Global Warming IV
British
blogger Tim Worstall has another look at the ICCT report on global warming over at
Tech Central Station. What I particuarly enjoyed about Tim's piece was the way it highlighted the hypocrisy of the panel:
No, I'm sorry, there are no prizes for guessing what their view of the matter is. Everything is terrible, getting worse and we all die Tuesday week unless we abolish capitalism. Actually, it's not quite that bad as it appears that they only actually met twice (once in England, once in Australia. Anyone want to run those flights through the CO2 emissions calculator?)
and
I went to the IPPR site in the UK looking for a copy of the paper and found that I could only buy a dead tree version, there was no .pdf or html version. Given the well known journalistic ethic that one never actually pays for anything I called them up and they confirmed that there never would be a down loadable version (although I will give them some credit, for when they heard I was from Techcentralstation they emailed over a .pdf with the instructions to have fun... thanks guys) so I'm left to conclude that this earth-shattering report, the one about emissions, saving the planet and all, is so important that it must be ferried round by vehicles burning fossil fuels.
Indeed. I recall a number of years ago, a reporter noting that Al Gore and various other luminaries, while meeting on Global Warming at the UN, left their chauffeur-driven limos running during the conference. Don't do as we do, do as we say about sums it up.
