High Drama in Copenhagen (per Administration Officials)

So how much will the breakthrough cost taxpayers?
I’m guessing Obama would promise anything rather than come back from Copenhagen emptyhanded again.
And like his Health Care bill, it doesn’t matter how crappy it is–Obama will brag about making history.

Wow! Do we have a president or a superhero?

Does ANYONE believe that Obama decided to just BARGE in on China, India, Brazil and South Africa? I wish this administration would quit the fantasy spinning.
And after watching the video of Obama’s speech I can ask only one thing.
Obama mocked the Kyoto Protocol by mentioning that it WAS legally bound yet few countries met their legal obligations.
So given the Copenhagen agreement is NOT legally binding what does that tell us about what was REALLY accomplished.
It tells us it was ‘meaningful’ but nothing more.
And Obama had a terrible time answering questions…. just imaging how Gibbs will fare.

“Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready?”
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I don’t know what to make of this. It seems such an odd thing to do.

I still don’t get this —– We pony up 100 billion a year to 3rd world countries, to ease the guilt trip for leading the industialization of the world over the last 200+ years. No doubt the 100 billion will go into corrupt regimes, as we struggle to maintain our own standard of living.
This is to easy to be hard! Devote the 100 billion to develope battries and other sources of clean engery for transportation. Not only do we create jobs, but vastly reduce our dependence on foreigh oil, reduce greenhouse gas emmissions, and reduce the heating process. We save trillions of gallons of fuel, pay down our debt [reduced deficit] and make a vast contribution to meaningful gas reduction.
But this is not politically correct, is it?
The true reason for all of this, is not the condition of the earth, it’s “World Socialism” I for one, can not, and will not have anything to do with reducing the quality of the American way of life.

Obama helps produce a climate plan that is full of loopholes. What a surprise.
Sounds like his plan to regulate Wall Street.

Is this the moment when the rise of the oceans begin to slow and our planet begins to heal?
I think that was one of Obama’s campaign promises.

Who says this is the earth’s optimal temperature right now? Maybe 2 degrees warmer would save lives in cold climates? Basic questions, never addressed.
What if we overdo our efforts and trigger an ice age and can’t grow food?

““Four against one,” an official said to the president.
“No problem, I’ll bow 4 times before they know what hit ‘em!” he replied.
Fixed.

Is this the moment when the rise of the oceans begin to slow and our planet begins to heal?
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Obama’s phrase during the election was ‘a planet in peril’ if I recall correct, and he said it needed to be addressed internationally.
That’s more than you can say for the full 8 years wasted by the last administration.
Posted by: tierra |
The Obama quote was close enough.
Given you opinion of the bush years that is damning with faint praise.

These guys want to be treated as major economies in one moment, and in another they are clamoring to wear their third world status! Shame on you China, India and Brazil, if you dont believe in climate change say and act so, stand up and be counted. Climate justice is an equal opportunity punishment.

George Monbiot blogs:
“The nation states, pursuing their own interests, have each been passing the parcel of responsibility since they decided to take action in 1992.
We have now lost 17 precious years; possibly the only years in which climate breakdown could have been prevented. This has not happened by accident: it is the result of a systematic campaign of sabotage by certain states, which has been driven and promoted by the energy industries. This idiocy has been aided and abetted by the nations characterised, until now, as the good guys… In all cases immediate self-interest has trumped the long-term welfare of humankind. Corporate profits and political expediency have proved to be more urgent concerns than either the natural world or human civilisation. Our political systems are incapable of discharging the main function of government: to protect us from each other.
Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest; it was nice knowing you, not that we really cared. The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns.”

Team O and countless world leaders couldn’t even get a binding agreement to reach an agreement in the next 12 months?
Why did he go again? Sec. Clinton already announced the $100BN fundraiser to save the planet, what did O get?
When Sec. Clinton said the president shouldn’t meet with world leaders unless s/he is assured a positive outcome she was right…

I find the impulsivity and lack of decorum here to be disturbing and very likely not without consequence. First off, presidents don’t show up to negotiate stuff, they come to sign a deal that has already been made. Secondly, pulling this kind of juvenile stunt by barging in on the Chinese Premier when he already knows that this conference failed (and he shouldn’t have come) is foolish and insulting. This guy needs somebody to buy the Treasuries he is selling to finance his unprecedented debt, and the Chinese are sitting on $800B right now and considering dumping it. Thanks for provoking them needlessly, jackass.

Yes, struggling to maintain our own standard of living is high on Obama’s list. Don’t you recall his statements during the campaign when he said Americans should not expect to be able to set their thermostats at 72, eat all they want and drive their SUV’s? He has made his intentions quite clear but Americans are not listening. Wake up people. He hates his country and is attempting to kill it any way he can all the while keeping his own thermostat at 85. Lovely man eh?

The faster the USA becomes a ‘third world’ nation, the happier Ø will be.