de Boer Resigns from UNFCCC
18 February 2010
Yvo de Boer will resign his position as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as of 1 July 2010. de Boer will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as Global Adviser on Climate and Sustainability, as well as working with a number of universities.
Working with my colleagues at the UNFCCC Secretariat in support of the climate change negotiations has been a tremendous experience. It was a difficult decision to make, but I believe the time is ripe for me to take on a new challenge, working on climate and sustainability with the private sector and academia. I have always maintained that while governments provide the necessary policy framework, the real solutions must come from business.
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. This calls for new partnerships with the business sector and I now have the chance to help make this happen.
—Yvo de Boer
de Boer will remain in his current position until 1 July and help negotiations move forward ahead of the Climate Change Conference in Mexico in November this year.
de Boer was appointed Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC in September 2006. Before that he was extensively involved in European Union environmental policy as deputy Director General of the Dutch Environment Ministry. de Boer has also served as Vice-chair of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, acted as an advisor to the Government of China and the World Bank and worked closely with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development.
With 194 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
One reason UN execs and alarmists are jumping AGW ship is the realization that with uber-high priest Phil Jones having admitted there has been no statistical warming for 100 years... the charade is up. Mr. de Boer is joining Wall Street firm KPMG... hmmm.
Did we hear about Jones' stunning confession in the States? No. Why? It was carried by one of the world's largest, most venerable networks - BBC.
Seems the "mainstream media" refuses to do their job - report the news.
* No mention by the New York Times
* No mention by the Washington Post
* No mention by USA Today
* No mention by ANY major U.S. newspaper EXCEPT the Washington Times
* No mention by the Associated Press
* No mention by Reuters
* No mention by UPI
* No mention by ABC News
* No mention by CBS News
* No mention by NBC News
* No mention by MSNBC
Proving the media seems less interested in real science and its "experts" and more in perpetuating a debunked AGW theory.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/16/climategater-jones-stunning-global-warming-revelations-ignored#ixzz0fuPB864M
Posted by: sulleny | 18 February 2010 at 09:30 AM
Sorry sulleny but have you actually read the Q&A with Phil Jones or did you read an abbreviated version which distorted what he said (e.g. Daily Mail)?
He said that the period 1995-2009 is too short to be statistically significant. That's all. Nothing about no warming since 1995 or no warming in the last 100 years (where did you take that from?). Gosh.
Posted by: randomdude | 18 February 2010 at 02:19 PM
Yes I read it. The warming rate in 1860-1880 (when there were no cars, and nascent industry) is no different than 1975-2009. doh
"So, in answer to the question, the warming rates for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other." Jones
Here are the trends and significances for each period:
Period Length Trend
(Degrees C per decade) Significance
1860-1880 21 0.163 Yes
1910-1940 31 0.15 Yes
1975-1998 24 0.166 Yes
1975-2009 35 0.161 Yes
BBC News
Posted by: sulleny | 18 February 2010 at 11:03 PM
Here are the trends and significances for each period:
Period Length Trend Significance
1860-1880 21 0.163 Yes
1910-1940 31 0.15 Yes
1975-1998 24 0.166 Yes
1975-2009 35 0.161 Yes
(Degrees C per decade)
Posted by: sulleny | 18 February 2010 at 11:07 PM
Sulleny:
One would not need to have an opinion on anthropogenic climate change to see that you really cherry-picked this one. All one would have to do is click on your link, then click through several times to get to the original BBC interview:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm
Jones makes it quite clear that he feels that much of the warming since the 1950s can be attributed to manmade sources, and he lays out his logic for all to see.
When you crow about inaccuracy and claim that science is riddled with conspiracy, yet fail to include even the most basic assertions found in the original interview, you make it clear that you are part of the problem and not the solution.
Did you even read the source material?
Are you compensated in any way for your posts?
Do you post under multiple names?
Posted by: Kelly | 20 February 2010 at 08:44 AM
In Through the Looking Glass, Alice was to believe eight impossible things before breakfast: I have not made up yet the list of impossible things that radical environmentalists should believe before breakfast, but one true thing that can be believed before breakfast is that nuclear power plants can be built in less than five years and that they produce almost no CO2 or CH4 in operation, and there is enough Uranium and Thorium to power them for a few millions of years until a method for fusion is discovered if necessary. A few billions of years ago the earth had almost no oxygen and mostly CO2 and CH4 in the air, but then Photosynthetic plants took over the earth, and filled the air with deadly Oxygen. Humans have even been known to cultivate large areas of these poison producing plants thus continuing to endanger the surviving anaerobic organisms and causing the extinction of many species. ..HG..
Posted by: Henry Gibson | 22 February 2010 at 11:43 PM