Meetings in nice foreign places are exactly the harvest the warmist carpetbaggers are after. That, and free cash.
The wheels are now falling off the green bandwagon:Â
Its pointlessness with a very nasty edge, sez Andrew Bolt.
Jooliar Gillard is going because  its  the Gillard pointlessness tour—  the announcement of the marine parks to quite deliberately enable her to grandstand and preen in Rio.   Greens feast at another Rio trough
In other news:
Warming Guru Retracts:
“I’m not worried about sea-level rises,” he laughs. “At worst, I think it will be 2ft a century.”
 Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory:Â
• “We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant.”
• “So-called ‘sustainable development’ … is meaningless drivel.”
• “Whenever the UN puts its finger in, it seems to become a mess.”
• “I detest the Liberal Democrats.”
Tim Blair has more: Â OPPOSITE LOVELOCK
(video) Aussies who have turned to Islam
— Qur’an 6:70 “drink (only) boiling water” (unbelievers)
“And fight them until there is no more fitnah and
the religion is all for Allah”
Al Anfaal: 39
2:216 “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it”
BUT “Deal you gently with them (unbelievers) for a while” 86:13-17
http://newstime.co.nz/aussies-who-have-turned-to-islam.html
In Rio at least the working girls can put the price up when the gravey train arrives its all on the tax payer thanks suckers