Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians. I deal with evidence and not with frightening computer models because the seeker after truth does not put his faith in any consensus. The road to the truth is long and hard, but this is the road we must follow. People who describe the unprecedented comfort and ease of modern life as a climate disaster, in my opinion have no idea what a real problem is.
On Episode #182 of The Climate Realism Show, we’ll break down what’s really happening at COP30 and what it reveals about the people who want to control every aspect of our lives to “save the planet.”
Is COP30 shaping up to be the worst UN climate conference ever? The 30th Conference of the Parties is underway in the Brazilian jungle — some of which was cleared and paved to bring the private jet-set and bureaucrats into the venue. And just days in, the whole thing is already descending into chaos.
A large group of angry indigenous protesters have stormed the conference, furious that the agenda left them out. Poor planning and shoddy infrastructure have led to rain leaking through light fixtures, broken air conditioning, and even problems with something as basic as toilet paper disposal.
Maybe sensing this impending farce, at least 30 major countries — including the United States — have declined to send official government delegations. We’re only a few days in, and it’s already looking like the worst COP ever. That takes some doing.
On Episode #182 of The Climate Realism Show, we’ll break down what’s really happening at COP30 and what it reveals about the people who want to control every aspect of our lives to “save the planet.”
The Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely, Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, and Linnea Lueken will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week.
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Politicians, celebrities, and billionaires who lecture ordinary people about their carbon footprints live by another set of rules. They travel by private jet, dine in excess, and retreat to mansions powered by the very energy sources they want banned. It’s a spectacle of hypocrisy so pervasive, the media barely blinks.
From Leo DiCaprio to AOC, the new nobility moralizes about austerity while refueling their private jets. Their creed: ‘Do as we say, not as we emit.’
Politicians, celebrities, and billionaires who lecture ordinary people about their carbon footprints live by another set of rules. They travel by private jet, dine in excess, and retreat to mansions powered by the very energy sources they want banned. It’s a spectacle of hypocrisy so pervasive, the media barely blinks.
Even scientists who scold the public about emissions fly thousands of miles to United Nations climate conferences — racking up the same greenhouse gases they claim will destroy the planet. This is two-tiered climate morality: Those with power indulge, while everyone else is told to sacrifice. Preaching austerity from a private jet has become the “let them eat cake” of our age.
Hypocrisy that pays
The real question isn’t whether the hypocrisy exists but why it’s so tolerated. The answer, in part, is that too many people have found ways to profit from it — through subsidies, grants, and the ever-expanding green grift.
According to data from Yard, celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Leonardo DiCaprio emitted between 3,000 and 4,400 tons of carbon dioxide in 2022 from private jet travel alone — hundreds or even thousands of times the annual emissions of an average citizen.
For perspective: Bangladesh emits about 0.71 tons of carbon dioxide per person annually. Ghana emits 0.74, Ethiopia 0.13, and Kenya 0.4. A single year of indulgence by an American climate icon outweighs the lifetime footprint of entire villages in the developing world.
The climate elite
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who condemns “climate deniers” as morally deficient, has a carbon footprint equivalent to nearly 280 average Americans or more than 2,200 Indians. DiCaprio built his global brand on climate activism — then took a private jet from Europe to New York to collect an environmental award.
If the hypocrisy of celebrities is glaring, the behavior of politicians is worse.
Records show that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign spent over $221,000 on private jets in just one quarter — even as the Vermont socialist voted for laws that punish fossil fuel use and floated the idea of criminal charges for energy executives.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fighting Oligarchy tour, meant to challenge wealth and privilege, relied on carbon-intensive travel of its own. The Bronx Democrat later scaled back her private jet use after criticism — by switching to first-class flights instead.
The priesthood of carbon
At United Nations climate conferences, the hypocrisy reaches liturgical heights. The gatherings are usually held in luxury destinations like Dubai, Glasgow, or Sharm El Sheikh. Each transcontinental flight emits roughly 2 tons of carbon dioxide per traveler — the annual output of a citizen in many poorer nations.
