Whether any change in UK climate policy is linked to this manouevre remains to be seen.
In a surprise move, the woman appointed to run the crucial UN climate summit in Glasgow in November has been sacked, reports BBC News.
Claire Perry O’Neill, a former climate minister, had been assigned the post of “president” of the event, known as COP 26.
The British government has confirmed that the job will now be handled by the business department, BEIS.
In a tweet, Mrs O’Neill said she was “very sad” to lose the role, and went on to criticise the government.
It couldn’t “cope” with an independent unit managing preparations for the conference, she said.
And in a sharp dig at No 10’s green credentials, she also added: “A shame we haven’t had one climate cabinet meeting since we formed.”
In response, a Cabinet Office statement said the prime minister thanked Mrs O’Neill for her work so far.
“Preparations will continue at pace for the summit, and a replacement will be confirmed shortly. Going forward, this will be a ministerial role.”
This will come as a shock to many of the business and environmental groups working with her in the run-up to the summit.
It will also surprise diplomats and negotiators from other countries with whom Mrs O’Neill had formed bonds.
Full report here.
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An interesting development. Hopefully this will produce a bit of fresh air into the debates.
Claire Perry O’Neill sacked from role as president of UN Climate Change Conference
The former energy minister, was last night sacked from her role as president following “concerns about her leadership”
31 January 2020 • 8:03pm
‘Boris Johnson told the former Tory MP he was removing her from the post with immediate effect, though no official reason was given for her dismissal.
Whitehall sources suggested officials “couldn’t work with her” and that concerns about her performance had been a “long running issue”.’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/01/31/claire-perry-oneill-sacked-role-president-un-climate-change/
‘In a surprise move, the woman appointed to run the crucial UN climate summit in Glasgow in November has been sacked, reports BBC News.’
THIS climate summit is CRUCIAL. Yada yada yada.
“This one vill be different; you vill sehen.”
Boris should cancel the event as did Chile. I think Putin could be the one to sink it so move it to Moscow but make sure it is in December when there is lots of snow and temperatures below zero C.
More BBC propaganda.
Why will it be a “shock” to businesses? Most will not have dealt directly with her, and there are suggestions she was not doing a good job.
Just another attempt to rubbish the Tories, who have almost certainly sacked her for incompetence.
Pandering to alarmists again…
Johnson is expected to launch “a year of climate action” in a speech on Tuesday.
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/01/31/uk-government-drops-claire-oneill-president-cop26-summit/
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Heard on the BBC…
In 2014, Prime Minister David Cameron described Cummings as a “career psychopath”, although the two had never met.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Cummings
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Probably just as well 😄
Climate doomsayers keep putting sell-by dates on their credibility
January 30, 2020
I do wish we would take them a smidgen less seriously when they turn out to be wrong — as they always do
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On the face of it, we should be grateful that these gloomsters make such oddly precise predictions. It’s like putting a sell-by date on their credibility. After all, when the soothsayer in question is proved wrong, they just shuffle off with their tail between their legs, never to be heard from again, right? In eight years’ time, when the planet hasn’t disappeared in a cloud of toxic gas, presumably Greta will throw up her arms and say: ‘Sorry guys. Looked like I was wrong about you ruining my childhood. I’m now going to become a flight attendant.’
But, weirdly, that never happens. No matter how often these ‘experts’ are shown to be no better at forecasting than Paul the Octopus — worse, actually — they just carry on as if nothing has happened.
https://spectator.us/climate-doomsayers-keep-putting-sell-by-dates-credibility/
Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.
Just for fun I have started a countdow to COP26 by putting up 21+ years of Glasgow weather on https://www.weather-research.com/articles/countdown-to-unfcc-cop26-glasgow
Enjoy!
This might be considered a start but it won’t mean anything unless all the green cr@p is removed – things like the Climate Change Act (2008), the climate change committee, subsidies for ‘green’ energy and so on. Unfortunately that won’t happen because Boris follows his green girlfriend and the green globalist members of the not so civil service will stop anything sensible like a real energy policy for the country.
Lordy, if I was a minister I’d duck out of the way should Boris try and catch my eye for this one. But perhaps Boris wants someone he doesn’t like to participate in a foregone failure.
GWPF Welcomes Replacement Of COP26 President
Date: 01/02/20 Press Release, Global Warming Policy Forum
The former minister was strongly criticised last year for her meeting with members of Extinction Rebellion, an extremist environmental group, at a UN climate conference in Poland.
“COP26 is too risky to be chaired by a green activist-politician who is too close to campaigners who intend to turn the UN conference into an embarrassment for Boris Johnson,” GWPF director Benny Peiser said.
In light of a solidified deadlock in international climate negotiations since the Paris Agreement four years ago, there is a pretty good chance that COP26 will end without a breakthrough.
There is now a growing risk that green campaigners will try to turn COP26 into an international embarrassment for the UK.
https://www.thegwpf.com/gwpf-welcomes-replacement-of-cop26-president/
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Nobody wants to throw money away for no obvious purpose – surely a vote loser – especially with the US out of the picture.
Have ‘green campaigners’ not noticed that COP meetings are usually ‘an international embarrassment’ anyway? Chile didn’t even dare to play host last year and moved the whole show to Spain at the last minute.
Did Boris foresee that the EU could no longer veto his decision?
The Guardian sees it differently. They may well be right, when you look at who Boris is receiving advice from.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/31/former-energy-minister-removed-as-un-climate-talks-chair?
