The idea of ghosts never made sense to me. Like ooooo I'm flickering this light and making creaky sounds in your house. ooooooo, be afraid! Then what? Just repeat that same thing day after day? Boring!
You can still threaten to cancel. It will be even more effective when the power of cancelling is in your hands instead of theirs, and as easy as one click. Not sure if you were being sarcastic.
Great job! Now that you took days to produce the latest figures, can you change them completely in order to match this other figure our colleague haphazardly made because reasons?
They should take away the positives, and negatives from those past meetings, rather then dismissing them entirely. Have something constructive to say or don't say anything at all.
I don't see how their defeatist attitude added anything to the discussion, so I had to call them out on it. I don't have a solution either, but I see the benefit in world leaders getting together to at least have a record of the issues we are facing.
He's "investigating" in the same way bigots do when they say they "did their own research".