Odd quote from Yvo de Boer

Excerpt from this story:

"I'm very concerned about the pace of things," said Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat. "We are in an all-or-nothing situation in that if we don't manage to get the work done on the future (terms for negotiations) then the whole house of cards basically falls to pieces."

He said that any collapse, involving a postponement of a launch of talks to a next meeting in late 2008 in Poland, could undermine momentum this year stoked by worries about warming.

I think the situation in Bali is indeed a political house of cards, which is in turn built upon a scientific house of cards, which is built upon a base of crappy temperature data taken near busy intersections, grills, hot building walls, hot asphalt, etc.