Friday, December 18, 2009

The legitimacy of Copenhagen

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/tuvalu-no-longer-small-fry-on-world-stage/story-e6frg6so-12258111593

To get a real feel for the legitimacy of this crowd with most arriving on private CO2 emitting jets and have had to have limos imported in because there were not enough of these large CO2 emitting vehicles to carry the delegates in the style they wish, Can you say HYPOCRITE, one should consider this.

The lead negotiator for the small island nation of Tuvalu, the bow-tie wearing Ian Fry, broke down as he begged delegates to take tough action.
"I woke up this morning crying," and that's not easy for a grown man to admit," Mr. Fry said on Saturday, as his eyes welled with tears.
"The fate of my country rests in your hands," he concluded, as the audience exploded with wild applause.
But the part-time PhD scholar at the Australian National University actually resides in Queanbeyan, NSW, where he's not likely to be troubled by rising sea levels because the closest beach at Batemans Bay is a two-hour, 144km drive away. Asked whether he had ever lived in Tuvalu, his wife told The Australian last night she would "rather not comment"....

Still, it's a long way from the endangered atolls of Tuvalu, with his neighbor Michelle Ormay confirming he's lived in Queanbeyan for more than a decade, while he has worked his way up to being "very high up in climate change."

The neighbor's description of the fake from Tuvalu is also noteworthy. She says he is "very high up in climate change," as though it's a business, which of course it is.

1 comment:

Baxter said...

Wonderful, Mark. Lets have one isolated anecdote (if it is even true) discredit the whole Copenhagen Conference. Such information is useless. I hope and expect that you know that.

Reagan loved to use anecdotes, usually to illustrate a point that was demonstrably false.

Please cut and paste the link to learn more about the scientific consensus concerning climate change.

http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf