I’ve written a piece for Mail+ about the galactic levels of hypocrisy being exhibited by the billionaires, politicians and celebrities attending COP26. Here is an extract.
If hypocrisy were a type of fuel, the 20,000 attendees at Cop26 in Glasgow would have solved the climate crisis at a stroke.
Yesterday, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos flew in to Glasgow in his £4 8million Gulfstream jet, leading a 400-strong parade of private aircraft transporting billionaires to the climate conference.
The jets, which included one carrying Prince Charles and his entourage from Rome, will disgorge more carbon into the atmosphere in a few days than 1600 Scots burn through in a year.
And the reason these plutocrats are flying in to Glasgow, of course, is to wag their fingers at ordinary people, insisting we reduce our carbon emissions or face the wrath of the next generation.
“It’s one minute to midnight,” Boris Johnson warned, neglecting to mention that he has taken more than 20 private flights since becoming Prime Minister.
I would say this means irony is dead, but climate change hypocrisy is a bit like the Black Knight in Monty Python And The Holy Grail. Every time you think these rich and powerful do-gooders have inflicted a mortal wound on their moral credibility, they carry on as if nothing has happened.
Perhaps the ultimate example of these double standards is Sky chief executive Dana Strong. The broadcaster is one of the main sponsors of Cop26 and Ms Strong has not been shy about lecturing her rivals for not doing enough to promote the green agenda.
So is she leading by example? Not exactly.
For the first six months of her term as chief executive, Dana Strong ‘commuted’ to Sky’s London headquarters from her home in Philadelphia via private jet. That meant she completed the 7,000-mile round trip multiple times before she relocated to London in June.
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Several dozen of the bloodsucking COP26 attendee tics are staying full board at Gleneagles, a 150 mile round trip away. They’re being ferried by Teslas of course.
Problem is, Gleneagles only has one Tesla charging point so the hotel has quietly hired dozens of diesel generators to charge them.
George Carlin “it’s one big club and you’re not fuckin’ in it.”
Wouldn’t it be cheaper and more environmentally friendly to load them all onto a few 747s, and fly them out over the Atlantic without a enough fuel for a return trip? That would solve quite a few problems all at once.
Also we could short sell stocks in Boeing and make a tonne of cash in the process.
Using diesel generators to charge up electric cars! Absolutely priceless – it says it all
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLy2SaSQAtA
The perfect song for Barcelona Footballer Sergio Aguero. He fronted a campaign encouraging 12 years olds to get jabbed.
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At least they didn’t go to the Trump Turnberry hotel in Ayrshire which is nearer.
PJW sums it up very nicely as ever.
Effing hypocrites, everyone of them!
The Welsh wizard agrees with you again:
https://twitter.com/RWTaylors/status/1455191251507101706
Absolutely, that’s two drinks that I owe him now!
Yep, he nails it!
I’d bet none of their pilots have been jabbed.
Rules are for the slaves – at least he’s honest about it.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/40Ho2GR6t86Z/
BitChute – MAG BITTER TRUTH –
BAM!
Ch4 news reporter just pointed the irony of 6 cars for Biden attending a climate change conference.
Wow, that’s dangerously off-narrative for a Channel 4 news reporter.
…
Eat more effin’ pies! Damn yer… Farmers everywhere need your global support. I was just a manic-depressive anorexic pratt until I discovered lovely oven cooked meeeaat!!
Lovelie-jubblie steak-n-ale pies, beef gravy… plus triple fat layered chips. Gimme… gimme… gimme.
Since I put on some puppy-fat weight and developed some love-handles I’ve also acquired a lovely new rapper/DJ boyfriend called Thor. He drives a bright red low-rider V8, when it miss-fires flames shoot out the back of the exhausts which is kool as in the winter Sweden is sooo bloody cold, we need all the heat we can get…. How dare you!
Thank god he also bought me a sable fur mink coat, for my birthday tis effin’ goooorgeous….
Gotta dash, another green awards ceremony coming up, Papa get that Gulfstrem Five spooled up.
GRETAs comin’ in hot!!
[As told to Toby Young Editor-in-chief DS]
Cruel
More so than encouraging children to be injected with experimental mRNA/DNA gene therapy transfections that will actually kill thousands?
Or convincing them they have no viable future as their house is burning down?
I think not
Should I have put \sarc on?
Probably. Irony is no longer understood like it used to be.
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/28/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-most-inconvenient-truth-capitalism-is-in-danger-of-falling-apart/
Delightfully so!
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The only thing there won’t be zero of is COVID.
It’s all a show. Not one of these bloated wankers truly believes in this bollocks. So who does, and why do they/their opinions matter? These elected puppets/muppets can not be pandering to the likes of the old fogeys and the crusties who litter our roads with their arses, so to whom are they pandering?
They are all pandering to the global elites who frankly have nothing better to do than laud it over us plebs and in so doing feel important on the world stage. Hypocrites, every of them but the problem is that have set themselves up as the saviours of mankind. I didn’t ask them to be that, did you?
If you voted then yes, you have asked them to do your bidding.
