You just can't make this stuff up.

"Climate talks were hanging in the balance last night, as the world’s nations argued over who should take responsibility for reducing greenhouse gases.

But as world leaders talked into the night, it emerged that the 12-day summit in Peru had generated more carbon dioxide than an entire African country.

More than 12,500 politicians, diplomats, green activists and journalists flew to Lima for the United Nations summit, the latest in a 20-year series of annual climate meetings.

The talks have produced more than 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, the UN admitted, giving the Lima summit the largest carbon footprint of any meeting in the two-decade history of the negotiations.

That is more than the emissions produced by entire nations such as Malawi, Sierra Leone, Fiji or Barbados over the same 12-day period.

The summit is to produce a legally-binding treaty forcing every nation in the world to reduce greenhouse gases.

The talks were scheduled to have finished last night, but were expected to overrun into the weekend as the 192 nations failed to reach an agreement on crucial points.

Britain alone has a team of 45 negotiators at the summit, including Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey and civil servants from three different Government departments."...

Each British official attending has carbon footprint of 4.9 tonnes over the 12 days in flights and hotel rooms – it would take the average UK citizen more than seven months to produce the same amount.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ima-summit.html

Someone tell top Environmentalists nag Charles to quit play acting he's Camilla's, uh, personal item, and do something about his countrymen's carbon emissions.