U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon called for global leaders to come together for a solution to global warming today, saying the human race could face oblivion. He then proceeded to to fly thousands of miles to the United States for a concert. He then jetted over to Europe.

Ban Ki-moon has been slammed for planning a round-the-world trip that will generate thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions just days after he leaves the UN meeting in Bali.

The South Korean has organised a post-conference trip, starting on Sunday, that will see him fly to attend the concert in New York, adding more than 4,300 miles to his itinerary. When he leaves the island after the summit Mr Ban will fly to East Timor, and then to Japan where he will briefly stop before catching another flight to the US.

The flight from Tokyo to New York takes him the wrong way around the world to arrive in time for the reception of a Korean concert-at Carnegie Hall, where he is the guest of honour. The concert is titled Around The World In Eighty Minutes.

The United Nations says it will offset the thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions by contributing an unspecified amount of money/resources to unspecified “environmentally friendly projects” at an unspecified time in the future.

As a wise man once said, I’ll start believing global warming is an emergency when the people telling me it’s an emergency, begin acting like it’s an emergency.