Yet these same scientists and bureaucrats push for energy restrictions in developing countries, demanding that millions forgo affordable electricity to meet arbitrary “net-zero” targets. Their supposed moral authority rests not on sacrifice but on self-congratulation.
A reckoning awaits
The hypocrisy would be merely irritating if the consequences weren’t so destructive. The push for “net-zero emissions” — a fantasy that defies both physics and economics — is driving up the cost of gasoline, electricity, and food while shrinking personal freedom. Families pay more and travel less, while the jet-setters congratulate themselves for “saving the planet.”
They’re not leading an energy transition. They’re entrenching a new aristocracy — one in which elites keep their privileges while the working class bears the pain in the name of the “greater good.”
The rise of Donald Trump and other skeptics has interrupted this march toward a green oligarchy, but the climate faithful persist. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s alliance with the Vatican to “terminate” global warming is only the latest display of moral vanity.
Eventually, voters will see through this 21st-century version of aristocratic corruption. The public may not wield guillotines, but the electoral version will do just fine. Off with their subsidies!
PUBLISHED: 12:25 AEDT, 12 March 2024 | UPDATED: 20:48 AEDT, 12 March 2024
Greens leader Adam Bandt has come under fire for racking up an expenses bill of almost $1million a year, including hundreds of thousands on printing and two private jet flights.
The anti-fossil fuel campaigner also claimed $12,000 on a taxpayer-provided vehicle and petrol allowance plus $29,000 on government COMCAR trips and taxis, according to figures from the Department of Finance.
Despite his party’s core policy of cutting C02 emissions Mr Bandt used two private jets during the 2022 election campaign, landing tax payers with the $23,000 bill.
At this rate it will take us till the year 3909AD to give up fossil fuels. No wonder a large chunk of the population thinks these talks are futile nonsense.
At this rate it will take us till the year 3909AD to give up fossil fuels. No wonder a large chunk of the population thinks these talks are futile nonsense.
Breakthrough! Deep into their umpteenth sleepless night of hard bargaining, the delegates at the Cop28 meeting in Dubai managed to upgrade a verb in their final deal.
Instead of saying nations ‘could’ take action, the agreement ‘calls on’ them to take action. Incredible!
Cue rapturous applause and a standing ovation as representatives from 197 countries approved the historic ‘UAE Consensus’ on climate change. The Daily Mail.com has the story.
‘There’s stronger verb forms but I think it does send a strong signal nonetheless,’ crowed a delegate from the World Resources Institute.
This verb miracle — alongside language about ‘transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems [electricity, heating, transport and industry] in a just, orderly and equitable manner’ — is as futile as it was predictable. It’s futile because it will lead to the cancellation of precisely zero coal-fired power stations or oil-exploration plans.
China and India, despite spouting the Cop catechism, are between them approving the equivalent of a new coal plant every two or three days.
In America, which led calls to transition away from fossil fuels, oil and gas production has never been higher: it now produces far more oil than Saudi Arabia. Brazil — while demanding the phasing out of fossil fuels — plans to become the world’s largest oil producer by 2030.
Hypocrisy is too feeble a word for this gap between preaching and practice.
As for predictable, do they take us for fools? After 27 previous Cop conferences we knew how this pantomime in Dubai would go.
As surely as night follows day, 98,000 gas-guzzling delegates, many of them arriving by private jet, would engage in a fortnight-long ordeal of hotel room service and then issue dire warnings of a breakdown. As expected, Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing nations would be reluctant to commit to the phase-out of fossil fuels. Yet, after a long night of haggling, a bleary-eyed announcement of a triumph would be greeted with hyperbole by an emotional BBC reporter. For the 28th time.
Remember that at Cop17 in Durban 12 years ago, world leaders agreed that by 2015 they would sign a legally binding treaty — not a voluntary one — to reduce emissions, which would apply to the whole world and come into force by 2020. Yet, at Cop21 in 2015 in Paris they decided instead to present as a great breakthrough a series of entirely voluntary and empty national promises, few of which have ever been implemented.
