Someone once wrote about the jet-setting, celebrity, global-warming alarmists, “I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”

I posted earlier about the “sky is falling,” forthcoming report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. The looming apocalypse of global warming is so imminent, we’re told, that unless drastic measures are taken right now to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, “catastrophic” consequences will begin by 2020.

But that’s a trivial concern compared with the need for 10,000 UN bureacrats to have their tax-paid, global-warming conference at one of the plushest resorts on earth, Bali. That the UN is based in New York, and that the bulk of the conference delegates live in New York, is apparently of little consequence when it comes to telling others to live a way that the UN itself won’t adopt. Scott Kirwin points out the global-warming consequences of the UN’s air travel alone:

For this single trip, each participant from New York City will use 1,731 kg of fuel, producing 5,282 kg of CO2 with the warming effect of 16,146 kg. …

But 10,000 people are expected to attend the conference and so far I’ve been unable to find any type of geographic breakdown. So I’m going to make some assumptions:

4,000 participants from New York - that’s where UN headquarters is.1,000 from Los Angeles - for press, Hollywood UN groupies, and UN personnel stationed at west coast consulates.3,000 from Rome - for European NGO, UN and official contingents1,000 from Hong Kong - that will cover participants and press from Japan, China and SE Asia1,000 from Delhi - which will cover South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. …

I will update this post with better numbers as I find them. However my estimate is that the UN conference in Bali will spew over 40,000 metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in air travel alone. This CO2 has the warming effect of just over 122,000 metric tons of CO2.

According to this Wikipedia article, trees planted in the tropics remove 22kg of CO2 from the atmosphere per year. That’s roughly 100 trees to remove one metric ton of CO2.

So in order to cover the 40,000 metric tons we would have to plant roughly 4,000,000 trees in the tropics.