WANTS TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH HIS MONEY – AT 7:59 A.M. ET:  From Canada's National Post:

Yvo de Boer, head of the UN's climate change convention, will resign as of July 1, his office announced on Thursday.

Mr. de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, will join the consultancy group KPMG as global advisor on climate and sustainability and work with a number of universities, the UNFCCC secretariat said.

I love it, I love it.  They always wind up cashing out.

The announcement came nearly two months after the Copenhagen summit on climate change, seen even by its supporters as a disappointment and by its critics as a chaotic failure.

The UNFCCC, an offshoot of the 1992 Rio summit, gathers 194 nations in the search for combating the causes of man-made climate change and easing its effects.

COMMENT:  Well, he's the first major member of the "it's too darned hot" international bureaucracy to run for the exits, where a pot of gold awaits.  Expect more.  If the media starts doing the job, we can expect some real truths to come out about the intersection of "global warming" and money, with some  universities playing a less than noble role.

February 18,  2010