Hypocrisy at its finest

Well, leave it to Yahoo news to print headlines screaming doom and gloom again: "The last best chance: UN climate conference opens"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091207/ap_on_sc/climate

According to this AP story, "The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming."

Okey-dokey, let's take a look at this thing: "diplomats", and, undoubtedly, their assorted entourages from 192 nations, as well as "organizers" and their flunkies, traveled to Copenhagen for this two week boondoggle. What was their carbon footprint in making this so-called environmental pilgrimage? Really, was it necessary for so many people to use up so much of the world's resources to travel to Copenhagen, and spend taxpayer money for travel, room and board when there are modern technological advances such as teleconferencing, web conferencing, etc.?

I'll believe these so-called experts about the environment being in such dire shape when they themselves practice what they preach (that means you, Al Gore. What was up with traveling to accept the Nobel prize when it would have been much more environmentally friendly for you to have had them ship it to you and you could have had your little presentation via webcam?). Start actually saving the environment by working on minimizing your own carbon footprint. First step would be to stop spewing all this hot air; second would be to minimize your boondoggle travel to such conferences that could easily be attended without burning jet fuel.