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Lima Climate Talks Set for Record Carbon Footprint
US News and World Report ^ | 12-9-2014 | AP

Posted on 12/09/2014 4:32:12 PM PST by plain talk

The current U.N. climate talks will be the first to neutralize all the greenhouse gas pollution they generate, offset by host country Peru's protection of forest at three different reserves, organizers say.

Now the bad news: The Lima conference is expected to have the biggest carbon footprint of any U.N. climate meeting measured to date ...

Standing in the midday sun here can get downright uncomfortable, but the Lima sun is not reliable. That's one reason solar panels were not used. For electricity, the talks are relying exclusively on diesel generators

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


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get a load of this - diesel generators? ha ha
1 posted on 12/09/2014 4:32:12 PM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk

Will they vote to Loot bank accounts ?


2 posted on 12/09/2014 4:36:35 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: plain talk
Was his stupidness there?


3 posted on 12/09/2014 4:39:33 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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To: molson209

The G20 already voted on that in November in Australia.

http://investmentwatchblog.com/nov-16-2014-g20-to-implement-a-new-policy-that-makes-bank-deposits-on-par-with-paper-investments/


4 posted on 12/09/2014 4:40:13 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: plain talk

U.N. climate talks - a lotta gas.


5 posted on 12/09/2014 4:44:13 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: plain talk

Will they at least pick up the delegates at the airport with llamas?


6 posted on 12/09/2014 5:10:19 PM PST by AU72
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they set up bike racks but only 40 bikes showed up


7 posted on 12/09/2014 5:15:21 PM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk

Hmmm...looks pretty quiet.

8 posted on 12/09/2014 5:18:36 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: plain talk


9 posted on 12/09/2014 6:09:46 PM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Iron Munro

That is a classic cartoon.


10 posted on 12/09/2014 6:16:13 PM PST by hawkaw
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To: plain talk

Oh , it’s the good old , I’ll eat an extra large Pizza and drink a Diet Coke insanity


11 posted on 12/09/2014 7:04:47 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: plain talk

...and jets to get there. They aren’t honest enough to include the monstrous amounts of pollution that they generated by using jet travel.


12 posted on 12/09/2014 10:58:46 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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Someone...anyone...reign-in these eco-hypocrites. They are making me laugh too much.


13 posted on 12/10/2014 11:57:45 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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