Obama urges poorer nations to fight global warming (Please poor nations, stop that cow from farting)

yahoo ^ | 7/9/2009 | BEN FELLER

[tobyhill]

President Barack Obama said Thursday the global recession makes it harder to strike an international agreement to battle dangerous temperature increases, but he urged the poor emerging economies that rejected specific clean-energy goals to "fight the temptation toward cynicism" and embrace them soon.

"There is no contradiction between environmentally sustainable growth and robust economic growth," Obama said at the conclusion of a forum of the world's 17 major economies, which account for about 80 percent of emissions of heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming. "We can either shape our future or we can let events shape it for us."

The Group of Eight nations — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States — agreed at their summit in this central Italian town to a goal of cutting the world's greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, and emissions from their countries by 80 percent by then to help get there. But developing nations, invited to join the summit of their wealthier industrialized counterparts to talk climate change, refused to sign on for specific emissions-reductions targets for their own countries.

[GourmetDan]

These guys can’t be this stupid, can they?

Voters, yes; officials, no.

[Steamburg]

Ah yes, Obama recalls how we averted the last great global warming by killing off the Bison herds! I’m sure he read about that white man plot somewhere while listing to reggae and puffing the ganja man.

[BigEdLB]

Obama's thoughts contribute to global warming.

Michelle is gonna slap him when she sees this.

[Nervous Tick]

Poorer nations give US the finger.

Of course, that’s the same as it always has been, but it’s S’-WEET when it’s on Bambi’s watch...

[Nervous Tick]

>> Michelle is gonna slap him when she sees this.

I hope she uses those renowned muscular ol’ arms of hers like a windmill, and beats the everlovin’ crap out of him!

Now, to be fair, I’dve looked, too. Apparently Sarko felt the same way.

[Wooly]

If you are a person who believes that the earth is being destroyed by CO2, a PETA Member, Environmental Whack’o or a Democrat Liberal Moron that thinks Al Gore is smart. Do something real to save the earth, Kill Yourself. That's right to save the earth from CO2 based climate change kill yourself, put actions where you mouth is. For each 10 years you do not live you keep 9125 pounds of CO2 from entering the atmosphere (if you are like John Kerry, Chris Matthews, Robert Gibbs, AL Sharpton, or Jessie Jackson the savings is 83,225 pounds of CO2 and Methane each 10 years). So if you are a 20 year old who thinks Obama is great if you kill yourself now instead of living to 80 you will be responsible for saving the earth from almost 55,000 pounds of CO2.

[Walrus]

WHAT freakin’ global warming??????? There is no such thing!

[HerrBlucher]

Yeah, but that chick is hot, and looks ready to cap and trade.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !