Google's green summit,the hypocrisy.

[texelburger]

Just reading in the papers,this,morning about the rich and famous who attended this event.Prince Harry,apparently,stayed on a 390ft super yacht which produces 3.3 tons of CO2 each hour when cruising.112 private jets arrived at Palermo airport for the event along a further 220 which landed at Trapani airport where they were then all whisked by helicopter to the Verdura resort which hosted the summit.These celebs are the very people telling us ordinary folk to reduce red meat to save the planet.
Oh the hypocrisy of the World we live in.

 

[Werzle]

Just reading in the papers,this,morning about the rich and famous who attended this event.Prince Harry,apparently,stayed on a 390ft super yacht which produces 3.3 tons of CO2 each hour when cruising.112 private jets arrived at Palermo airport for the event along a further 220 which landed at Trapani airport where they were then all whisked by helicopter to the Verdura resort which hosted the summit.These celebs are the very people telling us ordinary folk to reduce red meat to save the planet.
Oh the hypocrisy of the World we live in.

Yes but its old daisy chewing her cud in the field thats warming the planet, just ask the great unwashed brigade.

 

[Qman]

How ungrateful can you be?

These ultra rich people have to spend their precious time flying in their gas guzzling private jets and super yachts to a 6 star hotel complex on a beautiful island to help all the poor people of the world. What do they get for their trouble, just criticism from the people they are helping by telling us to eat less meat and fly less. In fact they will tell us to go on holiday to Blackpool or Skegness as long as you go on a bus or train.

Prince Harry, an example for us all.

 

[Qman]

It looks nice I think I might pop over myself. One nice thing is they press your evening wear when you arrive, how could one manage without that?

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[farenheit]

I guess it's a matter of false economies. Private jets are relatively efficient ways of travelling around. If each of those business leaders that attend are motivated to make a tiny change to their respective businesses then the overall effect will far outweigh the carbon cost of the summit itself. I know it looks hypocritical but sometimes you have to look beyond the buzzwords of it. Helicopters and Fancy resorts are usually also used because they can provide the security needed for these types of things.

 

[Qman]

It's not themselves who they expect to cut down, it is you and me.

 

[Lazy Sod]

Harry,apparently,stayed on a 390ft super yacht which produces 3.3 tons of CO2 each hour when cruising.

I don't think that figure can be right. Even if it used 3.2 tonnes of fuel per hour (which I doubt), the output wouldn't all be CO2.

 

[texelburger]

I don't think that figure can be right. Even if it used 3.2 tonnes of fuel per hour (which I doubt), the output wouldn't all be CO2.

That was the figure quoted in the Sunday Papers,their figures not mine.

 

[farmerm]

That was the figure quoted in the Sunday Papers,their figures not mine.

Well if it is printed in the Sunday Papers it must be fact.

 

[boumaticboy]

I guess it's a matter of false economies. Private jets are relatively efficient ways of travelling around. If each of those business leaders that attend are motivated to make a tiny change to their respective businesses then the overall effect will far outweigh the carbon cost of the summit itself. I know it looks hypocritical but sometimes you have to look beyond the buzzwords of it. Helicopters and Fancy resorts are usually also used because they can provide the security needed for these types of things.

Haha what crap

 

[farenheit]

I'm glad I did a bit of reading into this. What a jumble of tabloid rumours. If someone can find me one part of the story that is actually true I'll be impressed. The rumour is that Harry stayed on a 300 foot yacht called Eos, owned by Barry Diller. This is a sailing yacht with backup Diesel engines which would unlikely to be running in dock, it would just be electric required, probably plugged in through a mains supply.

In any case, Barry Diller denies that Harry was even on the ship. Then the story says "a 390 foot yacht would emit 3.3T of Co2 per hour". Well, the ship was supposedly 300 foot, so that is a pointless fact. And there is only one 390 foot super yacht in existence, called A. So not a massive data set to go on there. But like I said, he apparently didn't even stay on a ship. I guess that if a big yacht burnt 200 gallons per hour (800L and the conversion rate is 2.2kg per litre of diesel) then maybe it would be about 60% accurate but that would be running at full steam which these dock yachts rarely are.

But like I said, if you think beyond the headline and start to look at whether actually a helicopter is quite an efficient way of transporting people with high security requirements rather than several cars and police outriders, then it doesn't really seem so bad.

Its a cheap shot with very little to back it up.

Stop reading the Express !

 

[Exfarmer]

When carbon in fuel burns , it takes up 2 molecules of Oxygen.
Approx relative weight is 12 for carbon 16 for oxygen,
So burning one tonne of carbon produces 4.4 tonnes of CO2
Diesel is approximately C14H30
But Hydrogen weighs 1 to Carbons 12
And now my brain hurts and someone else can do the maths

 

[ILovebaling]

True or not in full or in part, instead of flying half way round the world and back could they not have done a conference call on Skype instead?

 

[Canada Farmer]

I guess it's a matter of false economies. Private jets are relatively efficient ways of travelling around. If each of those business leaders that attend are motivated to make a tiny change to their respective businesses then the overall effect will far outweigh the carbon cost of the summit itself. I know it looks hypocritical but sometimes you have to look beyond the buzzwords of it. Helicopters and Fancy resorts are usually also used because they can provide the security needed for these types of things.

Eh, that's working on the assumption that any of these people are of any real importance and let alone that they actually come up with anything that makes a difference.
Would be interesting to know how much money, time and resources is being wasted every day around the world on implementing policies that make absolutely no difference to the environment and society.
Or alternatively for example, how much does it cost the UK not to implement Brexit???

 

[Qman]

True or not in full or in part, instead of flying half way round the world and back could they not have done a conference call on Skype instead?

They always have these does at exotic places, didn't they once have a climate change meeting in Tahiti? You never heard of them meeting in Rochdale or Rotherham do you?

 

[Yale]

They always have these does at exotic places, didn't they once have a climate change meeting in Tahiti? You never heard of them meeting in Rochdale or Rotherham do you?

Should have had it in Whaley Bridge and let that dam rip.

 

[Still Farming]

 

[Exfarmer]

They always have these does at exotic places, didn't they once have a climate change meeting in Tahiti? You never heard of them meeting in Rochdale or Rotherham do you?

I am afraid that if the NFU had a big promotion for British farming in places like the Caribbean, there would be a huge surge in reporters who suddenly found British Beef was the best thing since sliced bread.
But who will pick up the bill? The vegans and climate change etc are hugely funded, and very often you will find it is big business promoting it.

 

[curlietailz]

Virtual reality is so far advanced every delegate could stay in a studio close to home and “be” at the conference “virtually”

They don’t need to go in person

 

[Exfarmer]

Virtual reality is so far advanced every delegate could stay in a studio close to home and “be” at the conference “virtually”

They don’t need to go in person

What, and miss a good pee up with all the celebs!