Andrew Stuttaford of National Review Online explores recent actions of the world’s foremost climate alarmists.
Those trying to justify the destructive policies of the “race” to net zero like to stress the urgency and the depth of the climate crisis/emergency. That’s a case that would have more credibility if those promoting behaved as if they believed in that depth and that urgency. …
… Britain’s Conservative governments went quite some way down the route to taking the country toward climate authoritarianism and green ruin, and its Labour successor has picked up the pace, making this story from the Daily Telegraph of some note:
The Government sent 470 delegates on a 5,000-mile round trip to the Cop29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, it has emerged.
The delegation, including seven ministers, more than 100 civil servants and two official videographers prompted allegations of net zero “hypocrisy” against the Government.
Zoom, anyone?
The UK registered 470 delegates to the summit, according to figures reported by the Mail on Sunday, compared with 405 from the US, 437 from Italy and 115 from France.
405 from the U.S. There’s a case for Messrs. Musk and Ramaswamy to look at when they get going. …
… But back to the Brits. To be fair, the country’s delegation was not only from the government:
The British delegation was made up of 354 government officials or ministers, with the remaining 116 including representatives from British overseas territories and crown dependencies, journalists, business figures and policy experts.
“Business figures.” Of course. Climate policy continues to be a rentseekers’ dream.And beyond the cost to hard-pressed taxpayers of this futile jamboree, there was the wound this travel will inflict on our “boiling” planet:
The Mail on Sunday reported that the British delegation was estimated to have tallied 2.3 million air miles in total for return trips, with a total carbon footprint of at least 338 tons of carbon dioxide.
