Fret not, my comrades. I’m sure they’ll purchase some carbon offsets from a company owned by Al Gore and all will be right in the world. As we know, buying a piece of paper mitigates the environmental damage caused by flying your private plane halfway across the world.

Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”

And how many of those vehicles are electric or hybrid? Er, five. Five out of twelve hundred.

Apparently driving our vehicles hundreds of miles is horrible when taking our families on road trips, but driving the same vehicles the same distance is okey dokey when it’s done in the name of saving the planet from carbon.

And to think some people question the motives of the do-gooders.

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

As well 15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists and 98 world leaders, the Danish capital will be blessed by the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Helena Christensen, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prince Charles. A Republican US senator, Jim Inhofe, is jetting in at the head of an anti-climate-change “Truth Squad.” The top hotels – all fully booked at £650 a night – are readying their Climate Convention menus of (no doubt sustainable) scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges.

Inhofe may be jetting over there, but he’s doing so while fully believing that the world doesn’t need to be saved from the stuff we exhale. At least he’s not a hypocrite.

The do-gooders pushing junk science, on the other hand, are. They’re taking their private jets to Copenhagen, jumping in their limousines, driving to their high-class hotels, sitting down to their seafood dinners, and then heading over to the convention to discuss strategies for saving the world from pollutants.

All of this adds up to an expected equivalent of 41,000 tons — tons — of carbon emissions. The average American emits just 20 tons of carbon in an entire year. And we’re supposedly some of the worst polluters in the world.

By now you’re asking yourself, “If these people really believe emitting carbon will destroy the planet, why aren’t they thinking twice about emitting 41,000 tons of carbon for one conference alone?” Good question.

Because most of them don’t really believe what they’re shoveling.

The envirowhacko movement is generally made up of scam artists (those who make money off the junk science); political activists (those seeking the implementation of environmental policies to achieve a separate political goal); anti-capitalists (sort of like the political activists, but these guys are openly anti-economic growth); and true believers (people who’ve been duped into believing what the other elements are selling).

People like Al Gore are a little bit of each element, with the possible exception of the last one. The average individual buying into the “green” movement is a true believer honestly seeking to make the world a better place. The scientists at the Climate Research Unit, who admitted that the earth isn’t warming but manipulated data anyway, are mostly seeking to keep the research grant gravy train chugging along — they’re closest to the “scam artist” category.

And so we have all of these elements coming together in Copenhagen, hoping no one will notice that their actions are in direct conflict with the propaganda they’re shoveling. Well, guess what? The world noticed. The mask slipped a bit more.