Copenhagen: 1,200 Limos, 140 Private Planes At Climate Summit

Telegraph.co.uk:

On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.

"We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention," she says. "But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report."

Read the whole story: Telegraph.co.uk

Comments

[DemocraticStraits]

02:39 PM on 12/09/2009

This comes across to me like

"1200 hoods, 140 crosses at Racism Summit"

[EWeiss]

11:28 PM on 12/08/2009

I wonder how many planes and limos are being chartered by Sen. James Imhofe alone.

You realize that both opponents and proponents of climate change legislation are ALL meeting here, right? If I were some lavishly funded opponent (they all are), then I'd fly in every single member of my entourage in a Gulfstream V, then take a picture of my own group and say "look at all the private jets descending on Copenhagen."

FOX would run it.

[SwingingFromCenter]

10:57 AM on 12/08/2009

So many silly lemmings in this thread.

The article says we should be outra.ged! Rabblerabblerabble!

Yes, how DARE world leaders take private planes instead of commercial airlines. Oh wait, Obama is gonna be riding AF1 to this thing. Maybe we should put him on a United Airlines flight. Yea, nothing bad can come of that. Same with all the other world leaders.

What's that? Oh, it's not just the leaders? It's their bodyguard detail, their administrators, their expert panelists as well? Hmmmm, better build a bigger first class section. And hey, it's absolutely better to fly a big commercial plane to this thing than a small private jet. The private jet uses SOOOO much more fuel. Oh, wait...

And how dare they ride around in a limo? It's much better for them all to take a convoy of SUV's. Sure, it'd take 4 or 5 SUV's to fit em all, whereas at present they all go in 1 limo, but I'm sure the limo consumes more fuel. Oh wait....

Oh wait, I know! They should all just grab one of the free bikes scattered around Copenhagen and RIDE to the summit. Cause again, absolutely NOTHING bad can go with that plan, especially not with all those protesters and ang.ry hi.ppies that are here in the country right now.

Anyone who needs proof that humans get dum.ber by the generation need look no further than this crowd.

[EWeiss]

11:18 PM on 12/08/2009

I'll bet you a million dollars that this story was written ahead of time because of how predictable it is. This is how heads of state travel. This is only news if you a) didn't already know that, or b) swallow HP's innuendo that it's a bunch of hippies meeting here, instead of people like Merkel and Sarkozy that the right deifies.

[Michele Himmel]

09:21 AM on 12/08/2009

They are also banning Christmas trees a tthe conference center. Excuse is that it is UN territory while they are there and they want to remain neutral. Hmmmmmm...... the UN has a big ol`chapel on site in NY with a stone block they call "every mans God"and they support within their organization New Age religious groups. Neutral my booty. Anti Christian is more like it.

[EWeiss]

11:23 PM on 12/08/2009

"Banning" christmas trees? What does that even mean? That if someone wants to randomly put up a Christmas tree in the middle of the conference that they're not allowed?

I seriously doubt that rule actually exists; if it does, then I'd like to see similar rules banning performance art, sporting events, human pyramids, the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, and everything that just popped into my mind that nobody would ever think of doing in the middle of a conference.

Translated from FOXese, "no one plans to put up a Christmas tree in the middle of a conference that's not taking place at Christmas and has nothing to do with Christmas". Wow, big whoop.

[CentralVA]

09:21 AM on 12/08/2009

Do conference organizers and participants not grasp that their behavior undermines the claim
the world faces imminent disaster?

[EWeiss]

11:24 PM on 12/08/2009

Possibly. The only requirement for going to the conference is that you be a delegate from a government recognized by the UN.

So this includes people who couldn't care less about climate change.

[EWeiss]

11:32 PM on 12/08/2009

Actually, on second read, there is no requirement.

Americans for Prosperity, famous previously for rooting against the US for the 2016 Olympics, are sending people to lobby against any treaty. That's probably a few dozen private jets right there.

[ontariogirl]

09:12 AM on 12/08/2009

“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”

[JoeTheProgrammer]

08:57 AM on 12/08/2009

I must say I see a tide turning here. A month or two ago, the percentage of posts resisting the AGW onslaught was much smaller. This is good news. Keep plugging away guys and gals. Reasonable people are starting to see this for what it really is.

