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11-30-2007, 02:03 PM
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Cycling ministers to help ease Bali emissions | Environment | Reuters
Apparently, they've never heard of videoconferences.
Delegates from 190 countries, flying to Bali, 10,000 people, tons of carbon emissions, 200 bicycles (for that photo op).
To negotiate a deal on global warming. |
11-30-2007, 02:15 PM
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Not to worry, global warming isn't real anyway. |
11-30-2007, 02:28 PM
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It's just theater, hoping no one sees the hypocrisy. |
11-30-2007, 02:32 PM
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Faux outrage is all the rage nowadays. |
11-30-2007, 02:35 PM
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I don't understand why people don't just bike across the world, like in the olden days. |
11-30-2007, 02:46 PM
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Quote: erik_kosberg said
 Faux outrage is all the rage nowadays. | So apparently is faux environmentalism. |
12-03-2007, 12:57 PM
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From the London Telegraph A blast of hot air at Bali's climate conference - Telegraph
"The Bali meeting is not really about doing anything, it is about feeling smug and getting paid for it." |
01-14-2008, 04:31 PM
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From the Sydney Morning Herald: Answer to hot air was in fact a chilling blunder - Environment - smh.com.au Quote: |
The air-conditioning system installed to keep more than 10,000 delegates cool used highly damaging refrigerant gases - as lethal to the atmosphere as 48,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, and nearly the equivalent of the emissions of all aircraft used to fly delegates to Indonesia.
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