Yesterday's Telegraph.co.uk posted an article on the carbon footprint of the Copenhagen climate-change summit. The local limousine company, which normally has twelve vehicles on the road, will have two hundred at the beginning of the summit. The total number of limousines for the week is already over 1,200. Since there are not enough limousines in the country to meet the demand, they are having to drive them in from Germany and Sweden. Among all the limousines, there are five electric cars or hybrids. To quote Majken Friss Jorgensen, the managing director of the largest limousine service in the city, "The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."
The airport says it is expecting more than 140 extra private jets during the conference.
The article states:
"According to the organisers, the eleven-day conference, including the participants' travel, will create a total of 41,000 tonnes of "carbon dioxide equivalent", equal to the amount produced over the same period by a city the size of Middlesbrough."
I guess leading by example is not a major tenet of the global-warming crowd!
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