Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/05/2009 5:39:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
PRAGUE (AFP) – President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States was ready to take the lead in tackling climate change, as EU leaders pushed him to follow their ambitious targets to combat global warming.
"To protect our planet, now is the time to change the way that we use energy," Obama told a crowd gathered at Prague Castle for his only public speech during his maiden tour of Europe.
"Together we must confront climate change by ending the world's dependency on fossil fuels by tapping the power from the sources of energy like the wind and the sun and calling upon all nations to do their part.
"And I pledge to you that in this global effort the US is now ready to lead."
Obama's promise of a leading US role on climate change broke with his predecessor George W. Bush's stance, which had long frustrated Washington's European Union partners.
He was speaking ahead of his first EU-US summit, with European leaders eager for signs Washington is finally willing to commit to major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
European leaders were often exasperated by his predecessor's failure to commit the United States to climate change targets, especially because Europe has set itself ambitious goals.
Their frustration has been compounded by the fact that the United States is the world's biggest polluter, leaving the impression in Europe that EU countries are doing all the heavy-lifting in the fight against climate change.
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Climate Change.I get up some mornings,it rains,others the sun shines,cold one day,hot the next.What’s the big deal?
This is because narcissists have an insatiable need for adoration. He can't get that inside the White House, except from the press corps.
This is the worst crock ever. It really sickens me when GOP politicians get on board with this.
Frigging unicorns.
BUMP!
PROVE IT, you lying sack of macaca! Let's see the figures for ALL forms of "pollution"; not just cherry picked and massaged individual pollutants.
We have scrubbers of one type or another on nearly all of our stacks.
We've had catalytic converters on our vehicles, as well as both older & newer mandated measures, to clean our auto emissions for from years to decades.
We have 1/4 the population of China, but ALL of our even smallest towns have sewerage/waste-water treatment plants, with secondary & tertiary treatment at the larger cities.
Newer, cleaner controls on what is left of mining & smelting.
Our farming pollution control practices are among the best.
On, and on, and on.
Overall, (and I can say it with confidence, having grown up in the 1950s) our country is cleaner aired, and cleaner watered, especially on a percapita basis, than just about any place else that is worth living; and certainly than it was 50 years ago.
Don't get me started on that other outdated...if ever true...canard about only 5% of the world's population hogging 25% of the world's energy.
Good idea.
Maybe we can get Mark Sanford working on this.
Oh, wait...
That is an extrememly fragile, unique, and pristine environement, that must be protected from development. And the untested but potentially dangerous technology involved in beaming the energy back to earth....
Hey Obama, if you really believe CO2 is a pollutant, show us the way and STOP exhaling. SS, this is not a threat. It is just an In Your Face observation of the crap politicians are forcing down the tax payers’ throats.
They do have a plan to fight AGW!
You can read about it here
Is the painting behind him historical? It looks like a European fawning pretender about to kiss someones ring in a deep bow.
I hear, ya. I don’t trust the sun either. Sure, it was there yesterday. I am talking about the future. Moon reflects sunlight, sure it does!
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