No – not unless all that green goop was in their manifestos and last time the UK voted, while it might have been the bulk of the green party manifesto, which, lets face it, is not exactly in a position to form even so much as a minority government, it would only have counted as a very small part of the mainstream parties manifestos. Can anyone remember the conservative party campaigning solely on these issues last election? From memory, was it not all about brexit?
There is no “climate crisis”.
The climate is changing as it always has done. And in any case any changes we are causing are dwarfed by those caused by the solar cycle and by volcanoes and non-human sources of CO2.
If anything we are likely to enter a period of cooling as we approach another grand solar minimum rather like the Maunder minimum in the 17th century.
There is nothing much we can do to change anything. And running around causing fear and panic and shouting “EMERGENCY” isn’t going to help.
It’s a little like a contagious novel respiratory virus in that respect.
Funnily enough, it seems to be the same people involved in pushing panic in both cases.
Amen to that.
Double amen!
Ah, COP26, The UNs annual jamboree of ingratiation and hypocrisy by the rulers of the world. COP26 means Conference of Parties, 26 is the twenty-sixth year.
I noticed Sleepy Joe was actually asleep. Boris and Charlie clocked up loads of air miles to get there…
Has he done this yet?
He did have a kip mid session –
https://rumble.com/voko3p-msnbc-bashes-biden-for-falling-asleep-during-climate-convention.html
Can you blame him?
…….
Prince Charles just scared me!
I never realised he was Commander in Chief of Planet Earth:
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1455162087517347846
I’m really quite enjoying all this.
It’s almost as if they are going out of their way to look ridiculous, kind of giving us permission to ignore the posturing, hypocritical crap they will spout and daring us to take them seriously.
If we do hold them to the ludicrous undertakings they make to achieve net zero by Friday week, then more fool us. Who ever remembers promises made by countries in previous COP meetings?
We’ve got solid proof that they are all full of **** and we have the photographic record of their cant.
More climate hypocrisy …
Yet more climate hypocrisy …
The problem is being obscured by the grand notion that we have a climate crisis – we don’t. But we do have a very real and easily observable problem with pollution. Take a walk anywhere in any country and you can’t avoid noticing all the plastic along roadsides, by footpaths, in parks – in fact everywhere. Paddle barefoot in a stream and cut your foot on a broken bottle. Swim in the sea and see the plastic jellyfish. Sail the oceans and see the bottles bobbing. Be aware that chemicals and methods used to increase food production have disastrous effects on wildlife. Yes we have a problem but the climate is just the entertainment.
All in all we do need to clean up our act but pretending that net zero carbon will fix the climate is dangerously naïve. We need a holistic and intelligent approach to living in harmony with the planet and not increasing the mountain of non-biodegradable crap.
All plastic is bio degradable, eventually. It’s just hydrocarbons, the building blocks of live. Ever been down to a dock and looked at the plastic components. They’re all degrading really quickly.
I’m not sure about that. I heard they just get broken into tiny, dare I say nano particles, so that you can’t see them. I’m sure they will ultimately breakdown but it’s a lot, lot longer.
At a small enough size they get eaten. Deep water horizon vented 4.9 million barrels of oil, practically none of which went anywhere, because micro-organisms ate the rest.
Tasty! I wonder what effect it had on the food chain.
None, it’s all the building blocks of life.
Plastic is not a building block of life. Eat some plastic bottles for 1 week and let us all know how you feel.
What guff.
So eat fish is eating plastic, not great news, but still a heck of a lot safer than a Bill Gates sponsored jab.
In my lifetime packaging has gone from being returnable / burnable / compostable to none of those. Some plastics do break down into small particles but most probably have a half-life of millennia and their heap is increasing alarmingly.
Not true. They break down much quicker that you imagine, in the right conditions (sun, salt, wave action, availability of micro organisms). In fact, just the environment provided by the sea.
For way of example, consider black smokers. They emit chemicals that nothing in the rest of the ocean or on land is capable of consuming, yet they support a thriving biosphere.
Remember when we were told that cds would last forever. Within 10 years a bacterium was discoverd eating cds.
Dream on.
It breaks into micro plastics and takes hundreds of years to decompose but before it does it is eaten by animals which are mostly the eaten by humans. You are what you eat. Antibiotics and plastic.
Unfortunately the *$%@’s just see an opportunity in climate change to channel more taxes towards the “elite”.
What really winds me up is that they must be laughing at us and most of us deserve it!
Non-biodegradable crap? Yes ladies and gentleman the WEF deliver you peak irony….
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/ppe-masks-gloves-coronavirus-ocean-pollution/
It’s only day one of COP26 and I’m bored of the whole thing already.
The only news from Glasgow that would interest me is Greta Thunberg getting horribly drunk and having a deeply regrettable one night stand. I would love to see her press conference the next day:-
“You stole my virginity with you’re empty promises. HOW DARE YOU”.
If this does happen my bet is that it will’ve been Sir David Att-‘er-burrow.
A one night stand with Greta?
He’d be an ugly bastard wouldn’t he?
