The Climate Pool: Boos & Queues: A seven-hour saga getting into the conference | Facebook — Come on. This is hilarious, no?

Seth’s toes are finally warm. In his security photo he is grinning like a child — and with reason. He’s finally in.

“You have no idea how important water and a bathroom is until you don’t have it,” he said after waiting 7 hours and 20 minutes to enter the Copenhagen climate talks.

With U.N. security letting in only those cleared last week, hundreds of accredited delegates, journalists and NGO representatives were left to stand for hours in near-freezing temperatures before being let through. “It was crazy,” AP’s Seth Borenstein said. “You couldn’t leave the line. You couldn’t go to the bathroom, you couldn’t eat. Then snowflakes started falling. One woman even said, ‘if lightning strikes me, would they take me out of line?'”

People started handing out food — one gave out tangerines, another croissants. A man screamed “I don’t need food. I need socks! I’m freezing my ass off out here.” At one point, a U.N. official announced the wait would be longer, prompting the crowd to boo and chant “Let Us In!”




  1. Godfish says:

    You can tell there not Americans, I don’t see any fat people?

  2. aslightlycrankygeek says:

    #28 jbellies

    I am not saying you are wrong, but I am very curious at this point about the discrepancy in google search results. I just search for ‘record cold’ and got:

    “Results 1 – 10 of about 107,000,000 for record cold. (0.29 seconds)”

    It is curious that this is a few million less than Ah_Yeah but still way more that what you are finding.

  3. jbellies says:

    #15 #28 #34. Note the difference that using quotation marks makes! It searches for the exact phrase, rather than all of the words anywhere in the page. google 101. #15 implied that he used quotation marks. If he carelessly didn’t, that would explain his anomalous results.


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