[BigBirdxx]

09:24 AM on 12/08/2009

I took the bait hook line and sinker, but started doing some research on my own. I went to the past before studying the AGW problem and solution. I read Holdren's book titled Ecoscience and read up on the makeup and projections of doom from the Club of Rome. In short, their goal was to close the gap between overdeveloped nations and underdeveloped nations. The way to do this was to lower the standard of living in the overdevleoped nations, while allowing the underdeveloped nations to improve their standards of living. The underdeveloped nations were to be given a free pass and allowed to pollute until the gap was closed. In addition, to quicken the lowering of standard of living of the overdeveloped nations, there needed to be a hugh wealth transfer. Guilt was to be a main player in this wealth transfer to the underdeveloped nations. Guess who is a BIG fan of Holdren? Yep, Obama and a couple of his Czars. Now fast forward to 2009. I am not denying that AGW does not exsist. What troubles me is the possibility of hidden agendas. I thought the debate was all about the science and the politics about improving our environment?

[denny8844]

08:49 AM on 12/08/2009

We are all equal but some are more equal than the rest

[JoeTheProgrammer]

10:31 AM on 12/08/2009

Animal Farm redeux.

[JoeTheProgrammer]

10:45 AM on 12/08/2009

And we are not the pigs.

[EWeiss]

11:38 PM on 12/08/2009

"A Republican US senator, Jim Inhofe, is jetting in at the head of an anti-climate-change "Truth Squad."

Meet the pigs.

[SabeWhat]

08:46 AM on 12/08/2009

Other Options: They could take a train to the meeting or maybe just drive. Even better they could have chosen a horse and carriage. Upon arrival if needed they coud have chosen a motor cycle to get around.

[kmk04]

08:55 AM on 12/08/2009

Or just fly commercial.

[CentralVA]

09:15 AM on 12/08/2009

Or teleconference.

How many of the delegates really need to be in Copenhagen, anyway?

[SusanElizabeth1949]

08:18 PM on 12/10/2009

My vote would be teleconference. It is reliable, cheap pretty much zero carbon and would have the added benefit of saving the city of Copenhagen millions in extra policing costs to keep the demonstrators from destroying the city as they have tried at a few other types of summits.

[barksalot]

08:38 AM on 12/08/2009

All these haughty twits are eagerly awaiting our Presidents pledge to use our dollars to make the world a better place for them to continue the status quo. Meanwhile us minions will shoehorn our families into mini vans, see rising gas prices, pay double for our energy use etc.

When will these scam artists insist that all data relative to global warming that we've waited years for be released. Answer= never

[JoeTheProgrammer]

10:33 AM on 12/08/2009

Our hard earned buck will be used as reparations. Every two bit despot and dictator in the 3rd world is salivating right now. Dreams of fattened swiss bank accounts dance in their heads.

[kmk04]

08:29 AM on 12/08/2009

Do as we say, not as we do.

[Disdain]

08:13 AM on 12/08/2009

Peons go back to the dark ages so we can make room for our stretch limos and private planes.

[gardensla]

08:12 AM on 12/08/2009

With all the thousands of stories being filed on COP 15, Huffington Post gets a thumbs-up for choosing one that tells the bigger story and allows us to hear from lots of voices.

[Rosewren]

08:06 AM on 12/08/2009

There are over 20K people attending the conference and that divided by 1200 Limos is over 16 people per limo, that does not sound so bad to me. 98 world leaders and other people attending that need top notch security cannot travel about safely in this day and age all together on one bus. The stakes would be too high for a terrorist to do something here. I think this is all puff about nothing and if people use common sense instead of their emotions to do their thinking they would realize that.

When talking about the cooling temperatures this year, it needs to be put in context of the temperatures for the last 100 years and the trend is warming not cooling. I don't know what is the best method to protect the planet but to do nothing is sticking your head in the sand. Will it make a lot of money for some people, I'm sure it will as any new endeavor makes money, thats the way it is in life.

[graffitijoe]

07:42 AM on 12/08/2009

If the climate changes enough for me to notice, I will adapt to it.

As I write this the temp outside is a new record cold, it's only 4:30 and the temp is down to 26, so it'll probably get down to 24 by dawn, shattering the old record by 6 degrees - in SoCal.

I'm not too worried about global warming right now but if it becomes a problem, like I said, I'll adapt. Just as, if the hypocritical politicians raise my taxes over it I will work to throw them out of office.

[ChicagoBob]

07:57 AM on 12/08/2009

All my life I have thought the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

Now I know it both rises and sets on you.

Get an education about what climate change means. It is not the same a local weather.

[gardensla]

08:22 AM on 12/08/2009

What a lovely little bubble in which you exist!

Even if you don't believe global warming is real and that it has anything to do with your posh First World existence, surely you do know that we will run out of fossil fuels eventually right?

Much of the world is already in the process of envisioning and adapting to an economy that is not based on fossil fuels. The US runs a serious risk of missing out on being a leading manufacturer and exporter of green technology.

The risks of not getting with the program are many and the stakes are huge. I would think one with your level of Superego would surely see that the benefits of working toward a fossil-fuel-free future outweigh any risks of believing what is right in front of you.