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Breaking: Connie Hedegaard resigns as president of COP15 with immediate effect
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UPDATE: Connie Hedegaard spoke briefly with the correspondents of LinkTV at the Copenhagen Climate Conference and stated that her resignation should not been interpreted as a “shocking” event, rather as her opportunity to work in the dark rooms for the last 2 days of the conference and work on the finalization of it.
Less than half an hour ago, during the COP15 UN Climate Conference, the resignation of Connie Hedegaard as president of COP15 was announced with immediate effect. The Prime Minister of Denmark will most probably replace the president of the UN Climate Conference. Connie Hedegaard will remain “on board” as a special advisor.
In October 2009, Connie Hedegaard already threatened to resign after being left out of an important climate meeting.
To follow these events live you can tune in to Link TV for the live coverage where the resignation of the president was just announced. We will of course update you as soon as we know more.
By Priscilla Lorenzo
Tags: climate change, connie hedegaard, cop15, copenhagen, copenhagen conference
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Lots of innuendo and hyperbole in these comments. Are “skeptics” now to be defined as people who base their scientific opinions on politics? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Sorry, I don’t see skepticism, but certainty based on right wing politics. If you are skeptical about the science, at least give the political arguments instead of a paragraph of headlines even The Sun would balk at.
Very “respectful” to call environmentalists rats as well. Doesn’t help the comparisons between so-called “skeptics” and “deniers” either.
I have known always that the rats abandon a ship before the captain, but now I have learned that the biggest rat abandoned the ship before the mice. I knew this was going to happen. Rattie Hedeggard looked like completely lost for the past days. It seemed that she did not want more cheese but to get out of the mousetrap organized by the many asslickers of the number one hoaxer in the world, Pinocchios Al M(G)ore Lies. Poor Rattie. She deserved a better luck, but it is her own fault: She bought the wrong ticket at the wrong place for the worst cause. The boat is about to sink worse than the Titanic, but without Leonardo Di Caprio saving Rattie. No wonder Hamlet said that “something is rotten in Denmark“, but he should have said “something has always been rotten in Denmark and Sweden”, countries which unconditionally supports all the lies of Al Gore. And the protesters? Well, well, well. They have given COP15 Conference the biggest Xmas present they could have ever received. Sorry: they gave us, the skeptics, a huge Xmas present by showing how stupid and disrespectful environmentalists are in order to convey their stupid messages about climate changes. I was in Copenhaguen four days ago and believe me: the majority do not have the faintest idea about climatology. They believe it is a new Swedish-Danish delicacy. José Luis Belmar, one CO2 lover and one of the millions of COP15 skeptics. -JOSE LUIS BELMAR – SWEDEN
Bye bye, another nail in the coffin of climate hysteria. Let common sense reign!