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.
Complete story in the New York Times
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I like Lubos Motls response on the subject:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/02/yvo-de-boer-leaves-un-agw-bandwagon.html
One down…..and many more to go!
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Interesting article in Netherlands newspaper.He was right to worry.
http://www.climategate.com/wp-content/uploads/UKVersieHenkTennekes.pdf
ARNHEM – “I worry a lot these
days. I worry about the arrogance
of scientists who blithely claim that
they are here to solve the climate
problem, as long as they receive
massive increases in funding. I
worry about the way they covet
new supercomputers. Others talk
about
”stabilizing the climate“. I’m
terrified of the arrogance, vanity
and recklessness of those words.
Why is it so difficult to demonstrate
a little humility?“
Is this a response to recent
climate scandals? Sober criticism
of the failed IPCC UN climate
panel that exaggerated the melting
of the glaciers? No, these areextracts from a column which
appeared exactly twenty(!) years
ago in a British scientific journal.
When the then Director of Policy
Development at the KNMI
(Holland’s Met Office,) Henk
Tennekes put the cat among the
pigeons. Watch out for all the
unsubstantiated claims about
climate!
End
You worry about future science and dark ages Leif?
Maybe scientists cannot exercise humility because some believe they answer to nobody,the sad fact is,they are right.
UK readers may wish to watch tonight’s Newsnight Scotland discussion on the continued fallout from Copenhagen and climategate with Professor David Henderson (Global Warming Policy Institute) and Rob Edwards (Sunday Herald Environment Editor):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qzkrf/Newsnight_Scotland_18_02_2010/
Good natured discussion, although the interviewer’s (Gordon Brewer) assertion that the dodgy emails / FOI transgressions do not detract from the “fundamental science behind global warming” shows the BBC have still got their heads in the sand on the key issue.
Good riddance!
Mario Nelson, your link says “In the last 35 years of global warming, the sun has shown a slight cooling trend. Sun and climate have been going in opposite directions.”
*ahem* The sun is a variable G2V “yellow” star, and the long-term cooling trends of this category star is measured in millions of years (evolving into a dwarf star someday, humankind will be long gone).
As the sun’s heliosphere waxes and wanes, the earth receives various levels of cosmic radiation, which will form droplet nuclei in the atmosphere, eventually producing clouds that increase the albedo of the planet. CERN is studying this in their “Cloud” experiment as I type.
Please see this presentation, “Evidence for pre-industrial solar-climate variability,” delivered by Dr. Kirkby to a colloquium at CERN:
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1181073/
Nice clip of an interview with Pat Michaels of the Cato Institue about the resignation.
He poses the question “Who runs out on a winning hand ?”
Global Warming is a bit like Michael Myers – even when there seems no chance of it surviving, it’ll keep coming back. There are too many vested interests who’ve bought into it, and planning to cash in on it.
Hey everybody, don’t use the analogy of “rats jumping ship” when talking about Yvo de Boer and other CACGW supporters leaving.
It is demeaning to those rodents. I had rats as pets when a kid. They are noble creatures. Rats are highly social and intelligent creatures.
The politicos, scientists, MSMs and advocates involved in CACGW are not the most noble representatives of the human race.
John
Good bye and good riddance to Yvo de Boer. He was a nuisance to the rest of the world, and an enabler of all sorts of terrible nonsense. He should have been fired a long time ago, but for the madness of the world, especially those who had an agenda of global government on their minds. Nor should he be replaced.
[he] will join the consulting group KPMG as global adviser on climate and sustainability
If he is a rat leaving a sinking ship, he has jumped to the wrong ship.