Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/13/2009 1:18:47 PM PST by shielagolden
Kyoto Redux: Clinton Vows to Use Cabinet Position to Push for Climate Treaty Secretary of State nominee and Senate Foreign Relations Chair both call global warming a 'security threat.'
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Change we can all believe in? How about the same song and dance, but just a different day?
In opening remarks at her confirmation hearing on Jan. 13, President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations committee she would use the office to shape foreign policy that would fight climate change
“You Mr. Chairman [Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.] were among the very first in a growing chorus from both parties to recognize that climate change is an unambiguous security threat,” Clinton said. “At the extreme it threatens our very existence. But well before that point, it could well incite new wars of an old kind over basic resources – like food, water and arable land.”
According to Clinton, the upcoming 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference in Copenhagen will be the stage for the next opportunity for the United States to ratify a climate change treaty like the Kyoto Protocol, which was rejected by the U.S. Senate 95-0 in 1997.
“President-elect Obama has said America must be a leader in developing and implementing a global and coordinated response to climate change,” Clinton said. “We will participate in the upcoming Copenhagen climate conference and a global energy forum. And we’ll pursue an energy policy that reduces our carbon emissions while reducing our dependence on foreign oil and gas, fighting climate change and enhancing our economic and energy security.”
Many in the media have long pointed to the Copenhagen conference as the next best chance for an international treaty like Kyoto to be ratified by the U.S. government. Andrew Revkin, the climate reporter for The New York Times, noted this on the Times Dot Earth blog in late 2007.
“So the 100-year march trying to accelerate the decarbonization of energy systems has made another step along the road,” Revkin wrote. “The next big step will come in Copenhagen precisely two years from now. Will there be a Copenhagen Protocol? Who will be the president will shape the United States position, and — more important — actions?”
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, also used the hearing to promote the issue of global warming activism. He called it a “national security threat.”
“Before turning to Sen. Lugar, let me just say one thing about global climate change,” Kerry said. “Many today do not see global climate change as a national security threat, but it is – profoundly so.”
Kerry urged Clinton to be proactive in pursuing a climate change treaty with the upcoming conference in December.
“And the consequences of our inaction grow more serious by the day,” Kerry said. “In Copenhagen this December, we have a chance to forge a treaty that will profoundly affect the conditions of life on our planet itself. The resounding message from the recent climate change conference in Poland was that the global community is looking overwhelmingly to our leadership.”
Kerry also offered a peek into what his Senate chairmanship would have in store when it comes to dealing with this issue.
“This committee will be deeply involved in crafting a solution that the world can agree to and that the Senate can ratify,” Kerry continued. “And as we proceed the lesson of Kyoto must remain clear in our minds – all countries must be part of that solution.”
In February 2008, Kerry blamed a series of thunderstorms that killed at 50 people throughout the Southeastern United States on global warming and warned there would be more to come if global warming weren’t addressed
Will she be addressing global warming or the coming ice age?
When gas costs $10 a gallon I suppose all the ones who voted for O with stars in their eyes will blame Bush, no matter how many years it takes.
I don’t see ANYTHING about environmental policy on the State Department website:
http://www.state.gov/travelandbusiness/
http://www.state.gov/issuesandpress/
She’s outside of the scope of her office.
Clinton, Kerry, Obama... ...that reminds me...
...I’ve been wondering... is doofi the plural of doofus?
And so many of the O voters drive SUVs too.
Let the morons march on with this. The tide and temperature is turning and soon enough Americans will realize this was hysteria
If she can’t rule as queen of the world, then she will rule buy bureaucratict pronouncement.
I thought the one good think about an Obamarama win would be the final defeat of the clintons- but we got most of their crew back in power.
What gives? IIRC, Bill Clinton opposed Kyoto and was ready to veto it. She’s never said that was a mistake then or since. New man in her life, I guess.
watch the video
Better hope so or we’re in for a massive power grab and some unpleasant times.
This is enough to gag a maggot.
When the public DOES wise up that it was a fraud, I want prosecution of those who bilked governments for BILLIONS of dollars on SCAMS like “carbon offset credits” and forced valid technologies out of the marketplace to be replaced by select technologies marketed by connected interests.
Presidential Candidate and Senator Hillary Clinton Endorses World ...Mar 17, 2008 ... Presidential Candidate and Senator Hillary Clinton Endorses World Government. Watch below as you hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. ...
The Video Hillary doesn’t want you to see: Hillary Clinton and Walter Cronkite at World Federalist Association meeting (1999)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4576126608705279626
I wonder how long it will take for the scientific community to realize there are as many theories about global warming as there are scientists? That said, if scientists can't get together on causation, how can they determine a plan to alter it?
In a word (or 2) they can't!
How many of Obama’s $trillions, $1,0000,000,000,000 will we WASTE before the ‘scientists’ say, “Well, we tried and I guess it is JUST NATURE'S (read: GOD’s) WILL!”
Buzzard barf ping
This video is in 8 parts at the bottom of each is a link to the next portion of the May 22 news briefing on Obama’s Communist Connections.
http://www.usasurvival.org/obama.briefing.html
Yes, claiming you know how to change the weather is ceretainly above her pay grade.
Climate change; Something else we can use to nickel and dime em to death.
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