Once upon a time the MSM would’ve pointed out the irony.
“Gleneagles only has one Tesla charging point so the hotel has quietly hired dozens of diesel generators to charge them.”
Really? Says it all if true.
One minute to midnight, Boris? May all your jets to to pumpkins!
One minute to midnight – but we can slow the clock by following Boris’ example and limiting ourselves to seven or eight children.
Those who use the term “virtue signalling” should try to spread their wings. Virtue signalling? You mean like when the royal family go to church? Or when the monarch reads a Christmas message? Or how about on Remembrance Sunday when government ministers and leading figures in the “opposition” parties and the armed forces indulge in their annual sickmaking display at the Cenotaph? What about wearing poppies in general? Is that “virtue signalling”? If it isn’t, what is it?
The hypocrisy is irrelevant, it would not be a virtue if these bozos were consistent with their absurd pronouncements and policies.
Does anyone remember the days when politicians/dignitaries were a lot more subtle in their hypocrisy and double standards? I’m sure I remember a time when the media in general pointed out politicians’ hypocrisy/double standards, openly ridiculed them, and generally held them to account, with the elite/establishment being far more careful, and ostensibly contrite if they were caught out. Now it seems as if the media in general is a part of the establishment, barely raising a collective eyebrow at the sheer double standards.
Like Orwell’s Winston Smith, I’m not 100% sure I’m accurately recalling things. I have vague recollections. It seems so long ago. Am I imagining a past that didn’t exist?
But I am imagining it too…
….now lets try again, how many fingers can you see?
They are using the psycho-ops skills they honed with covid to now drive this climate change agenda. On the South West news tonight they were relentlessly pounding out stories about rising sea levels and terrible weather events and how we are all doomed by these unless we toe the line with whatever nonsense they inflict on us. It is no longer killing Granny with covid, it is now drowning Granny in her seaside bungalow unless we switch to an electric car and stop eating meat. I rather expect the Covid Marshals will be re-branded eco Marshals. I am just waiting for someone to come up with an eco reason as to why we should wear face-masks.
to stop us emitting CO2 as we exhale?
Don’t give them ideas.
If only humans had any impact on carbon in the environment at all, this might matter. But they don’t, so it doesn’t.
FFS.
I’ve got an idea – don’t fuckin name them.
Or count them.
Problem solved.
Running out of names for windy periods is a bit concerning though. It’s an end of the world catastrophe.
I’m going shopping for a kag in a bag tomorrow just to be on the safe side.
Their huge conference carbon footprint hypocrisy will not have any effect on climate change. This planets climate has been, is and will influenced by natural phenomenon essentially beyond human control.
They know that, so do their pupper masters. The puppet masters own the fossil fuel power industry as well as the nuclear power industry. The hidden agenda is to put global power generation into the ownership of a few by promoting nuclear power through scaring the shit out of everyone with the propaganda lie that CO2 is the planets enemy. At the same time a trllion dollar carbon credit cash cow will benefit the global banking elite. It has been reported (but difficult to verify) that 90% of the worlds uranium mines are allegedly owned one local royal family.
Sorry if this all sounds a bit far fetched, but since chucking out the TV and having stopped reading The Guardian, I kind of see things differently now!
but it is all very dramatic and makes for great sound bites on the 10 o clock news – with pictures of forest fires and tropical cyclones and the poor melting ice caps. I could almost weep…
Ah yes, those ‘melting’ ice caps. Strange that Antarctica has just had the coldest winter ever observed, while the Arctic ice coverage has increased for several years in a row!
How do Barometers work?
That’s what controls the atmospheres ability to hold energy (i.e. temperature).
What’s that? Water vapour, and when it forms clouds it BLOCKS more evaporation from the sea effectively lowering the temperature until it falls as rain and the cloud clears and the temp can rise again.
Hypocrisy is something that is roundly condemned in the New Testament.
It saddened me but did NOT surprise me that Welby and his useless bench of bishops have said NOTHING about this monstrous hypocrisy.
Where are the Old Testament prophets? Does Welby (or Cotrell) even know about them???
And note that not ONE of the senior prelates in the other churches (Baptist, United Reformed, Methodist, Roman Catholic) have said anything either.
Disgusting.
King James Bible
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Plants loooooove all of that CO2….guess the “greenies” couldn’t connect the dots.
I would love it if these 22,000 ‘world leaders’ were all simultaneously arrested.
sarc/
That presidential limo is clearly a hybrid, and if you alter the camera angle a bit I am sure you will see a 100w solar panel stuck to the roof.
/sarc.
I am a CO2 sceptic – in terms of its singular importance. But I am also coming from a point of view that wider anthropogenic environmental change is more of a problem than it has ever been.
Given that, even my natural scepticism was left gob-smacked at the harsh reality of the hypocrisy in evidence at COP26.
Sunak reduces the cost of short-haul flights even more. We had a family event over the weekend. Already, flying from Glasgow to Bristol was half cost of travelling by train, ffs., and the lowest cost by train from Leeds to Bristol for a couple was £400!
Great environmental incentives!