The amount of pollution by UN meeting!!
The amount of pollution put into the air by the ever loving UN for their meeting on global warming is the total of 20,000 cars for a year.
Am I the only one who see's the irony in this. We live in a world of telecommuting and confrencing. Why the hell did these "people" have to fly to Bali (tropical resort) to discuss global warming and polution..
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aPbfclqokwcw
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.
The delegates each will produce an average 4.07 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or CO2, to reach the resort island 950 kilometers (600 miles) from Jakarta, according to estimates e- mailed to Bloomberg by the UN agency holding the conference.
Some of the 187 nations participating in the two-week forum promised to offset their so-called carbon footprint by
planting trees or
buying emission credits.
The symbolic actions won't help stop global warming, some scientists say.
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It's very hard for the public to understand that you come together with so many people to a very distant place and cause a lot of emissions, and at the same time talk about emission reductions,'' Artur Runge-Metzger, head of climate strategy for the European Commission, said yesterday in an interview in Bali, adding that he had offset his own emissions
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