Pilots Blog

We're all doomed

It's the Copenhagen summit this week and you can bet your emissions free super green smoothie that aviation, in general, and business aviation in particular will be in for the usual emotionally warped pounding.

So let us consider the following - there will be 20,000 delegates. Over 90% of the delegates will arrive by air and they will require 1,200 limousines. Several hundred of these limos were driven hundreds of miles to reach Denmark. At the end of the event there will be, at the latest count, 110 world leaders in Copenhagen - they will arrive in 140 private jets and that number could double with the various entourages required and "celebrity" visits, but the organisers are being cagey about actual private jet movements.

In the UK, Prime Minister Gordon Brown got a bit hot under the collar at the weekend when questioned about some climate change scientific assertions and what he called the foolishness of "flat earthers". This is the very same chappie who is Hell bent on a third runway at Heathrow to accommodate a huge increase in flights and released Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al Megrahi in order to secure an oil (outputs hydrocarbons apparently) exploration contract in Libya for BP.

If we are to believe that the global warming we've seen over the past 30 years is man made then we can take pride in our leaders arriving by various carbon emitting forms of transport, getting in a huddle and then lecturing us on our misdeeds and imposing "green" taxes accordingly!