All of you giving Kitty a hard time for participating in a mega-jet plane carbon-emitting conference just don't understand that the rules that the enviroforces want to place on all the rest of us can't be applied to the Leaders!  We are the Laity; they are the Saints of the  Environment.  

The numerous stories about former VP Gore's huge power-sucking mansion as well as his multiple jet plane rides around the world illustrate that!  

He got a Nobel for his efforts (which he flew in a fuel-guzzling jet plane to get.)  Right after he published the Inconvenient Truth, in 2007,  Associated Press reported that its own review of bills indicated that the Gores' Nashville household used more than 12 times the average for a typical household in that area,

We are expected to bow and genuflect in the hope that we might but touch the hem of her robe as she walks among us!