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Obama Official: ‘Climate’ Happiness is an Economic Downturn
American Spectator ^ | 4/5/11 | Chris Horner

Posted on 04/05/2011 3:20:39 PM PDT by Nachum

I mean, yes, they feel that way, but you're just not supposed to say it.

While I love the ClimateWire headline -- "U.S. vows continuing effort toward a 17% emission cut" (subscription required), sort of like I vow to continue my effort toward hitting fewer pedestrians when I drive...not to hit fewer pedestrians when I drive...ah, J-school -- the following excerpt from the piece is simply beyond belief.

Speaking to a U.N ‘Kyoto II' negotiating group in Bangkok, U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing "noted in a series of slides that U.S. emissions have declined about 8.7 percent since 2005 -- and while he acknowledged that a portion of that is due to the economic downturn, Pershing insisted that the more important metric is whether America is meeting its target."

Re-read that.

I suppose now is a bad time to remind people that Bill Clinton said, fairly recently of the same agenda, "We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; happiness; obama; official

1 posted on 04/05/2011 3:20:42 PM PDT by Nachum
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The list, ping

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2 posted on 04/05/2011 3:21:45 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Starving is so much better when you do not have to breath evil emissions on your last breath.


3 posted on 04/05/2011 3:24:48 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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To: screaminsunshine

Siphoning American tax payer dollars through this phoney scam called climate change is a nothing more than redistribution of American tax payers personel wealth through out the world, wake up were being visiously and deliberatley had with the support and encouragemnet of OUR elected criminals throughout DC including some of the no balls GOP. You can stick it where the sun dont shine


4 posted on 04/05/2011 3:31:41 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: ronnie raygun

Hey the GOP are the Good Cops!


5 posted on 04/05/2011 3:33:25 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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To: ronnie raygun

Hey the GOP are the Good Cops!


6 posted on 04/05/2011 3:33:37 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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To: ronnie raygun

Hey the GOP are the Good Cops!


7 posted on 04/05/2011 3:33:41 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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To: ronnie raygun

Hey the GOP are the Good Cops!


8 posted on 04/05/2011 3:33:51 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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To: ronnie raygun

Hey the GOP are the Good Cops!


9 posted on 04/05/2011 3:33:55 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

10 posted on 04/05/2011 3:44:34 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips)
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To: screaminsunshine

They must be REALLY good cops.


11 posted on 04/06/2011 6:20:33 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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