[COP26] the very height of hypocrisy....

[Spike]

Bill Gates sails into Glasgow on a $2m-a-week rented superyacht.

Jeff Bezos flies in on his $60m private jet.

All to tell *you* that *you* have to give up *your* lifestyle 'to save the planet'.

Meanwhile, the 400 jets that brought the party-goers aka 'delegates' had to fly empty for 30 miles in order to find parking space.

"Surely" they cry "You don't expect *us* to live in a mud hut, wear sackcloth and ashes, live on vegetables grown by the door, and crap in a hole in the ground! For god's sake, we're the elite - *we* tell *you* what to do!".

COP26 - the very height of hypocrisy....

ITMT the focus seems to have shifted from CO2 to CH4, obviously the latest enemy we - rather then the elites - have to fight. Shades of 1984 run through this jamboree,,,

[Scott]

A cynical view, I would say. The carbon emissions attributable to this individual event must be a small proportion of the annual total and at least it has got people in the same place talking to each other, which can only be a good thing.

Anyway, what has the cost price of the jet got to do with anything? It is surely the kilogrammes of CO2 emitted per kilometre flown that counts :-)

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

time to rebel against all that shit

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

we had the best summer up here in Glasgow so bring on global warming I say ....

[The Natural Philosopher]

This morning for the very first time evvah, I heard and advert on telly for EDF that actually said they were 'investing in wind, *nuclear*, and solar'...

Hitherto one would be forgiven for thinking they had only windmills, instead of the largest fleet of nuclear reactors anywhere in the world...

[newshound]

Remember that this is the UK branch of the company, and an important part of their business is the retail side.

Quoting the Gene Wilder line from Blazing Saddles, which I was delighted to discover was actually an ad-lib:

"You know.....Morons"

[newshound]

No. COP26 has as much connection with reality as IPCC reports have with science.

[Spike]

IIRC the ad uses the technique of displaying their sources as

...wind...NUCLEAR...solar...

(slightly exaggerated due to limited display facilities)

but the NUCLEAR is dead centre of the screen,

[Andrew]

Fire up the Mustang Jim, and do some doughnuts in front of the arena, or wherever they are holding it.

[Spike]

Four degrees is approximately the difference in climate between Exeter and Glasgow...

[Owain Lastname]

And they don't have midges in Exeter?

Owain

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

we want Exeter weather up here then.....

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

We will rewire the global financial system - Sunak

we will be handing your tax money to foreigners in developing countries and the green companies us ministers have shares and interests in

we will tax everything we don't like to the hilt and you will have no choice what you eat or how you live

whilst guvmint ministers will still travel around in limos and planes

this arrogance and contempt is what happens when there is no feasible / credible guvmint opposition

you won't easily remove the scum from the snp or labour...........these gutter trash schemies have never had it so good and would otherwise be in low paid employment, or benefits

[Richard]

<snip>

The *real* problem is too many people breeding too many people.

[TimW]

A cynical view for sure but also a very inaccurate one.

Bill gates didn't arrive in Glasgow on a yacht. Might have been good if he did, especially 'sailing' but he didn't. Bezos jet didn't cost 60M dollars. It cost a lot but not that much.

Gates and Bezos aren't attendees at COP26, it's a UN inter governmental conference. Even if they are there they aren't telling anybody to be poor. Especially Bezos ffs he wants you to buy a lot of stuff on amazon.

'Spike' is clearly an idiot

TW

[TimW]

You forgot to mention that Bezos earth Fund is spending 10 Billion Dollars fighting climate change. It is relevant I think to your accusation of hypocrisy.

TW

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

how dare you

[Spike]

The hypocrisy lies in these self-indulgent jet-setting elites telling

*us* what we should have to suffer in order to 'save the planet', while they carry on as normal for them. Shove that for a game of darts. The jets flying into and out of COP26 probably each used more energy to do that than I use in a year, and the massive floating gin-palaces used in COP26 clearly do so, yet I'm the one that has to cut down . We already have sky high electricity prices in order to pay for 'green energy'. Someone was complaining about the 1.8m tons of concrete used in Hinckley C, yet a swift calculation shows that the UK windmill fleet has so far used perhaps 50% more than that, and they are talking of building a Yorkshire-sized fleet in the North Sea! Nuclear power stations last 60 years, windmills last 20...'Green' people clearly Can't Do Sums, which is Really Not A Good Place to start from when elites start telling you what you should do.

[Cursitor Doom]

As ever you hit the nail on the head, Spike.

They're focusing more on CH4 because it's much harder to measure and reliable stats don't go back as far as they do for CO2. The fact that some of us were questioning their FAKE CO2 timeline necessitates this switch.