Posted on 07/30/2008 7:37:59 AM PDT by Coffee200am
The U.N. headquarters in New York will be warming up as part of an initiative to battle climate change, U.N. officials say.
Under a directive from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, air conditioning in the 50-year-old, glass-walled Secretariat will be dialed down in a nod toward environmentalism, and in return, suit-and-tie requirements will be jettisoned in favor of national dress, The Washington Times reported Wednesday.
The landmark, 39-story building on New York's East River is notorious for its draftiness and Ban, who calls himself the environmental secretary-general, has instituted an in-house climate change initiative to save energy costs. Called Cool U.N., the initiative will result in the building becoming 5 degrees warmer and the air conditioning being turned off on weekends.
The secretary-general is doing everything he can to mobilize unprecedented international action on climate change, Robert Orr, an adviser to Ban, told the Times. Successful negotiations are necessary, but individual and institutional behavior must also change all over the world if we are to address the climate crisis, and the secretary-general felt that this was one way the U.N. could lead by example.
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5 degrees warmer than WHAT?
National Dress = Speedos!
Sever its moorings and it will float away.
It'll cost more in power just to get the temp back down before Monday. Wonderful news for the night watchman...
The rotten smell is goin’ to get even worse!
Everyone will be showing up with a Pakistani cotton, long sleeved shirt...with the sleeves rolled up....JUST LIKE OBAMA.
Send the UN offices in NYC to Harare, Zimbabwe - for the children.
Beat me to it. That building is basically a huge greenhouse. If they completely turn off the ac, it will get so hot that it will take days just to cool it back down with the ac running at full tilt. But, it will make them feel better, so that's all that matters...
Shouldn’t be much of an issue. Voting to condemn Israel and the U.S. for genocide and other human rights violations only takes a few minutes. After that the diplomats can get into their limos and head out to their cocktail parties, appointments with hookers, etc (in other words, the usual diversions after solving the worlds problems).
I was going to say! This is only going to compound the B.O. problem there.
Might as well turn out the lights too. Everyone there is already in the dark anyway.
Prevailing in the fight against an imaginary foe can be quite difficult.
Why do they have any A/C or heat at all?
Well then he is aptly named.
That's the bottom half.
You can almost smell it from here...
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