California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses the U.N. Climate Summit Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Posted on 09/24/2007 8:08:42 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had the same message on Monday at a special session on climate change, urging quick action to stem emissions that heat the planet.
"Today let the world know that you are ready to shoulder this responsibility and that you will address this challenge head on," Ban told some 80 world leaders at the session's opening.
"The time has come to stop looking back at the Kyoto Protocol," Schwarzenegger said. "It is time to stop looking back in blame or suspicion ... The rich nations and the poor nations have different responsibilities, but one responsibility we all have is action."
Ban wants the one-day gathering to send a "strong political message" about the urgency of the problem of curbing the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.
It is the first of three U.S. events on climate change this week that are likely to focus attention on whether Washington can make good on its pledge to take a leading role in curbing such emissions.
But it is not a negotiating session. That will come in December in Bali, Indonesia, where climate experts will try to craft a successor to the emissions-limiting Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
Al Gore, the former presidential candidate and star of the Oscar-winning global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," is also to address the U.N. meeting.
But President George W. Bush, who defeated Gore, will not speak at this gathering, but he will dine with Ban after it ends.
Bush has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that requires 36 industrial nations to cut greenhouse emissions by at least 5 percent from 1990 levels by 2012.
He contends the accord unfairly burdens rich countries while exempting developing countries like China and India and that it will cost U.S. jobs.
Developing countries have said it is unfair to ask them to curb their emissions as their economies grow while industrialized nations have been polluting for decades.
Bush does plan to speak at a two-day Washington meeting at the State Department on Thursday and Friday, a gathering of "major economies" -- the world's biggest global warming contributors -- on energy security and climate change.
A third conference, the nongovernmental Clinton Global Initiative, will convene in New York from Wednesday through Friday to discuss climate change with participants from business, academia, entertainment and environmental organizations.
(Additional reporting by Jeff Mason)
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Action?
Vomit comes to mind initially and then moving to another solar system.
Action from China, India ?
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses the U.N. Climate Summit Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
“Action from China, India ?”
Al Gore was asked that very question The History Channel’s look at global warming. His response was that if the US does it, other will follow.
I couldn’t stop laughing.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses the United Nations High-level Event on Climate Change at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, September 24, 2007. REUTERS/Chip East (UNITED STATES)
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledges applause following his speech on climate change to the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Tom Hanson, The Canadian Press)
Silly me.
I mis-read the headline and actually thought Ahnold had pulled his head out and called for a ban on action! (I know - it didn’t make sense, but then nothing about GORE-bal warming does)...
Schwarzenegger: Ban call for action on climate
Then I know that wouldn't square with the facts. LOL!
Pay no attention to that hand in your pocket.. It’s just the UN and its latest hand puppet. (I’d prefer Angelina Jolie hand and not AHHHnold’s meself.. ;-)
UN DEMANDS GLOBAL WARMING (aka climate change/aka new ice age) BE ROOT OF UN CONTROLLED TAXATION.
Nam Vet
Our Governor here in Calif has his occasional moments of sensibility, but they are not common and this is not one of them.
But then again, the vote was between this mental successor to former Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown and a hard Left Dem.
Rarely is there a decent candidate here in Calif. Usually just a choice between “Let’s circle the drain a few more times” and “Let’s go for it!” (fast track down the drain).
But if Hillery gets to be Pres, then the rest of the USA will fast track to become where we are, here in the Land of Fruits and Nuts.
I read it the same way until I came to the realization that Ban was a name, not a verb.
Save the environment,
kill an environmentalist.
Thanks!
There sure does seem to be a surge in activity on many fronts going on... and with it , more propaganda and attacks.
Saddleup&Giddyup time
Arnold and Ban the Moon should move to Massachusetts and get married. Moonbats, the both of them!
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