FOUR HUNDRED private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of 'hypocrisy'

Climate delegates accused of hypocrisy as 400 private jets in Egypt for COP27 Numerous posts on social media criticised delegates for travelling by private jet Posts and reports included various estimates for the number of such planes

Climate delegates were accused of hypocrisy after 400 private jets arrived in Egypt for COP27.

Numerous posts on social media criticised delegates for travelling by private jet to the UN climate summit.

Posts and reports included various estimates for the number of such planes bringing delegates to the gathering in the beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Climate Action Against Disinformation, a group that analyses trends in false information on social media, said in a report on Thursday that narratives of supposed 'hypocrisy and elitism' were one of the main focuses of climate-sceptic messages during COP27.

Egyptian sources corroborated widespread claims that some 400 private jets landed during COP27.

Some media cited lower estimates by flight-trackers, though there may have been private flights that were not logged by monitoring services.

One misleading post in Spanish claimed there were as many as 1,500 private jets. It was accompanied by an old photograph of planes from an aviation forum in Las Vegas.

'More than 400 private jets landed in the past few days in Egypt,' a source close to the Egyptian aviation authorities, who asked not to be named, told AFP on Thursday.

'There was a meeting ahead of COP27, and officials were expecting those jets and made some arrangements in Sharm el-Sheikh airport to welcome those planes.'

You’d Better Be Prepared for the Perfect Transportation Storm
By John Green

We’ve all heard of the game “Where’s Waldo?” Well, I’ve got a better question. As we look upon the hordes of federal parasites dedicated public servants, where’s Pete? We’re seeing the convergence of some dangerous circumstances — a perfect storm, if you will. But it’s not a convergence of weather patterns, but problems with the transportation infrastructure. Yet Pete (Buttigieg) is nowhere to be found — at least not anywhere near the problems he’s supposed to prevent.

Loaded ships are still waiting off the coast of California because there aren’t enough trucks that meet the state’s emission standards to unload them — and it’s going to get worse in 2023, when more rules kick in. The ports are choked with cargo containers while perishables spoil and store shelves run empty. It’s a government-created problem. What is the government’s solution? Mandate that port employees work overtime loading the trucks that aren’t there. It’s government problem-solving 101.

The airline industry is plagued with cancelations and late flights. And it’s not because of climate change (bad weather) or mechanical failures. It’s because they don’t have enough pilots. When we tried to control a virus by closing the country, pilots retired, others refused to comply with the vaccine mandate and were fired, and some unknown number took the vax and found they could no longer pass their physicals. But this time, Pete is on the case. He’s told the airlines that the Department of Transportation will fine them if they don’t hire more of the pilots that don’t exist. That should light a fire under their executive tails.

But the deadliest transportation storm front is the approaching railroad strike. The Biden administration averted a strike in September by brokering a last-minute deal with the railroad unions. Now Joe and Pete just need all 12 of the unions to approve the deal to avoid a strike — by November 19. There’s just one problem. It’s an “all or none” situation, and two unions have already rejected the deal.

If the deal falls through, 33 million tons of cargo per week will not be delivered. That’s a lot of baby formula and toilet paper. Factories will close, store shelves will run empty, power plants will go offline, and construction will stop. Joe’s administration is lining up alternatives to trains if the railroads shut down. They assure us that if they fumble this — and they may — we’ll just ship everything by truck. But there’s a problem with that also. It would take an additional 460,000 trucks to move the freight that trains move. Bumper to bumper, that number of trucks would stretch across America — twice. It may take Freightliner a few days to crank those out.

Even if we had those trucks, they would use five times more fuel than trains (see this and this). That would be the fuel we don’t have, because Joe decided to wage war on the industry that produces the fuel — because he thinks he can control the weather that way. Are you following that logic?

And speaking of fuel, that’s another problem. As we move into winter, we are facing a diesel fuel shortage that is becoming critical. The Energy Information Administration has issued a report stating that as of October, we have only a 25-week reserve of fuel, and shortages are expected this winter. That’s the lowest reserve America has had in 14 years.
If we run out, crops won’t be harvested, and supplies won’t be delivered — even if the trains are still running. We’re just one natural disaster away from petrochemical Armageddon. What steps is the government taking?

• Canceling pipelines
• Stopping the drilling on public lands
• Restricting fracking
• Selling our strategic reserve to China

But the Biden administration has a solution for the fuel shortage. Buy electric cars, which run on electricity generated by burning the fuel Biden’s trying to eliminate.
This is what a man-made storm convergence looks like. As cargo piles up in ports, a rail strike is looming — because of government dereliction. We don’t have the trucks to move the cargo — because of ill conceived emissions standards. If we did have the trucks, we couldn’t fuel them — because our government has decided that it prefers batteries to the fossil fuels that charge the batteries.

It’s a perfect storm of life-threatening crises — brought to us entirely by the Biden administration. So who in our government should be fixing this mess? That would be our intrepid secretary of transportation, Pete Buttegeig, who has never fixed anything in his life but checks all of the required intersectionality boxes.

So, let’s return to our opening question. While all of these problems have grown, where has Pete been?

• Attending the grand opening of an LGBT bar
• Taking maternity leave
• Looking for new ways to tax motorists
• Making sure our highways aren’t racist

That’s what passes for an “adults back in charge” administration these days. It kind of makes our outrage about mean tweets seem quaint — no?

So when the stupid front approaching from the west, collides with the dereliction front approaching from the east, and the transportation perfect storm dumps on all of us, we’ll find that

• We can’t buy groceries.
• We can’t heat our homes.
• We can’t go to work, even if there were something to buy.

When President “Soft-Serve” takes another long weekend while we shiver in our dark homes, we’ll know the consequence of entrusting fools to run our country. Only the grace of God will prevent those consequences from becoming grave this winter.

The sad part is that all this is done on purpose to run this country in to the ground and push certain agendas like “Build back better” what’s never going to happen or the “New world order” or “Climate change” etc. just some more pipe dreams. And yet, ignorant people keep voting for the same crooked bastards who are pushing and supporting these schemes

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