We all hate to see a "hard man" break down, don't we? Maybe someone oughta get this guy some Viagra. Or, perhaps, a pink tutu:
He is known as the "hard man" of climate-change negotiation.
But after 12 exhausting days of trying to reach a worldwide agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it was suddenly all too much for Yvo de Boer.
As the 200-nation Bali conference wrangled over a minor procedural matter, the Dutch diplomat in charge of the talks burst into tears and had to be led away by colleagues.
Moments earlier, Mr de Boer had been warning delegates that failure to reach an agreement on global warming could "plunge the world into conflict".
Officials from China, which feels Western countries should do more to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, accused UN negotiators of ignoring conference protocol.
Mr de Boer, distinctively dressed in a floral shirt, stepped up to the microphone to defend his staff - only to find that the words would no longer come.
As his unfinished sentences trailed away, he broke down and walked off the platform to supportive applause.
"He wasn't just wiping his eyes, he was in floods of tears," said one observer.
"Three colleagues - one of them a woman - formed a protective group around him and escorted him out of the hall. It was all very dramatic."
Mr de Boer's breakdown came after nearly a fortnight of squabbling ...
Maybe the floral shirt should have been a hint.
Anyway, just to be a bit fair and actually put forth something resembling an intellectual argument here, the reason this guy is such a pink tutu wearing queerboy is because the man-made global warming myth he so fanatically clings to has not been proven to be true. The jury is still out on it. Many scientists say that multiple factors could be at play, including the sun, and normal fluctuations in temperature.
When I was in college back in the 80's, I remember my professors telling me the earth was going to hell in a handbasket. There was an ice-coming, the sun was zooming in, there was a nuclear error, etc. etc.
One of the funniest things they told me was that we were sure to run out of oil by the early nineties.
Experts are expert at being stupid.
Get back to me on this Global Warming bullshit in another ten years, ok? And meanwhile, the "hard man" wins Infidel Bloggers Alliance Pussy of the Week.
What were they smoking at your school? I never got the "sun zooming in" theory.
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You're right. There was never a "sun zooming in" theory. Those were lyrics from a song by the Clash which perpetuated all the apocalyptic bullshit that was flying around in the 80's.
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