{"id":952886,"date":"2021-11-02T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=952886"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:28:49","slug":"prophet-of-doom-boris-johnson-to-fly-home-on-private-jet-from-glasgow-climate-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prophet-of-doom-boris-johnson-to-fly-home-on-private-jet-from-glasgow-climate-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophet of Doom Boris Johnson to Fly Home on Private Jet from Glasgow Climate Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprophet-of-doom-boris-johnson-to-fly-home-on-private-jet-from-glasgow-climate-summit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=952886&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1163573552-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Boris Johnson \u2014 who proclaimed this week that the world is at \u201cone minute to midnight on that doomsday clock\u201d due to the alleged climate crisis \u2014 will travel back to London from the climate summit by private jet because a train journey would be too inconvenient due to \u201csignificant time restraints\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street confirmed on Monday that the Prime Minister will be flying back to London on a private jet from the COP26 meeting in Glasgow at the end of this week rather than opting for the more environmentally friendly method of taking a four and a half hour train journey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that the Prime Minister is able to move around the country and obviously we face significant time constraints,\u201d the spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/cop26-boris-johnson-prime-minister-fly-london-downing-street-b963750.html?amp\">said<\/a> per the <em>Evening Standard<\/em>, heedless of the fact that everyone else currently being told to fly less resorts to air travel for much the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street went on to defend the use of the private jet by claiming that it is one of the \u201cmost carbon-efficient planes of its size in the world\u201d and produces 15 per cent fewer emissions than the Prime Minister\u2019s other private jet, the Voyager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur approach to tackling climate change is to use technology so that we do not have to change how we use modes of transport, rather we use technology on things like electric vehicles so that we can still get to net-zero,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The jet in question is not an electric vehicle, however.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9875776397516\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bojo flies a jet from London to Cornwall\u2026 to lecture the world on climate change. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g5eRtD3mPn\">https:\/\/t.co\/g5eRtD3mPn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1402916680569872385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is not the first time Prime Minister Johnson has landed himself in hot water over the use of private jets domestically. In June, the PM flew on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/06\/10\/boris-johnson-criticised-for-flying-short-hop-from-london-to-discuss-climate-change\/\">private jet to Cornwall<\/a> for a meeting of G7 leaders in Cornwall rather than taking the five-hour train journey.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow has been beset by accusations of elitist hypocrisy, with hundreds of private jets descending upon the Scottish city.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/31\/private-jets-swarm-glasgow-for-cop26-emit-more-co2-than-scots-churn-out-in-a-year\/\">suggested<\/a>&nbsp;that the emissions produced by the climate summit\u2019s cavalcade of private jets will outpace the emissions produced by the average Scot in an entire year.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos arrived in Glasgow in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/11\/01\/jeff-bezos-takes-private-jet-to-cop26-for-climate-change-chat-with-prince-charles\/\">$65 million private jet<\/a> to meet with Britain\u2019s Prince Charles, who also travelled to the meeting by private jet.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the leaders of two of the world\u2019s top polluters, Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, both opted to skip the meeting in Scotland, meaning their carbon footprint for the summit will be far lower than Johnson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1428571428571\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">COP26 Reset: Prince Charles Calls for &#8216;Vast Military-Style Campaign&#8217; to &#8216;Radically Transform&#8217; Global Economy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P6bdFEU1KL\">https:\/\/t.co\/P6bdFEU1KL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1455189068736778243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson \u2014 who proclaimed this week that the world is at \u201cone minute to midnight on that doomsday clock\u201d due to the alleged climate crisis \u2014 will travel back &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}