BRITAIN - DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO

[CSPP Note:  Al Gore is an advisor to Great Britain on how to convert the masses to climate hysteria.  Apparently, he is also advising on hypocritical personal behavior.]

London Evening Standard, 25 March 2007

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The diplomat charged by the Government with lecturing the world on global

warming has been revealed as one of the biggest contributors to it.

John Ashton, whose role is to persuade other countries to reduce CO2 emissions,

has made so many foreign trips by air in his job that his carbon footprint is

already 30 times bigger than the UK average.

Figures obtained under Freedom of Information legislation show he has flown more

than 80,000 miles since his appointment last June. 

If he continues at this pace, he will clock up an annual mileage equivalent to

flying five times round the globe.

The 50-year-old former diplomat's travels have taken him to climate-change

conferences in Moscow, Stockholm, Beijing, Washington, Chicago, Berlin, Houston,

Amsterdam, Tokyo, Bombay, Delhi, Nairobi and Copenhagen. 

On five of his trips he accompanied Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, who was

responsible for his appointment.

By the end of his first year in office, Mr Ashton's travel schedule will have

added 22.3 tons to his personal carbon footprint, compared with the average

Briton's 0.7 tons. 

Environmental campaigners say more use should have been made of

video-conferencing......