Bonn climate [scam] talks diary | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Someone was so angry at Saudi Arabia's continual "wrecking" tactics – which have blocked several moves by developing countries to reassess the science of climate change and increase the commitments of rich countries to cut emissions – that he or she took the plastic nameplate that sits in front of delegates in the plenary hall, and broke it. They then dunked it in the men's, and then in the women's lavatories, taking photographs and writing graffiti on the pictures. This deep insult has led the Saudi ambassador to complain. But the UN is not planning an investigation.
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And some conference culinary advice [from de Boer]: "How to cook a delegate: If a meeting lasts six days, you need to boil him for five days and he will be ready on the sixth. If the meeting lasts two weeks, cook the delegate for 13 days at a slightly lower temperature i.e, people use the negotiating time available!"
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Climate meetings often wash up strange coves who know more than anyone else about something. Today it was the turn of Steve Sawyer, the world's only "walking wind power lexicon". He used to be the chief executive of Greenpeace US and international but is now the very grand secretary-general of the Global Wind Energy Council. Sawyer was not here to counter assertions made this week by Viscount Monckton that wind power will do nothing to lower global temperatures: "A crazy peer from the UK is not really my debating partner," is all that he would say on that matter.
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