On one hand while they say “Failure is not an option in Copenhagen” it appears that some things aren’t going so well internally. Perhaps a bit too much wining and dining?
As WUWT commenter “par5” points out: “Becker has left office with immediate effect after not presenting sufficient documentation for expensive restaurant bills, according to reports in the Danish media. One bill for 39 people allegedly included 37 bottles of red wine, and Becker was given a formal warning in March over travel expenses.”
http://www.rechargenews.com/business_area/politics/article195681.ece
From the COP15 website:
Denmark’s chief climate negotiator resigns
Thomas Becker, right hand of incoming COP15 president Connie Hedegaard, has been relieved of duty with immediate notice.
With less than two months to go to the UN climate conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark’s chief climate negotiator Thomas Becker has resigned from his position as deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry for Climate and Energy.
According to Danish news agency Ritzau, Becker confirms his resignation but declines to comment or give any reason for his resignation.
“Of course it’s sad that a key person in the climate negotiations has chosen to resign his position. However, it is a purely administrative matter which I therefore do not have any comments to,” says Connie Hedegaard, Minister for Climate and Energy and incoming COP15 president, according to Danish public service broadcasting network DR.
DR on Friday quoted the ministry’s Permanent Secretary Thomas Egebo as saying that “Thomas Becker has been relieved from duty with immediate notice after disagreements of a non-professional nature, matters that the ministry and Becker look differently upon”.
Becker has been instrumental in Hedegaard’s international climate diplomacy, and according to Ritzau he conceived the idea of bringing COP15 to Denmark. From 2004-2006 he was chairman of the Subsidiary Body of Implementation under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
As of Monday, Becker will be replaced by Steffen Smidt, deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Smidt is an experienced diplomat and has participated in international climate negotiations for a number of years.
h/t to WUWT reader John Ratcliffe
Ron de Haan (07:26:36): I called the GOP HQ number and Senator Graham’s SC office number and voiced by protest to the CAP N Tax Bill.
Smokey (07:48:59): It won’t do any good to call my Senators–I live in California.
OT John F. Pittman (07:27:57) : Hey is that a sunspot in the lower left quadrant of the magneto veiw from NASA?
“The new region on the eastern limb has rotated into view and is a spotless plage. It does belong to Cycle 24 because of the latitude and magnetic signature” (www.solarcycle24.com)
Reed Coray (10:16:03) : “It won’t do any good to call my Senators–I live in California.”
This will work for sure:
Carbon Dioxide Therapy (Carboxy Therapy) Proven to Rejuvenate Aging Skin
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1485258/carbon_dioxide_therapy_carboxy_therapy_pg2.html
tokyoboy (22:20:36) :
….One bill for 39 people allegedly included 37 bottles of red wine,….
The Danish drink so little?
Presumably two people (or more!) were teetotal!
Tokyoboy : ….One bill for 39 people allegedly included 37 bottles of red wine,….
The Danish drink so little?
That was only the wine.
RE: Smokey (10:07:49) :
What, you don’t believe our speaker of the House? She would never lie to us… would she? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaDtkG6afBc&feature=related
AMAZING
How does she get re-elected?
She must be surgically enhanced to maintain a straight face while saying that …
Reed Coray (10:16:03) :
Agreed: the 2 Senators from California are NOT listening to thier constituents.
You could send in 3.9 x 10E6 phone calls, and it still would not make any difference. Except to the phone company, which would have a field day with the charges.
dfbaskwill (06:36:19) :
According to the Danish article, a restaurant bill in BANGKOK could not be produced. Methinks there is more to the story than bar tabs and man-made global warming!
Nonsense! That was obviously a completely justified dinner meeting to discuss several new peer reviewed studies which revealed the potential catastrophic effects of Climate Change on the worldwide sex worked industry.
I am in the process of preparing a grant proposal for new study to quantify the devastating economic consequences of a public rejection of climate change alarmism. The list of industries which would be negatively affected by such an occurrence is quite large.
Corporations which build and or lease private jets.
Purveyors of caviar, truffles, lobsters, Wagyu steaks, virtually any foodstuff that retails for over a $100/lb.
