Department for Climate Change in flight hypocrisy shocka!

[johnfm]

As with most government appointed, non-job departments tasked with wasting out tax revenue, their mantra seems to be "Do as I say, not as I do...."

article in the telegraph said:

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is in charge of a multimillion advertising campaign telling the country to cut down on carbon intensive activities, such as taking domestic flights.

But last year officials from DECC took just under 1,200 domestic flights, including 26 return flights to Manchester that can be reached in two-and-a-half hours by train.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/clima...

[odyssey2200]

And I bet they leave their office lights on all night.

[Bing o]

Ah yes, but with the price of flights, it may have been cheaper than the train...

[tom2019]

Bing o said:

Ah yes, but with the price of flights, it may have been cheaper than the train...

But they are trying to make everyone else pay for this co2 bullst , so why don't they do thier bit, maybe becasue they know its all bks

[Targarama]

Ah but everything is OK as they have used carbon offsetting

[eccles]

Is the train any cleaner than air travel?

[Dogwatch]

They say they've reduced the number of [i]domestic[/] flights from 2000 to 1200. Think I'd be more impressed if they'd knocked off a zero instead.

Still, it's only taxpayer's money and there's plenty of that isn't there?

[Targarama]

eccles said:

Is the train any cleaner than air travel?

Yeah, because it creates nasties at ground level and not 30,000 feet. So I've heard.

[Jasandjules]

The only shock is that people think the Govt Climate Change Dept. staff hypocrisy is shocking.