Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane. If you fly coach from Los Angeles to Paris and back, you’ve just emitted 3 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, 10 times what an average Kenyan emits in an entire year.

-Peter Kalmus Go To Site

But the 10,000 or so Durban attendees -- official delegates, U.N. and government officials, journalists, NGO types, and other hangers-on -- will have a grand old time: two weeks of feasting, partying, living it up in luxury hotels, and greeting old friends at this 17th reunion -- all at someone else's expense.

  Statesmen will arrive on the last day to sign important-sounding communiqués and quickly depart before having to explain just how they will "save the climate" and humanity.

-S. Fred Singer Go To Site

Cancun climate change summit: scientists call for rationing in developed world - Telegraph

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Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions.

Cancun COP16 attendees fall for the old “dihydrogen monoxide” petition as well as signing up to cripple the U.S. Economy | Watts Up With That?

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The second project was as successful as the first. It was euphemistically entitled “Petition to Ban the Use of Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)” (translation water). It was designed to show that if official U.N. delegates could be duped by college students into banning water, that they could essentially fall for anything, including pseudo-scientific studies which claim to show that global warming is man-caused.

Cancun Climate Conference 'using as much energy as a village for a year' - Telegraph

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More than 190 countries are meeting in the luxury resort for two weeks to discuss the best way to bring down global carbon emissions.

The total carbon footprint of the conference, according to the Mexican Government, is 25,000 tonnes.

Cancun talks start with a call to the gods

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"the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you -- because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools."

PARTY in Cancun!

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Their current theme is that developed nations should adopt rationing as a way to reduce standards of living.

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