As I wrote recently, if the most vocal tub-thumpers of the Climate Cult really believed their own rhetoric, then they’d do everything they could to reduce their personal ‘carbon footprint’. Instead, they conspicuously behave in the completely opposite fashion. Not least by treating themselves to apparently endless business class flying from luxury resort to luxury resort: always at someone else’s (the taxpayer’s) expense.
Exhibit A: deranged climate screecher UN climate chief Simon Stiell.
This demented trougher most recently shrieked at Australians that they will personally cause the world to “overheat” and that fruit will be a “once-a-year treat”. Yet, his declared pattern of near-continuous jet-setting makes his personal carbon footprint bigger than many countries.
I also pondered just how a former two-bit political flunky from an inconsequential banana republic got to the position of being able to scarf up apparently endless taxpayer-funded junkets.
UN climate chief Simon Stiell – who is pressuring Australia to end fossil fuel exports and lift emissions reduction targets to ensure the world doesn’t “overheat” – helped pass laws in his home country of Grenada offering tax breaks for oil and gas companies […] in mid-2017, Mr Stiell, as leader of government business in the Grenada Senate, led passage of the Caribbean nation’s hydrocarbon incentives bill, which provided tax breaks and other exemptions for companies to invest in oil and gas exploration.
In the same year, Grenada confirmed the discovery of natural gas reserves in the “Nutmeg field”, which has lured major investment from overseas companies.
So, did Stiell stand by his alarmist principles? Be buggered.
Speaking in the Grenada parliament when the hydro carbon incentives bill passed in 2017, Mr Stiell said the legislation was “not about one company … this will be about many different companies and those companies will subcontract”. “The oil and gas industry is a very complex thing. We are new to this so we have to find a way of being able to attract those persons with those skills, with deep pockets to be able to carry out that work,” he said.
“But unless we create an environment for those investors to explore, to determine the potential that we have, we’ll continue for another 20 years this discussion about what we have and what it could do for us, what it may do for us, what it may not do for us […]
Asked in 2019 about oil and gas arrangements, a contract with Russian-linked Global Petroleum Group and who its partners were, Mr Stiell told the Grenada Senate that “GPG has partnered with the Chinese company Guangzhou to make the two billion ($US2bn) investment required to extract the petroleum in the subsea areas”.
So, it’s one rule for Bananastan, but another for Australia? So it appears.
Mining industry leaders on Wednesday accused Mr Stiell – appointed UN Framework Convention on Climate Change executive secretary in mid-2022 – of lecturing Australians while “supporting tax breaks for oil and gas companies, and whose home country generates almost all of its energy from imported diesel fuel”.
Well, they’ve got to get the Avtur from somewhere. Those business class flights aren’t gonna happen without the fossil fuels Stiell tells the rest of us not to extract.
Since becoming the UN’s top climate official, Mr Stiell has maintained an extremely busy travel schedule that has recorded him flying across the globe to Europe, Africa, Asia, the Subcontinent, North America, Oceania and South America.
Senior Australian business figures said instead of travelling halfway around the world to Sydney and Canberra this week, “a more climate-conscious speech could have just had him giving the speech by Zoom or Teams”.
Judge the Climate Cult by how they act, not the finger-wagging lectures they bellow.
