US President Barack Obama delivers a speech at Hradcany Square near Prague Castle in Prague. Obama said Sunday the United States was ready to take the lead in tackling climate change, as EU leaders pushed him to follow their ambitious targets to combat global warming. (AFP)
So let me see, he promises to “lead” by following Europe down a path to disaster. All he’s saying is that he will try to get the US to fall in line.
Leadership we better not believe in.
We will all sleep better tonight.
There’s nothing wrong with fossil fuels. Unfortunately, Obama really believes this stuff.
Signed:
G-d.
5.56mm
It's back to horse drawn conveyances and sail.
If he’d just shut up for a couple of days that would reduce the hot air quite a bit.
The MINUTE this doofus is back on American soil proposing this and that, the ‘Free Market Sphincter’ will contract once again, making we contrarian investors rich, rich, RICH!
I DO so wish the price wasn’t the ruination of America, though. :(
Their collective jaws must be dropping as they see the destruction that they so longed to do being done by the so called Leader of the free world!
I am absolutely sure that they see a vast vacuum of leadership and an opportunity arising out of this.
There is no longer a leader of the free world.
Before I call Obama a “F”...ing idiot, I would like for him to know and understand that CHINA uses almost 300% more energy per unit of GDP than the US.
The US is ranked 12th (not that great but CHINA is ranked 81st!)
2007/2008 Human Development Report
22Energy and the environment
GDP per unit of energy use (2000 PPP US$ per kg of oil equivalent) Export results to Excel
http://hdrstats.undp.org/indicators/212.html
HDI Rank Country 2004
1 Iceland 2.5
2 Norway 5.9
3 Australia 4.8
4 Canada 3.4
5 Ireland 9.5
6 Sweden 4.5
7 Switzerland 8.3
8 Japan 6.4
9 Netherlands 5.8
10 France 5.9
11 Finland 3.8
12 United States 4.6
13 Spain 6.9
14 Denmark 7.9
15 Austria 7.3
16 United Kingdom 7.3
17 Belgium 5.2
18 Luxembourg 6.1
19 New Zealand 5.1
20 Italy 8.2
21 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 11.5
22 Germany 6.2
23 Israel 7.3
24 Greece 7.4
25 Singapore 4.4
26 Korea (Republic of) 4.2
27 Slovenia 5.4
28 Cyprus 5.9
29 Portugal 7.1
30 Brunei Darussalam ..
31 Barbados ..
32 Czech Republic 4.0
33 Kuwait 1.9
34 Malta 7.5
35 Qatar ..
36 Hungary 5.9
37 Poland 5.1
38 Argentina 7.4
39 United Arab Emirates 2.2
40 Chile 6.1
41 Bahrain 1.8
42 Slovakia 3.9
43 Lithuania 4.5
44 Estonia 3.5
45 Latvia 5.6
46 Uruguay 10.4
47 Croatia 5.6
48 Costa Rica 10.0
49 Bahamas ..
50 Seychelles ..
51 Cuba ..
52 Mexico 5.5
53 Bulgaria 3.0
54 Saint Kitts and Nevis ..
55 Tonga ..
56 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ..
57 Antigua and Barbuda ..
58 Oman 3.0
59 Trinidad and Tobago 1.3
60 Romania 4.5
61 Saudi Arabia 2.0
62 Panama 8.4
63 Malaysia 4.1
64 Belarus 2.4
65 Mauritius ..
66 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.3
67 Russian Federation 2.0
68 Albania 5.9
69 Macedonia (TFYR) 4.6
70 Brazil 6.8
71 Dominica ..
72 Saint Lucia ..
73 Kazakhstan 1.9
74 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2.6
75 Colombia 10.9
76 Ukraine 2.0
77 Samoa ..
78 Thailand 4.9
79 Dominican Republic 7.6
80 Belize ..
81 China 4.4
82 Grenada ..
83 Armenia 5.6
84 Turkey 6.2
85 Suriname ..
86 Jordan 3.6
87 Peru 10.9
88 Lebanon 3.5
89 Ecuador 4.8
90 Philippines 7.9
91 Tunisia 8.2
92 Fiji ..
93 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ..
