Climate hypocrisy? Biden takes heat for carbon footprint at U.N. summit


President Biden is burning a lot of fossil fuels in the
name of fighting climate change.

The president was accused of hypocrisy for his 85-
vehicle motorcade last weekend at the Group of 20
summit in Rome, followed by his 21-car convoy
from Edinburgh to Glasgow , Scotland, for the U.N.
Conference of the Parties, or COP26, climate
confab. The BBC headline Tuesday declared:
“COP26: Onlookers transfixed by Biden’s 21-strong
motorcade,” while Fox News dubbed the
conference a “gas-guzzling get-together.”

The Wyoming Republican sent letters Monday to
eight senior administration officials asking about
the conference’s total cost to taxpayers; the
number of executive branch officials and staff
attending; and the emissions impact of their travel.

“In addition to the staggering cost of the
conference, I am concerned that what appears to
be a bloated US delegation will prove
counterproductive to the COP’s mission,” Mr.
Barrasso said in his letters.

“The conference is intended to ‘accelerate action
towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.’
However, these commitments strike a tone of
insincerity as a majority of COP26 delegates will
have contributed a significant amount of carbon
emissions to attend COP26,” he said.

The conservative lawmaker pointed out that many
people stopped flying during the COVID-19
pandemic in favor of teleconferencing, a more
environmentally friendly option.

“It is rather perplexing that in this new age of digital
communication and during an ongoing pandemic,
executive branch departments and agencies are
unnecessarily choosing to contribute directly to
carbon emissions and risk exposure to COVID-19,”
Mr. Barrasso said.

Meanwhile, the British press counted more than
400 climate-unfriendly private jets ferrying foreign
dignitaries and celebrities to Glasgow , some of
whom then took limousines to the conference at
the Scottish Event Campus. Among the luminaries
spotted in the “traffic jam” of private planes was
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, who traveled via
Gulf Stream jet.

“Conservative predictions suggest the fleet of
private jets arriving for COP26 will blast out 13,000
tonnes of carbon dioxide in total — equivalent to
the amount consumed by more than 1,600 Britons
in a year,” the British newspaper the Daily Mail
reported.

Other big names in attendance include American
actor Leonardo DiCaprio and British broadcaster Sir
David Attenborough, as well as a bevy of royals:
Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, better known as William and Kate, and
Prince Albert of Monaco. Swedish climate teen
activist Greta Thunberg was mobbed after arriving
Saturday — by train — for protests outside the
conference, telling BBC that she was not “officially”
invited.

Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Glasgow from
Rome on Air Force One with the president, not via
private jet, as some commentators alleged.
The climate summit, which runs Oct. 31-Nov. 12, is
expected to draw about 30,000 attendees.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/2/joe-biden-takes-heat-carbon-footprint-un-summit/

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