Monday, world leaders met in Paris for the United Nations conference on climate change. World leaders left carbon footprints all over the place, creating so much CO2 emissions, that “offsets” will be paid into an Adaptation Fund. A what????
The irony is that in a day where the world has access to teleconferencing, where no CO2 is spent except for the words coming out of their mouths, world leaders opt to fly and emit gas, rather than stay home and converse in a more efficient and cost effective manner.
Our own champion of hypocrisy, Obama, emitted so much gas on his plane flight, that his very speech at the U.N. will be nothing but hotair in comparison to the CO2 he has let loose.
Obama’s Paris jaunt will send more CO2 into the atmosphere than 31 American homes‘ energy usage for an entire year. The president’s trip is equivalent to burning 368,331 pounds of coal or 797 barrels of oil, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon footprint calculator.
Just one leg of the president’s Sunday trip to Paris emitted 189 tons of CO2 after travelling 3,855 miles and burning 19,275 gallons of jet fuel, according to Daily Caller News Foundation calculations based on past presidential flights. Obama’s return flight to Washington, D.C., would double the amount of CO2 burned to 378 tons — more than 72 cars driving for a year.
Don’t be alarmed however, there is good news. This carbon footprint will be taken care of by the French.
The U.N. says the “French government will offset all emissions from travel of registered participants, as well as those from the conference facilities and local operations” by giving money to the international body’s Adaptation Fund. This will “offset” the emissions from the Paris summit by March 2016, according to the U.N.
Feel better now?
Source: Daily Caller
Photo: thesun.co.uk
Taxpayers vacation, flying in planes, is climate change, why he’s not practicing, what he’s preaching.
Now, that’s the cause of global warming, and wasting our taxpayers money.
We have to confiscate his plane. Climate Change.
Hahahaha the carbon rules don’t apply to the elite