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Opinion: From ClimateGate to Carbonhagen
For the delegates to the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, inconvenient truths abound. Not the least of which is the prediction that attendees will generate a carbon footprint equal to all of Morocco's for 2006. And that's not even counting ClimateGate.

First Inconvenient Truth, by the numbers. Danish authorities have confirmed that at least 140 private jets, including Climate Mufti Al Gore's, will be shuttling back and forth many of the expected 16,500 delegates for the upcoming Carbonhagen Climate Change Slummit in Denmark. Since most delegates will be flying in, that averages out to approximately 16,500 falling polar bears, based on an average of 400kg of carbon generated per air passenger. Heads up, delegates! This Slummit is a Hard Hat Zone.

And let's face it, people, if you're a taxpayer-funded AGW egghead, bureaucrat or politician, flying in on a private jet and killing all those polar bears really isn't worth those sacred lost lives if you have to take a taxi or ride a bike the rest of the way. Correspondingly, the demand for carbon-belching stretch limos for the slummit is through the ozone hole. In fact, they're aren't enough in all of Denmark to fulfill the demand. Just 1200, that's it. But wait! Dozens mores are being driven in carbon-spewing luxury from all over Europe, just in time for the leather-seated Carbon Crusaders to save us all from our destructive CO2-generating habits!

In all, the UN estimates that the carbon footprint of the Carbonhagen Slummit should be roughly 40,584 tons of carbon-related emissions, or approximately the entire carbon output of the nation of Morocco for all of 2006. That comes out to 100,083.5 dead polar bears per 400kg of carbon emissions. Are there even that many polar bears on Planet Earth? Won't be by Wednesday! And all that's not even counting all the limos being driven to Carbonhagen from all over Europe, or all the CO2 about to be spewed by 16,500 blowhards. ...