94 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 3.1
95 Paraguay 6.4
96 Georgia 4.1
97 Guyana ..
98 Azerbaijan 2.5
99 Sri Lanka 8.3
100 Maldives ..
101 Jamaica 2.5
102 Cape Verde ..
103 El Salvador 7.0
104 Algeria 6.0
105 Viet Nam 4.2
106 Occupied Palestinian Territories ..
107 Indonesia 4.1
108 Syrian Arab Republic 3.4
109 Turkmenistan 1.3 1
110 Nicaragua 5.2
111 Moldova 2.0
112 Egypt 4.9
113 Uzbekistan 0.8
114 Mongolia ..
115 Honduras 4.8
116 Kyrgyzstan 3.3
117 Bolivia 4.5
118 Guatemala 6.4
119 Gabon 4.9
120 Vanuatu ..
121 South Africa 3.7
122 Tajikistan 2.1
123 Sao Tome and Principe ..
124 Botswana 8.6
125 Namibia 10.2
126 Morocco 10.3
127 Equatorial Guinea ..
128 India 5.5
129 Solomon Islands ..
130 Lao People’s Democratic Republic ..
131 Cambodia ..
132 Myanmar ..
133 Bhutan ..
134 Comoros ..
135 Ghana 5.4
136 Pakistan 4.2
137 Mauritania ..
138 Lesotho ..
139 Congo 3.3
140 Bangladesh 10.5
141 Swaziland ..
142 Nepal 4.0
143 Madagascar ..
144 Cameroon 4.5
145 Papua New Guinea ..
146 Haiti 6.2
147 Sudan 3.7
148 Kenya 2.1
149 Djibouti ..
150 Timor-Leste ..
151 Zimbabwe 2.6
152 Togo 3.1
153 Yemen 2.8
154 Uganda ..
155 Gambia ..
156 Senegal 6.5
157 Eritrea ..
158 Nigeria 1.4
159 Tanzania (United Republic of) 1.3
160 Guinea ..
161 Rwanda ..
162 Angola 3.3
163 Benin 3.3
164 Malawi ..
165 Zambia 1.5
166 Côte d’Ivoire 3.7
167 Burundi ..
168 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2.2
169 Ethiopia 2.8
170 Chad ..
171 Central African Republic ..
172 Mozambique 2.6
173 Mali ..
174 Niger ..
175 Guinea-Bissau ..
176 Burkina Faso ..
177 Sierra Leone ..
He’s losing the battle so bad they can’t even use the cliche Global Warming. Now it is even more subjective Climate Change.
Pray for America, Our Troops and the Tea Parties
You folks do not understand the urgency of this crisis !!!
Global temperatures have been steady or falling for the past 11 years. If some meaningless carbon program is not established soon - there will be no way to take credit for it !!
Two words for the TOTUS.
Thorium. Reactors.
Cheers!
You can count on it...
Worse - I suspect America is now too “civilized” and lacking in testosterone to initiate the “French Solution” against our Thugocracy as the French did with their "Royalty".
Why does the great one what to change the climate? I like it the way it is. Gee whiz, first the banks, then the auto companies and now the climate. Go figure.
“And I pledge to you that in this global effort the US is now ready to lead.”
B.S. The eco-nazis don't really want wind and solar power. They relentlessly oppose any actual construction of said power plants, while using the promise of the same to foil development of coal, oil and nuclear sources. There is a private company now trying to build a solar power farm in the Mojave desert. They are opposed by Diane Feinstein and the usual eco-groups because the Mojave is supposedly a “unique evironment”. Duh! Everyplace is a “unique environment”. If you cannot build solar power farms in the middle of the desert, where exactly are you going to put the 160,000 square miles of solar panels it would take to replace coal plants? On the moon?
“Obama pledges US lead on climate change”
I won’t be pledging to that.
There is no climate change caused by humans ,dipstick ,and if there were you couldnt change it back.