“Do as I say, Not as I do,” Hypocrisy Rampant at Copenhagen Climate Summit

From Brian M Johnson on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:37 PM

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The United Nations Copenhagen Climate Summit kicked off this week with world leaders, delegates, political activists, journalists, and celebrities meeting about how to limit worldwide carbon emissions.

The immediate result – they have all exponentially increased their carbon footprint in doing so:

15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists, 98 world leaders, and numerous celebrities will be flying from all corners of the globe to Copenhagen, Denmark
The Copenhagen airport expects up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone. The airport is not large enough to hold all of these planes, so they will have to fly to regional airports or Sweden to park during the conference
Once at the conference, they will not be walking or biking. They expect more than 1,200 limos will be used. Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says there are not enough limos in Denmark and they have to drive them from Germany and Sweden
Organizers expect the summit (including travel to and from the event) to produce 41,000 tons of "carbon dioxide equivalent". Over the same period the city of Middlesbrough, England (population 135,000) will produce the same amount
The sex, however, will be carbon-neutral, as the local sex worker’s union will be giving “freebees” to anyone with a climate conference delegate's pass

“The actions of the conference attendees illustrate the environmental elitism thanked for the deaths of hundreds-of-thousands of Malaria victims in Africa each year because of the ban on DDT – a proven mosquito repellant,” says ATR President Grover Norquist. “How does raising taxes, increasing electricity costs and pandering to the EU and the UN help the average American family?”

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Grover, get a clue. DDT isn't banned for malaria control and never was.
>> andrewew Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:54 PM

In 1972, the EPA banned DDT, a pesticide once considered a "miracle" for all of the lives it saved by killing the mosquitoes that carried malaria. The ban went into effect despite the evidence that with proper use it posed no health hazard to humans and only little substantial harm to animals. The EPA ban led to diminished DDT production making the pesticide less available to the world. In what is now Sri Lanka there were 2,800,000 malaria cases and 7,300 malaria deaths in 1948; with the use of DDT there were only 17 cases and no deaths in 1964. After DDT use was discontinued, Sri Lankan malaria cases rose to 500,000 in 1969.
>> Brian M Johnson Wednesday, December 9, 2009 1:05 PM

Worldwide malaria's devastating effects all but ended during the time that DDT use was widespread roughly 1950-1970. In 1970, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences wrote, "To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT. In a little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million deaths due to malaria that otherwise would have been inevitable."
>> Brian M Johnson Wednesday, December 9, 2009 1:14 PM

I just can't believe that with all of the problems our Economy is facing here at home, that the President is actually wasting taxpayer money and time to go over to this sham of a conference where the only thing that will be attempted is a global policy of decreasing the Economic output of the very countries that sustain and support the underdeveloped. It's just a big joke.
>> Larry, MD Wednesday, December 9, 2009 3:45 PM

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