That wasn't "shaming Liberals" (on my part, anyway), it was shaming the 'Climate Czar' who received a 'Climate Change Leadership Award' award used a private jet that holds a small number of passengers & crew to get there. If they're going to tell everyone to pollute less, they should lead by example.
At this point, is there a good reason for him to even go to an award ceremony? Others do it remotely and that has happened long before COVID. Since video conferencing has come so far, I think a lot of travel for business and other meetings/events should be reduced- if emissions are to be reduced, all need to do their part and party doesn't make a damn bit of difference.
BTW- I haven't seen anything about the reduction in emissions in 2020- why is that? There's no possibility that the amount has remained the same when all travel has been reduced, most manufacturing and other major sources have been put on some level of hold. The one area that has to have increased is energy generation because people stayed at home and used their lighting, entertainment systems, computers and HVAC systems more.
First time to LA in 1966, all we saw was a big brown smudge in the lower altitudes and when we drove up to the Griffith Park Observatory, breathing sucked and my eyes burned badly. The sky is much more clear and it was much more pleasant. Here, we had the same kind of smudge over the freeways, but that has been reduced, too. Now, the only times I smell much of anything is if a fire occurs upwind or a large fire is burning in the Western US. When the 640K acre Show-Low/Chedesky fire was going, it was easily visible from PHX and almost anywhere I drove up to I-40 and from Flagstaff to the NM border. I got gas in Oklahoma and could still smell it. For that matter, I could smell it after I made it to MKE.
I don't understand why anyone would complain that we have cleaner water, ground and air than in the past. I saw a pair of Bald Eagles in this area a few weeks ago as I was coming home and that's the first time in my life- I'll be 64 in April. The water was too polluted, the fish had too many toxins and from what I have read, Milwaukee County hadn't had a nesting pair in about 100 years. The rivers are full of fish that couldn't have survived because the water didn't have enough dissolved Oxygen for Salmon & Trout, they have re-introduced Sturgeon & other species and I have seen some nice fish being taken at a waterfall close to my house where only Carp, Bullheads and other undesirable fish had been the main residents- I caught an 18" Muskie a couple of years ago and I had never heard that they were in this part of the Milwaukee River.
