I love how these yahoos yammer about Doing Something but that’s only for Other People
‘Trump is against humankind’: World leaders at climate summit take swipes at absent president
Donald Trump isn’t at the global climate summit in Brazil. But he was on the minds of some of his fellow world leaders Thursday, who used their time on stage to try to isolate the U.S. president and his hard-line opposition to their agenda.
In speeches meant to highlight their support for efforts to halt rising temperatures, a few of the heads of state at the COP30 climate talks in the Amazonian port city of Belém could not resist the chance to admonish the U.S. president directly.
“Mr. Trump is against humankind,” said Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who pointed to the American president’s absence from the gathering and called for an economy free of oil and natural gas.
And how did Petro get to Belem? I’m betting not in a sailing ship
Gabriel Boric, Chile’s president, took Trump to task for a September speech to the U.N. General Assembly in which the U.S. leader denounced the notion of human-caused climate change as a “con job” and a “hoax made up by people with evil intentions.”
“That is a lie,” Boric said, emphasizing the importance of science and facts. “We might have legitimate discussions about how to face these things, but we cannot deny them.”
Did he take a bike or an EV?
When asked for comment, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers responded that “President Trump will not allow the best interest of the American people to be jeopardized by the Green Energy Scam.
“These Green Dreams are killing other countries, but will not kill ours thanks to President Trump’s commonsense energy agenda!” she said by email.
I just don’t get it: time and time again those with a platform never say “hey, did y’all in the media ask how these people whining and saying we need to Do Something got there?” The Trump admin could have included photos of the private jets for all these wackos.
The speeches from a handful of leaders displayed, at times, the anger and dismay that countries feel about the U.S. breaking its promises and attempting to undermine the global effort to tackle global warming. Other leaders tried to brush off the American absence as simply an act of economic self-harm.
Obama promised. It never went through the US Senate, so, if Obama wants to do something in his own life, have at it.
Just a small number of European leaders turned up, while some other countries have sent ministerial representatives. Canada’s Mark Carney, a former U.N. climate representative, stayed home. The EU’s 27 member countries could not agree on a climate goal to present at the conference until Wednesday morning — and only after watering down existing pollution-cutting rules to get a deal. Also absent is Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose country tops the U.S. as the world’s No. 1 greenhouse gas polluter.
But, hey, around 40K other people will be taking long fossil fueled trips to see and be seen in cult.
For the last 7 years all international flights have has an added 2% carbon offset surcharge. The cost is usually unnoticed.
The average American spends about 4000dollsrs per year on energy. The price to carbon offset woul DC be about $200 extra.
“Your mileage may vary”
Johnny-hairy-smith……And there’s no carbon that’s really “offset”, as the aircraft emits the same amount of CO2 either way.
The question on your offsets isn’t really the cost, but the alleged effectiveness.
How many of these outraged world leaders actually reduced their own countries’ emissions to match the promises they made in the big Paris COP meeting?
Hey, it’s great! A bunch of high muckety-mucks there with their mistresses in tow, enjoying a five-star resort vacation to do nothing but blather on about what they will do but never actually accomplish.
Is St Greta going to be there to yell, “How dare you?” again? Maybe they’ll seat her next to the Israeli delegation.