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Yvo de Boer's resignation compounds sense of gathering climate crisis
Guardian (UK) ^ | Thursday 18 February 2010 15.05 GMT | Mark Lynas

Posted on 02/22/2010 11:51:25 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Despite his steady hands at the helm of climate talks, de Boer was losing his touch and navigated into rancorous territory


UN climate chief Yvo de Boer at a news conference on the eve of the Copenhagen conference which ultimately ended in disappointment.
Photograph: Bob Strong/Reuters

How can everything have gone so wrong so quickly? A year ago, the prospects for successful climate change regulation were bright: a new US president promised positive re-engagement with the international community on the issue, civil society everywhere was enthusiastically mobilising to demand that world leaders "seal the deal" at Copenhagen, and the climate denial crowd had been reduced to an embarrassing rump lurking in the darker corners of the internet.

Now there seems to have been a complete reversal. Obama is held hostage by a deadlocked Senate, which will agree to neither domestic climate legislation nor US participation in a new legally binding treaty. Copenhagen was a disaster from start to finish, and even the face-saving Copenhagen accord is winning at best lukewarm support even from the countries that helped draw it up. To add to the sense of crisis, the climate denial lobby is suddenly resurgent, and the conspiracy theories that underlie the hacked climate emails controversy are in danger of becoming popular received wisdom.

These are dark times.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazongate; carbontrade; climatechange; climatechangedata; czechgate; glaciergate; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingscandal; globqalwarminghoax; ipcc; pachauri; pachaurigate; scandinaviagate
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And the resignation of Yvo de Boer as executive secretary of the UN climate change secretariat today only compounds the sense of gathering crisis.

1 posted on 02/22/2010 11:51:26 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“The jig is up”.


2 posted on 02/22/2010 11:52:27 AM PST by marron
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To: SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; Fred Nerks; steelyourfaith; NormsRevenge; onyx; BOBTHENAILER; ...

I don’t feel bad at all.....


3 posted on 02/22/2010 11:52:35 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: marron
Related thread:

Climate sceptics are recycled critics of controls on tobacco and acid rain ( Alarmists crying out)

4 posted on 02/22/2010 11:55:02 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Crisis? What crisis?


5 posted on 02/22/2010 11:55:56 AM PST by henkster (A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Awwwww, poor Marky L doesn’t get to make his fellow Brits more miserable with more climate regs, bless his little ol’ heart!


6 posted on 02/22/2010 12:00:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I am Ellie Light.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Checking to see if I feel sorry for the schmuck. Mmmmmm, nope.


7 posted on 02/22/2010 12:03:09 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: henkster
This crisis...FR Thread:

Climate scientists are losing ground against deniers' disinformation (Hussein tactics needed)

8 posted on 02/22/2010 12:08:29 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Army Air Corps

ROFL!


9 posted on 02/22/2010 12:09:12 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
These are dark times.

Dark times? If you've chosen a side and are a true believer. How about if you biased reporters resigned?

10 posted on 02/22/2010 12:14:15 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: All
From the thread linked just above:

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Wonderful!


Climate deniers such as those at the Tea Party in Nashville, Tennessee, have more influence on the debate than many countries represented at Copenhagen.

11 posted on 02/22/2010 12:14:25 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Climate carnage” is the perfect issue for self-important bed wetters.


12 posted on 02/22/2010 12:14:50 PM PST by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

cause for celebration


13 posted on 02/22/2010 12:19:06 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER ( EPA will rule your life)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“civil society everywhere was enthusiastically mobilising to demand that world leaders “seal the deal” at Copenhagen,”

So if one is to think global warming is bunk he would be called “uncivilized” by these buffoons?


14 posted on 02/22/2010 12:28:55 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: dennisw; Brett66; BOBTHENAILER; Army Air Corps; henkster; marron
The Obama regime plows ahead....FR Thread:

New Climate Agency Head Tried to Suppress Data, Critics Charge

15 posted on 02/22/2010 12:29:07 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Parley Baer

It appears that way...and it is that nasty teaparty crowd again...


16 posted on 02/22/2010 12:30:14 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

IMHO...if I was involved with Climate Fraud...the potential for a French Revolution type of scenario...by the angry peasants..would have me changing my name..and moving to Australia...


17 posted on 02/22/2010 12:31:54 PM PST by mo
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; IrishCatholic; Carlucci; Desdemona; meyer; Para-Ord.45; Normandy; mmanager; ...
Thanx !

 


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18 posted on 02/22/2010 12:51:54 PM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: mo; Fred Nerks

That may not be a safe place either...they were mucking with the data from there...and some peasants are upset ...


19 posted on 02/22/2010 12:52:07 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Oh, how the truth and reality hurt!!


20 posted on 02/22/2010 1:08:35 PM PST by aquila48
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