“Observers of the UN talks interpreted her removal as a sign that Johnson was taking COP26 more seriously. He will make his first public intervention on the issue next Tuesday, when he will launch the UK’s COP26 strategy, at an event with Sir David Attenborough, the climate expert Lord Stern, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, the UN’s climate chief, Patricia Espinosa, and a host of dignitaries.
Tom Burke, the co-founder of the environmental group E3G, said he thought that either William Hague or Michael Howard, both former Conservative party leaders, could be possible choices to replace [Perry] O’Neill.”
Burke is a classic revolving door NGO-government advisor, https://www.e3g.org/people/tom-burke
Click to access E3G-Annual_Review-web.pdf
E3G receives funding from the EU, from the UK, Canadian and German governments, WWF, RSPB, National Geographic, the UN and many foundations. They are embedded within the whole process.
dennisambler says:
February 1, 2020 at 11:32 pm
Lord Stern is no climate expert. He has no qualifications in technology. He is supposed to be an economist but his paper on climate some 9 years ago ago was torn to shreds by Lord Lawson and economic experts. He did not understand engineering costs and the use of discount factors or advances in engineering if there was found to be a need (such as building sea walls if the sea level should rise which it has not). Mark Carney has proved himself a fool and incompetent economist. Quantitative easing is plain dumb policy. He like many fool economists believe in demand stimulation but that can cause the opposite as with the great depression which was unnecessarily lengthened. Supply needs to be encouraged by putting in place the right conditions which of course includes profits. Take electric cars (next post) There is no EV which a) is cheap b) is safe c) has a long range >500km d) can be quickly recharged e) can be quickly removed if it runs out of power on a lonely country road or even on a motorway etc EVs may become viable when they carry their own power making equipment such as a fuel cell or a small nuclear reactor. It is supply that counts in economics. Supply creates its own demand such as with mobile phones and smart phones. People like Carney are too dumb and clouded by politics to see that.
cement – There is no EV which a) is cheap b) is safe c) has a long range >500km d) can be quickly recharged
Indeed, but there’s the fundamental problem for EVs – weight and cost of the batteries. Adequate range inevitably means heavy and expensive. That’s why the original EVs were replaced by fuel-powered vehicles over a century ago, and despite lithium the same issue is still there today.
Electric vehicles first appeared in the mid-19th century.
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The high cost, low top speed, and short range of battery electric vehicles, compared to later internal combustion engine vehicles, led to a worldwide decline in their use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle
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Back on topic – COP 26 will probably end with Attenborough waving an absurdly fat cheque from the UK government aimed at nobody and nothing in particular to ‘tackle climate change’, saying to all the other so-called rich countries “where’s yours?”
It’s getting ugly…
Climate War Against Boris: Sacked Climate Summit Chief May Sue UK Government
Date: 02/02/20 The Times
Claire Perry O’Neill, the former energy minister, is consulting lawyers after she was removed from her role running the UN climate change conference.
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Perry O’Neill has told friends that Boris Johnson and his most senior aides gave three different reasons for her dismissal from her role at the conference, known as COP26, which is due to take place in November in Glasgow. She is considering legal action if she does not receive a proper explanation.
https://www.thegwpf.com/climate-war-against-boris-sacked-climate-summit-chief-may-sue-uk-government/
GWPF: Allies said she became frustrated that the COP26 unit had failed to produce a proper plan for the summit and that the estimated costs had nearly doubled from £250m to £450m because of poor estimates by other departments.
£450m? Insane.
£450m? Insane.
oldbrew, you must consider the cost of parking all the private jets and the clean up necessary after any eco-loon event.
I wonder what the policing bill for it will be? – considering that every eco-loon available, will be there.
XR’s pratting about in London, last April., cost £37 million. Apparently the Met. spent nearly £14k on vegan meals, for the one’s they locked last year.
The local hoteliers are planning on making a killing, prices up by 500% during the jamboree.
My hope is that this small step towards reining in the increasingly irrational climate consensus and the BBC being willing to point out that skeptics were right about RCP 8.5 being a scam, are not mere coincidence.
cementafriend:
Stern has just returned from India where he and former Climate Change Committee Chairman Adair Turner have been speaking at the TERI (Pachauri’s old employer) Sustainable Development Conference. Mark Carney will soon be working for the UN.
Adair Turner is co-chair, with TERI’S Ajay Mathur of the Energy Transitions Commission. Members include Lord Greg Barker, Will Gardiner, the CEO of Drax, Laurence Tubiana, organiser of the Paris 2015 COP, Nigel Topping, who has just been appointed as the High Level Climate Action Champion for the COP26. Bringing up the rear in the ETC is former US Senator Tim Wirth, initiator of James Hansen’s 1988 address to Congress, which started the climate agenda.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/aturner
https://www.teriin.org/event/world-sustainable-development-summit-wsds-2020
http://www.energy-transitions.org/who-we-are
Boris was cunning in moving the COP show to Glasgow when the mandarins wanted London. If there’s any civil strife it will be on Sturgeon’s patch not his 😎
It is long past time to to decisively show how Lord Stern’s economics are even less credible than the thousands of climate reports and peer reviewed papers that rely on RCP 8.5.
The Real Reason Glasgow’s UN Climate Summit Will Be A Nightmare
Date: 06/02/20 Charles Moore, The Spectator
The Prime Minister is in a trap of his own making by sucking up to David Attenborough
https://www.thegwpf.com/the-real-reason-glasgows-un-climate-summit-will-be-a-nightmare/
No new COP President yet… tick-tock…