Restaurants with more than 3 Michelin stars.
Resorts which host conferences in exotic locales like Bali.
Companies which build and or lease limousines.
Printers who produce gilt edged carbon offset certificates.
The layoffs and bankruptcies could plunge the recovering world economy back into recession or even depression.
According to Marc Moreno MSM losing Their Religion.
I think we need more substantial evidence of that.
What about an official statement that they have been wrong about Global Warming CO2 is not the culprit and an excuse for all the scary stories?
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/3310/Losing-Their-Religion-2009-officially-declared-year-the-media-lost-their-faith-in-manmade-global-warming-fears
“One bill for 39 people allegedly included 37 bottles of red wine…”
And on that note, I propose a drinking song for the merry conference-goers in December:
“Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
Friendly old girl of a town
‘Neath her tavern light
On this freezing night
Fellow warmists, our sorrows let’s drown!”
corrigendum: not worked, but worker
Ron de Haan,
“Copenhagen is all about a Marxist Coup of the Free World and most of the people don’t understand what’s going on.”
Just as it is obvious he didn’t resign over 37 bottles of wine you ought to get real and stop spouting such rubbish.
I am a climate change skeptic, but i find remarks like that way OTT.
RE:
P Gosselin (01:31:32) :
Yes, Dear Leader Obama, Prince of Peace, will take us there.
Just heard that Obama has quietly(?) sent or is sending more troops to Afghanistan. This coming just a few days after his Peace Award.
I was reminded of a former great leader, James T Kirk:
“We come in peace, shoot to kill”.
Adolfo Giurfa (10:59:11) .
This will work for sure:
Carbon Dioxide Therapy (Carboxy Therapy) Proven to Rejuvenate Aging Skin
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1485258/carbon_dioxide_therapy_carboxy_therapy_pg2.html
The last thing on my to-do list is to rejuvenate either Dianne Feinstein or Barbara (Dumber than a Box-of-Rocks) Boxer.
37 bottles of wine on the wall
37 bottles of wine
If one of those bottles should happen to fall…
36 bottles of wine on the wall.
(With apologies to whoever made up the 99 bottles of beer song.)
Well anyway I guess after 37 bottles of wine, AGW theory can seem reasonable. 🙂
David S (15:27:32) :
Well anyway I guess after 37 bottles of wine, AGW theory can seem reasonable. 🙂
“This is a good vintage, that co2 does wonders for foliage growth.”
“Certainly does, another?”
“Actually, I’m feeling a bit hot, I need a cooler, pass the Gin and Tonic will you?”
“certainly… oops, I dropped it”
“No worries, plenty more where that came from. Good old taxpayers will cover it.”
“If Crazy Kerry and a bunch of GOP Traitors like Lindsey Graham collect their 60 votes before December the game is over.”
Not really, the last ditch will be the Senate vote to pass the treaty, which will require 67 votes that they won’t get.
Hearings on Senate Climate Bill start October 27th.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=4fd9e448-802a-23ad-4e6f-661f14cec15d
Roger Knights (17:13:10) :
“If Crazy Kerry and a bunch of GOP Traitors like Lindsey Graham collect their 60 votes before December the game is over.”
Not really, the last ditch will be the Senate vote to pass the treaty, which will require 67 votes that they won’t get.
Roger,
I really hope your are right.
It would leave Obama empty handed at the Copenhagen Meeting where no binding commitment will be possible.
It will take years of legal battles before EPA regulation via the Clean Air and Clean Water Act could be a reality.
Until that time the AGW/Climate Change Hoax will be dead.
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2009/10/robert-reich-empty-hands-on-climate-and.html
Gisstemp winter warming bogus:
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/gistemp-quartiles-of-age-bolus-of-heat/
No matter what’s decided in Copenhagen, taxing in the name of Climate Change will be the new cash cow for many Governments.
Here is an example:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219682/Pay-drive-plan-meet-green-targets.html
The 37 bottles were Melchizedeks – containing 30 litres. At least they can shove their heads into the Danish December snow to tackle their hangovers.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Global Warming? The “Deniers” are my Heroes
By Alan Caruba
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2009/10/deniers-are-my-heroes.html
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