With Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the IPCC
The story behind this starts with my lost luggage. I hadn't heard anything from the airline, and the clerk I talked to at the hotel said my bag hadn't been delivered. The airline customer service desk was closed, so not wanting to spend a third day in the same clothes, I decided to forgo the Welcome Reception that the City of Copenhagen was having for COP15 participants, and went to the airport in the hopes of talking to someone there. It turns out my bag HAD been delivered - there must have been some miscommunication between clerks at the hotel. (For some reason this ALWAYS happens to me when I go to Europe, and only when I go to Europe. I think there is some sort of creature in the Atlantic Ocean that likes to pluck my bags out of the airplane and hide them from me.)
I decided to try and make it back for the reception, but I got to the door just as they were closing. But as I was about to turn around, Dr. Pachauri walked out. I asked him for a photo, and here is the result. I chatted with him briefly and thanked him for his work and for his comments earlier in the day about the emails. He's a very friendly man, but definitely very upset by the email situation, and is determined to find out who is behind the hacking.
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