The New York Times editorial board is warning President Donald Trump’s rolling back of the Obama administration’s climate agenda “imperils the planet.”
However, The Daily Caller News Foundation asked The NYTimes if it would ever back a powerful gesture — a ban on private jets.
Its editorial board, which represents the views of publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., opined on the signing of the Paris climate accord in 2015 before calling 2018 “one of the most discouraging years in recent memory for anyone who cares about the health of the planet.”
It was “a year marked by President Trump’s destructive, retrograde policies, by backsliding among big nations, by fresh data showing that carbon dioxide emissions are still going up, by ever more ominous signs,” the editorial board wrote Wednesday.
If global warming is truly the urgent, existential crisis The Times’ editorial board makes it out to be, it should be willing to condemn the use of private jets, right?
No one really needs a private jet and flying commercial usually comes with a much lower carbon footprint.
The Times’ editorial board and press representatives did not respond to TheDCNF’s inquiry. Interestingly enough, The Times offered 50 wealthy readers the chance to join its writers on a luxury private jet tour around the world earlier in 2018.
Travelers joining the $135,000-per-person world tour got to ride in style on an “exclusively chartered Boeing 757 with first-class, fully lie-flat seat.” The world tour was set to begin at Times headquarters in New York City on Feb. 8 and last through March 5.
The tour was expected to net The Times upwards of $6.7 million, which is part of Sulzberger Jr.’s plan to “monetize” the paper’s name in an era where news agencies are struggling.
In fact, Sulzberger gave guests a behind-scenes-tour of The Times’ headquarters before their 26-day tour, according to a brochure.
“Private jet travel allows for a more authentic and intimate journey than you have ever experienced,” reads The Times’ brochure for its global junket.
“Our privately chartered jet accommodates just 50 guests, which, combined with The Times’s familiarity with newsmakers and events, allows us to pack your itinerary with exclusive, invitation-only experiences, including a private dinner in Bogotá’s Salt Cathedral, a special Australian culinary experience and an exclusive reception with a former personal assistant to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,” reads the brochure.
Obviously, banning private jet travel wouldn’t solve global warming if what the United Nations predicts is accurate, but lamenting rising emissions while also sponsoring the conspicuous consumption of thousands of gallons of jet fuel seems more than a little hypocritical.
A Boeing 757 normally seats up to 295 passengers and can burn over 720 gallons of fuel per hour. The Times’ junket will fly guests more than 29,000 miles, emitting the very same carbon dioxide Times’ writers often sound the alarm about.
Among the writers accompanying the luxury tour was columnist Nicholas Kristof, who spoke to guests about global warming on the remote Easter Island.
Kristof’s column said because of global warming, “[w]e fear for the ocean food chain and worry about feedback loops that will irreversibly accelerate this process, yet still we act like Easter Islanders hacking down their trees.”
TheDCNF previously asked 31 businesses, foundations and individuals that back the Paris climate accord if they’d be willing to back a ban on private jets. Virtually all of them ignored the question, including representatives for former Vice President Al Gore.
To keep projected global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, the main goal of the Paris accord, the U.N. says emissions need to dramatically come down. The world is currently on track for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, according to the U.N.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who made fighting global warming a central part of his campaign, also came under fire for spending nearly $300,000 on private jet travel in one month.
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The New York Pravda(Times) its no longer news anymore its liberal left propeganda they waste thousands of trees many yards of paper and gallons of ilk each day to print their daily lies and waste away their Freedom of the Press spewing to venom at Trump over rolling back unneeded and useless regulations over a threat that appears only on paper and in the minds of the Eco-Wackos with their minds in Stupidland
“In 2018, the New York Times began an inclusion project to add more ‘overlooked’ women to its ongoing Obituary column.[133] Many prominent women are being added and there is an open call for the public to suggest further additions.”
Well hell! I got some suggestions. How about including Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris for starters. They owe a great deal of their election success to the dead.
This is another example of the elitist concept that they are exempt from taking action on anthropological climate change. That is something for the little people to do. It also shows the typical way the environmental left handles facts that are inconsistent with their agenda. They ignore them as they have ignored the questions about private jet travel.
Selecting a plane the size of a 757 makes the elitist action of using the private jet even worse. If the airplane can seat 295 passengers and it is only carrying 50, that maked the passenger “carbon” foot print almost 6 times greater than a fully loaded commercial flight.
I’ll also comment on the 2 degree goal of the Paris Treaty. I was following the climate change fraud as they goal was adopted. There were no studies that I’m aware to justify this goal, not even junk science. It was pure politics.
Why do certain successful capitalists wear the socialist mask? They want more.
Some friends that my parents had provide the answer to this question. They had a good income so were upper middle class. They felt guilty because of what they had even though they had earned it. Because of their guilt, they felt that the government should take money from them to give it to others who had less. Unfortunately, they believed that the government should take money not just from them, but everyone who was middle class or better in order to give to those who had less.
Socialism has diminished the social purpose of charitable giving . Politicians have wormed their way into it too far . The giver and the receiver are separated deliberately, for votes.
The NYT
IS
a politically propagandist rag
written and edited by
leftist extremists with an
anti-American agenda, namely
Globalism and one world Communist oppression
This the same agenda of the
American Communist Party
who call themselves
DEMOCRATS
“If global warming is truly the urgent, existential crisis The Times’ editorial board makes it out to be, it should be willing to condemn the use of private jets, right?”
No. It’s obvious the NYT never really cared about the health of the planet and President Trump has only been in office for two years. The NYT has been tapping emotion to nullify rational thought to promote a political agenda for MUCH MUCH longer than that. Trump’s “destructive, retrograde policies” are helping to expose the fake news “reporting” of the CO2 global cooling-warming-change crisis LIE.
This late in the “game”, had the NYT really cared about the planet, NYT readers would be wholly educated in the science behind this “existential crisis” of CO2 to the health of the planet because the NYT should have been reporting on the scientific bases for the CO2 global cooling-warming-change crisis claims. But the NYT never got in to the “details” of “how”. The NYT editorial board, which represents the views of Progressives, not the health of the planet, intentionally failed in their journalistic duty to deliver unbiased and thorough reporting of the agenda behind the global cooling-warming-change crisis claims from day one.
So the NYT, not Trump, is responsible (as are other participating fake news outlets) for “their feeling” 2018 is “one of the most discouraging years in recent memory for anyone who cares about the health of the planet.”