{"id":170654,"date":"2021-11-01T13:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T12:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=170654"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T12:11:34","slug":"cop26-will-be-a-grotesque-spectacle-of-decadence-and-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=170654","title":{"rendered":"COP26 will be a \u2018grotesque spectacle\u2019 of \u2018decadence and hypocrisy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"170657\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=170657\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6a8d0d087a6038ccb5aeb58d9d563452.jpg?fit=563%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"563,495\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"6a8d0d087a6038ccb5aeb58d9d563452\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6a8d0d087a6038ccb5aeb58d9d563452.jpg?fit=563%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6a8d0d087a6038ccb5aeb58d9d563452.jpg?resize=723%2C636&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170657\" width=\"723\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6a8d0d087a6038ccb5aeb58d9d563452.jpg?w=563&amp;ssl=1 563w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6a8d0d087a6038ccb5aeb58d9d563452.jpg?resize=300%2C264&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6a8d0d087a6038ccb5aeb58d9d563452.jpg?resize=91%2C80&amp;ssl=1 91w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spiked Online Chief Political Writer Brendan O\u2019Neill says he believes the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow will be a \u201cgrotesque spectacle\u201d of \u201cdecadence and hypocrisy\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we have here are the rich and powerful flying in, many of them on private jets, many of them driving around in big gas guzzling cars, lecturing the rest of us about the need to rein in our material aspirations,\u201d he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cLearn to live with less \u2013 that&#8217;s what the green ideology is all about. Drive less, fly less, eat less meat, be less greedy. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to hear those kinds of messages from the kind of people who fly around in jets that it costs 10,000 pounds an hour to hire out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kg5mC6TSCdA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiked Online Chief Political Writer Brendan O\u2019Neill says he believes the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow will be a \u201cgrotesque spectacle\u201d of \u201cdecadence and hypocrisy\u201d. \u201cWhat we have here are the rich and powerful flying in, many of them on private jets, many of them driving around in big gas guzzling cars, lecturing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-Iou","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":164422,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=164422","url_meta":{"origin":170654,"position":0},"title":"Ultimate Climate Hypocrisy: Coal Burning BoJo Demands the World \u201cGrow Up\u201d","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"24\/09\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Guest essay by Eric Worrall Even the BBC seems perplexed by UK PM Boris Johnson\u2019s grotesque climate hypocrisy, demanding action from everyone else, while failing to practice what he preaches in Britain. 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