possible 2020 presidential candidate — Michael Bloomberg has flown several giant blocks of ice from Greenland to London for a public demonstration on how "climate change" affects the polar ice caps.
The blocks of ice, you see, melt in London's warmer weather, as ice is wont to do when temperatures hover above freezing.
Bloomberg timed the ice display to coincide with a United Nations international colloquium on climate change held earlier this month in Poland. That gathering, known as the "COP," is designed to help nations come together to "solve" the global climate "crisis," and Bloomberg, it seems, was doing his part by showing Londoners that ice can melt when the weather gets warmer.
There's just one problem — or, at least, there's one major irony. The ice chunks had to be flown from Greenland to London using specially designed devices. Once in London, they were dropped, then arranged in a "circular garden," but not before Bloomberg and his colleagues spent thousands — and emitted thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — getting the chunks from one place to another.
According to MyClimate.org, which can help frequent travelers calculate exactly how much CO2 they're releasing into the atmosphere with each trip, one, one-way trip from Nuuk, Greenland to Heathrow Airport in London emits 1.2 metric tons of carbon — but for one single passenger flying in economy class. A plane carrying a thousand-pound ice chunk emits much more.
Bloomberg hauled 24 blocks of ice from Greenland to London.
Conservatively, Bloomberg released 24 tons of carbon into the atmosphere — more than three U.S. households emit in an entire year.
At least, though, Bloomberg isn't alone in his hypocrisy. According to the Daily Signal, which calculated out the entire environmental cost of the full COP24 conference, his 24-ton expenditure barely resonates among his environmentalist colleagues, who shed more than 55,000 metric tons of carbon during their two week conference.