Obama Ends Visit With Challenge to India on Climate Change

New York Times ^ | January 27, 2015 | by PETER BAKER and ELLEN BARRY

[Oldeconomybuyer]

NEW DELHI — President Obama pressed India on Tuesday to do more to curb the pollution that is choking its capital and contributing to global climate change, as he wrapped up a visit that yielded no meaningful breakthrough on the issue.

While India and the United States agreed to cooperate in promoting cleaner energy, Mr. Obama left after three days without the sort of specific commitment to curbing greenhouse gases that he won in China last year. Instead, he used a farewell speech before his departure to argue that India had an obligation to step up, despite its economic challenges.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[rarestia]

Honestly, anything this idiot spews makes me cringe. He’s like a poorly-timed punchline to a bad joke.

[GeronL]

A country that still poops on the road and where dead bodies float down the Ganges... is supposed to be worried about a little global warming??

[SoFloFreeper]

I hope India told him to shove it.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Isn’t the gossip that this trip to India was hastily arranged to give Obama an excuse to visit Riyadh?

[justrepublican]

I SEE GLOBAL WARMING PEOPLE

[KyCats]

No. Original purpose of travel was sightseeing trip to Taj Mahal with Wookie. Death of Saudi King forced change of plans.

[Dr. Sivana]

A country that still poops on the road and where dead bodies float down the Ganges... is supposed to be worried about a little global warming??

Yeah, even if they believed the anthropogenic climate change nonsense, the instinctive response for me would be, "Sure, after you went and developed a modern infrastructure you get all holy and want to keep us from getting the same benefits . . . sorry, pal."

[Bon mots]

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[Bon mots]

Yes, that's him. Chewing gum, blowing bubbles and spitting out gum into his hand.
No wonder nobody wants to shake his hand.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Oh... thanks.

[bgill]

They're way ahead of bozo. One train per one bazillion riders.

[minnesota_bound]

Raj: Howard, wait. Why don’t you use this instead of the PVC to keep the transverse filter assembly in place?

Howard: Because this is not a spare part from the space station. This is the thing from the pizza box that keeps the lid from touching the cheese.

Raj: That what that’s for? In India, the lid just touches the cheese. Of course, we also have rampant poverty and periodic outbreaks of cholera, so a little cardboard in our cheese is no biggie.