From the New York Times
WASHINGTON — Yvo de Boer, the stolid Dutch bureaucrat who led the international climate change negotiations over four tumultuous years, is resigning his post as of July 1, the United Nations said on Thursday.
In a statement announcing his departure, Mr. de Boer expressed disappointment that the December climate change conference of nearly 200 nations in Copenhagen had failed to produce an enforceable agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that climate scientists say are contributing to the warming of the planet.
He also said that governmental negotiations could provide a framework for action on climate, but that the solutions must come from the businesses that produce and consume the fuels that add to global warming.
“Copenhagen did not provide us with a clear agreement in legal terms, but the political commitment and sense of direction toward a low-emissions world are overwhelming,” said Mr. de Boer, whose formal title is executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. “This calls for new partnerships with the business sector, and I now have the chance to help make this happen.”
Mr. de Boer, 55, will join the consulting group KPMG as global adviser on climate and sustainability and will also work in academia, his office said.
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Oh man! He thought he was going to be King of the World.
Government by academia will never work.
Brings to mind something about rats and ships. This is likely the first to see the light.
When I first read this I thought it was Pachauri who was going and was glad. This, however, is not who I thought. I can’t even remind myself hearing his name before.
Is this of interest? It is called Czechgate by the one who wrote it:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/203117-Czechgate-Climate-scientists-dump-world-s-second-oldest-cold-climate-record
One down, but way too many ready to take his place. But a small victory perhaps. Is Patchy next?
The wall is tumbling down, and the clouds are clearing.
“enforceable agreement”
Leaves a cold pit in my stomach. He’s disappointed that Copenhagen failed to create a supra-national body with enforceable agreements led by bureaucrats… frankly I think we dodged a bullet.
I would love to see your counter arguments to these:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
And why not a counter i-phone app?
The funny thing is that a low(er)-emissions world is a laudable goal on its own merit. Had they concentrated on doing that in practical, efficient, and economical ways, instead of trying to use AGW hyperbole to scare us to death, so they could carbon tax us to death, they would be much farther ahead today.
“…Mr. de Boer, 55, will join the consulting group KPMG as global adviser on climate and sustainability…”
Nothing like a good revolving door arrangement.
Bye bye, the fool told us on Dutch television we have to pay a lot more taxes on the strawberry’s and meat because of the climate chance.
Just fleeing out from the sinking ship…
bet there will no replacement
And another one goes, and another one goes.
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Algore to be named his replacement?
Cant be just me that sees DeBoer as a somewhat sleazy, backroom in the shadows stringpuller whos too afraid of getting messy to do his own dirty work?
Just the image i get whenever i see him or hear of him….probably a very very very very nice man………
Beware this could still turn into a pyrrhic victory.
This Beast, that is the UN Climate committee, is not single headed, but is a pernicious, nefarious, conniving, mendacious, megalomaniac hydra!
This is barely the beginning, evil (and that is what this whole climate religion is) is not so easily defeated.
This Dark Science will not stop until all its evil doers are exposed.
There is a long, long way to go. One hydra head gone, many thousands to go!
Dear Mario:
I scanned all 90 rebuttals of your reference. Those many I read were ALL counter to the science published in this site and others.
Frederick Davies (07:09:40) :
“…Mr. de Boer, 55, will join the consulting group KPMG as global adviser on climate and sustainability…”
Nothing like a good revolving door arrangement.
Only benefits of KPMG partnership ….
Okay, one down but the chief rat is still in the silo and stuffing as much grain into his mouth as he can…
Mario, it is a distraction, nothing unusual is happening, seas have always risen and fallen, ice has come and gone, glaciers have advanced and receded, that things are changing is not in itself interesting. The core to all this, is can anyone define a relationship between CO2 and temperature that can give us warming to the extent the alarmists say. Answer no. Has CO2 demonstrated any relationship with global temperatures in the past.; Answer yes, the CO2 in the atmosphere has risen around 800 years after a temperature rise.
Until the alarmists can get a predictable, measurable and observable relationship between CO2 there is no science, it’s soothsaying.
Back OT, it may be a confluence of events that’s given rise to de Boer’s decision to go. For sure there was an annex giving bureaucrats the rights to tell sovereign countries how their markets could operate and enforcing the agreement that was pulled. This wouldn’t have been a disaster, but for climategate, which wouldn’t have been a disaster except for glaciergate, and with other “gates” following one on the heels of another, and the fact that the next IPCC report will undoubtedley be more circumspect and less dramatic than the last, he’s probably figured out the game is up and took the door to another career.
Oh noes. Just when we need his valiant endeavers the most only moments before the TIPPING point.
We will see a lot of hand wringing and anxiety.
It is slowly getting good for the popcorn industry.
Mario:
When you can understand the work of Elsasser…
When you can write out the classic layered atmopshere radation exchange equations.
When you can explain WHY Elsassers work, showing CO2 to be an equal upflux and downflux agent to 30,000 feet, and Plass’s work showing the COOLING contribution of CO2 in the stratosphere, then I’ll listen to your TROLL work.
Don’t underestimate this. Yves De Boer is a bigger fish than Pachauri, much bigger. I feel like singing this.
Pachauri is contemplating his future with this music playing in the background
Looks to me like he’s off to make some money from “Climate Change” before the game’s up
Sell any green energy stocks-now….