{"id":9,"date":"2007-12-06T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T21:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-09-30T19:45:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T01:45:46","slug":"do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-united-nations-meeting-on-climate-change-will-cause-as-much-pollution-as-20000-cars-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-united-nations-meeting-on-climate-change-will-cause-as-much-pollution-as-20000-cars-in-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Do as I say, not as I do. United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"50\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/images\/warming.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"47\" \/>We found this amusing &#8211; a little tidbit from Bloomberg News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The delegates each will produce an average 4.07 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or CO2, to reach the resort island 950 kilometers (600 miles) from Jakarta, according to estimates e- mailed to Bloomberg by the UN agency holding the conference.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601170&amp;refer=home&amp;sid=aPbfclqokwcw\">You can read the news report by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found this amusing &#8211; a little tidbit from Bloomberg News: Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year. The delegates each will produce an average 4.07 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or CO2, to reach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-united-nations-meeting-on-climate-change-will-cause-as-much-pollution-as-20000-cars-in-a-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do as I say, not as I do. United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}