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Posted on 09/16/2009 4:27:51 AM PDT by raybbr
GENEVA | Western nations that spent the past several years slamming the Bush administration for not doing enough to deal with climate change were conspicuously absent from a recent global climate conference.
The Obama administration sent a large entourage to the third World Climate Conference in Geneva earlier this month, trumpeting the return of the United States to the climate change debate.
But representatives from Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Australia were nowhere to be found. The European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-member European Union, also failed to send a commissioner.
In contrast, the United States sent a 41-member delegation, led by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco, with representatives from eight agencies, the White House and Capitol Hill. They succeeded in fending off last-minute demands for Western concessions to developing nations, and their diplomatic footwork helped secure the establishment of a global framework for climate services that all nations will need if a carbon-reduction agreement is reached later this year.
But with three months to go before delegates convene in Copenhagen for a U.N.-sponsored conference to establish a path toward the global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, diplomats say it is not clear whether the United States will be able to rally the support of its allies in the impending showdown with emerging nations such as China and India.
The absence of so many key European nations was disturbing to European diplomats who did show up. "EU member states are divided and unsure," said one ambassador, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Another top European envoy suggested that several countries are unwilling to make any commitments until they see what happens at the December conference.
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“Forty one people on a wasted trip.”
Wonder if they got to ride in one of the new jets?
“Wonder if they got to ride in one of the new jets?”
41 new jets.
Yep. 0bama provided the Wonder Women Jet. It's transparent.
Useful Idiots all of the Left.
China and India, the "emerging" nations, are going to eat the West like breakfast cereal at the so-called "showdown".
Fourty-one intellectual giants, burning a few tons of carbon-producing fuel, eating like potentates, contemplating the day when they will become commissars of the people’s energy supplies.
Priceless.
IMHO
What the hell does this mean? Climate services! A clearing house for the money taken from the pockets of earners, most likely.
I thought they all loved Barry.
Yeah—the EU to double-dare us. Now that we’re stupid enough to drink the Kool-Aid, they are nowhere to be found. The EU will be happy to let us shoot ourselves in the foot by reducing our carbon footprint while they watch, applaud, and do nothing. They are not stupid—this whole thing is one big scam and we are the suckers.
Am I sensing racism on a global scale?? It seems pretty obvious that these countries stopped believing in global warm...I mean climate change because our president is black. The SRM has confirmed that I am racist for opposing 0’s policies. So it just seems that this is a logical conclusion that these countries snubbed Obama for the same racist reasons.
You hit the nail right on the head. The others have awakened to the scam and we ar still trying to sel carbon credits that dont exist.
The SRM has confirmed that I am racist for opposing 0’s policies.
Jimma Karter called Joe Wilson a racist because he called “O” a liar.
so if I call Jimma Karter a liar, I guess I’m a racist too.
It seems that the democrats drop the race card anytime someone disagrees with their views. No matter what their views are.
It’s all fun and games until somebody trashes their economy...
LLS
The others have awakened to the scam and we ar still trying to sel carbon credits that dont exist.
The paper CC exist. Ask algore. But they are completely powerless to accomplish anything. I’m surprised Bernie Madoff wasn’t selling them.
The biggest scam is the trillions of dollars Obama is milking the system for. And Congress is making it legal.
My impulse was to laugh out loud upon reading this. For about one second until I remembered how serious a matter it is to have this communist faction in charge of our government.
Environazis are all talk and no action.
This proves it.
Not to mention that the cap and trade scam would put the final nail in the coffins of the socialist economies that are already in the tank. This may be the end of the AGW scam...much like the ice age I’m supposed to be in by about today.
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