Saving the planet involves a lot of luxury travelGood work by...

Saving the planet involves a lot of luxury travel

Good work by the Australian Taxpayers Association to hold some green carpetbaggers to account:

JET-SETTING bureaucrats have been slammed for raking up 6.5 million kilometres in air travel - amassing 1000 tonnes of carbon emissions.

Officials from the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency spent $3.274 million last year, travelling the world to speak about the perils of a warming planet… The department also spent $265,000 accommodating its delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban in 2011.

The department’s staff took in some of the world’s premier holiday destinations, including Cancun in Mexico, the Maldives, Vanuatu, Miami and Grenada and Guyana in the Caribbean.

Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance director, Tim Andrews, who obtained the figures under FOI, described the department’s travel list as “an utter disgrace”.

Such a farce. So much money, so much hypocritical travel, so much luxury - and all to tell the rest of the world it should be poorer to stop the planet from a warming that hasn’t happened for a decade.

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