Andel, Dr. Ir. Noor van

Boer, Yvo de (Vienna, Juin 12th 1954)

Former head of the United Nations climate change body, until 2010.

His house seems to be an example of environmentally conscious housing. This in contrast with the house of the environmentalists champion Al Gore (see below). The home of the Bushes, near Crawford, Texas, is described on the internet since ca. 2007 as follows:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.  The water (usually 67 degrees F) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer.  The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house.  Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.   

Former director of the department of climate change of the University of East Anglia (UK): under attck since Nnovember 2009 because of hacked emails, , known as te "climatgate-affair". He had to resign.

See an interview with the BBC.

Seee the climate-gate emails.