At the time I pointed this failure out in the House of Lords, saying that Paris therefore represented the end of a 20-year attempt to get agreement to legally binding emissions targets, leaving Britain as the only country with such a target.
For this sin of criticising the agreement, thereby raining on his parade, the minister — a colleague from my own party — chose to liken me to North Korea, the only state to stand apart from the Cop deal. Eight years on, the statistics on continually rising emissions show I was right and he was wrong.
So yesterday I celebrated the news of the breakthrough on verbs in Dubai by choosing a second-hand diesel car to replace my existing one. No, I am not being cynical: the data is clear that my emissions of carbon dioxide will be lower that way than if I had chosen a battery-electric vehicle.
According to Volkswagen’s calculations, in a typical European country such is the up-front carbon footprint of batteries and electricity that I would have to drive an electric car 80,000 miles before I would even start to save emissions, compared with an existing diesel — let alone one of the more efficient new ones. And I tend to trade in cars at 50,000 miles. So I am doing my bit by not buying electric.
In the year 2000, according to the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, 84 per cent of the world’s primary energy came from fossil fuels. Last year, after 23 years of transitioning away from fossil fuels — and 27 interminable Cop conferences since 1995 — that number was… 82 per cent.
At this rate it will take us till the year 3909AD to give up fossil fuels. No wonder a large chunk of the population thinks these talks are futile nonsense.
Why is it so hard to give up fossil fuels? After all, in the 1990s the world came together to give up chlorofluorocarbons to save the ozone layer in a few short years.
Look at All These Celebrities Fighting Climate Change With Private Jets!
These reprehensible royal crybabies have been branded “hypocrites” after flying on private jet after lamenting global warming. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle enjoyed a relaxing flight to the Caribbean on a Falcon 7X private jet.
Is the habitual breathtaking climate hypocrisy of these reprehensible royal crybabies still newsworthy?
Harry and Meghan use private jet for holiday days after attending mental health conference
Despite repeatedly stressing their eco credentials, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex jetted off on a private jet to go on a Caribbean holiday after attending a climate change event
By Patrick Hill Senior News Reporter 22:21, 21 Oct 2023 UPDATED23:17, 21 OCT 2023
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew off on a private jet to enjoy a Caribbean holiday… after attending a conference that warned of how the blight of climate change is damaging children’s mental health.
Eco campaigners Prince Harry and wife Meghan were branded “hypocrites” over their carbon-belching jaunt. They attended the summit in New York on October 10 then flew from New Jersey to Canouan in a Falcon 7X for a holiday the next day. And last Sunday, they used the same aircraft to travel four hours from the exclusive island hotspot to Atlanta, Georgia.
Harry has in the past defended his private jet use as being an unfortunate necessity, and promised to do better in the future;
… Launching Travalyst, a new eco-tourism company in Amsterdam on Tuesday, the father of baby Archie Harrison defended his family’s need to fly private on occasion.
“I came here by commercial,” the 34-year-old said, according to the Associated Press.
“I spend 99 percent of my life traveling the world by commercial. Occasionally, there needs to be an opportunity based on a unique circumstance to ensure my family are safe and it’s genuinely as simple as that. But as I said in my speech, for me, it’s about balance.”
“We can all do better,” he added. “And while no is perfect, we are all responsible for our individual impact. The question is what we do to balance it out.” …Read more:
There you have it plebs. The same justification anti-gun celebrities and politicians use when surrounding themselves with armed security.
You and your family don’t deserve protection and special treatment like they do. Their value to the world justifies them breaking the rules they seek to impose on unimportant people like you.
We wouldn’t want Kerry to suffer the indignity of flying with the rest of us, let alone take the bus.
ClimateDepot.com publisher Marc Morano discusses U.S. climate envoy John Kerry’s testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandates on ‘The Bottom Line.’
At today’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Climate Czar John Kerry was asked about his use of a private jet by Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL).
At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) questioned former Sec. John Kerry about the State Department’s climate budget.
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