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President Obama Won’t Talk Climate Change In Copenhagen
London Times ^ | October 23rd 2009

Posted on 10/23/2009 6:55:27 PM PDT by Steelfish

October 24, 2009

President Obama Won’t Talk Climate Change In Copenhagen

Barack Obama will be in Oslo for his Nobel ceremony, but not Copenhagen

Giles Whittell, Washington

President Obama will almost certainly not travel to the Copenhagen climate change summit in December and may instead use his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to set out US environmental goals, The Times has learnt.

With healthcare reform clogging his domestic agenda and no prospect of a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen, Mr Obama may disappoint campaigners and foreign leaders, including Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, who have urged him to attend to boost the hopes of a breakthrough.

The White House would not comment on Mr Obama’s travel plans yesterday, but administration officials have said privately that “Oslo is plenty close” — a reference to the Nobel ceremony that falls on December 10, two days into the Copenhagen meeting.

The White House confirmed that the President would be in Oslo to accept the prize, but a source close to the Administration said it was “hard to see the benefit” of his going to Copenhagen if there was no comprehensive deal for him to close or sign.

Another expert, who did not want to be named, said he would be “really, really shocked” if Mr Obama went to Copenhagen, adding that European hopes about the power of his Administration to transform the climate change debate in a matter of months bore little relation to reality.

The comprehensive climate change treaty that for years has been the goal of the Copenhagen conference was now an “unrealistic” prospect, Yvo de Boer, the UN official guiding the process, said last week.

Chinese and Indian resistance to mandatory carbon emission limits has so far proved an insurmountable obstacle to crafting a successor to the Kyoto Protocol..

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; climatechange; kyoto

1 posted on 10/23/2009 6:55:27 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; enough_idiocy; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 10/23/2009 6:56:53 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (Limit all U.S. politicians to two terms: One in office and one in prison!)
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To: Steelfish

Maybe he could swing by to take Michelle out to dinner.


3 posted on 10/23/2009 7:01:08 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Steelfish

Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty

Lord Monckton 20 minute segment I heard earlier today on WJR Detroit....all should hear it and listen carefully!

go to linked page, scroll down until you find the following title:

Frank speaks with Lord Monckton about his public opposition to the mainstream scientific consensus view on climate change

(October 23) - Frank speaks with Lord Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley is a British politician, business consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, inventor and hereditary peer, about his public opposition to the mainstream scientific consensus view on climate change.
Read more...

Listen or Download this show

http://www.wjr.net/Sectional.asp?id=6552


4 posted on 10/23/2009 7:08:00 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: Steelfish

Of course not he’s too busy crying about politics;

I’m supposed to be exempt as great black hope of the world, “Their supposed to love me, like God” and only report what I say, not what I do; this is so unfair.

...just think we’ll have to rename the Peter Principle in his honor somehow, he already holds a Nobel Prize for “never done a thing of importance as a natural born sneak, cheat and liar.”


5 posted on 10/23/2009 7:09:10 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Steelfish

“... may instead use his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to set out US environmental goals ... “

How very nice ... Oslo will know more than we will as Obama and his shadow government write his Crap and Tax bill behind closed doors ...


6 posted on 10/23/2009 7:09:27 PM PDT by fujimoh
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To: Steelfish

The Obamaloon cannot talk about anything without the prompter.

The King has no brain.


7 posted on 10/23/2009 7:15:42 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Steelfish
he White House confirmed that the President would be in Oslo to accept the prize, but a source close to the Administration said it was “hard to see the benefit” of his going to Copenhagen if there was no comprehensive deal for him to close or sign.

....but going to Denmark and attempting to muscle his way into a winning Olympic bid but coming back empty handed and looking like an epic loser is just fine and dandy.

8 posted on 10/23/2009 7:28:08 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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What about Afghanistan!?! When is the Narcissist-in-Chief going to do what he was actually elected to do?


9 posted on 10/23/2009 7:48:28 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Steelfish

Can we believe what we’re being told? Why?


10 posted on 10/23/2009 8:07:40 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: Steelfish

Why no projectile vomiting alert?


11 posted on 10/23/2009 8:24:34 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Steelfish
adding that European hopes about the power of his Administration to transform the climate change debate in a matter of months bore little relation to reality.

Truer words could not be spoken.....

12 posted on 10/23/2009 8:27:33 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: La Lydia

Well, the headline speaks for itself. All “intentions” and no results.


13 posted on 10/23/2009 8:30:53 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
We'll see if Barry tries to pull a fast on in Copenhagen or not....

China and India might end up indirectly saving us from a disastrous UN climate treaty. It's incredible that China and India are refusing to commit economic suicide and the US is doing everything it can to ensure that very outcome. But, hey, that's what communist hope and change is....

14 posted on 10/23/2009 8:48:20 PM PDT by kara2008
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To: Steelfish
hmmm- so he's going to by-pass speaking at the conference of the top project to bring about almost total takeover and redistribution of wealth?

Methinks things aren't looking good for its success - and he's not about to toddle off to Europe to spearhead something only to come home a total, egg on the face, looser again.

the Rats in DC are starting to line up on the stern of the listing boat -

HIs fiasco flop with FOX has caused the media in general to circle the wagons - and I imagine that makes the Rats very nervous.

He's stacking up a list of big losses - the only thing he's won is the empty Nobel Prize.

Ten months in office and he's beginning to look like a lame duck.

15 posted on 10/23/2009 11:23:46 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" LINCOLN)
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To: Steelfish
hmmm- so he's going to by-pass speaking at the conference of the top project to bring about almost total takeover and redistribution of wealth?

Methinks things aren't looking good for its success - and he's not about to toddle off to Europe to spearhead something only to come home a total, egg on the face, looser again.

the Rats in DC are starting to line up on the stern of the listing boat -

HIs fiasco flop with FOX has caused the media in general to circle the wagons - and I imagine that makes the Rats very nervous.

He's stacking up a list of big losses - the only thing he's won is the empty Nobel Prize.

Ten months in office and he's beginning to look like a lame duck.

16 posted on 10/23/2009 11:26:53 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" LINCOLN)
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To: steelyourfaith
President Obama will almost certainly not travel to the Copenhagen climate change summit in December

I'm stuned!

17 posted on 10/24/2009 1:22:41 AM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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