Posted on 11/16/2009 5:40:16 PM PST by Kaslin
Diplomacy: If there's good news from Saturday's APEC summit, it's Asia's ninja blow to a global climate pact in Copenhagen. The dynamic region recognized the economy-killer for what it was and refused to commit suicide.
Global summits galore have paid obeisance to the holy grail of a global pact binding nations to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2050. President Obama, who is calling for a United Nations treaty in Copenhagen this December, said, "We're out of time" shortly before leaving for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
So that's why Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, who leads the U.N.'s Copenhagen group, was flown out to Singapore in a last-ditch bid to convince 19 leaders of the 21-nation APEC summit to support the pact. All he got for his trouble was egg on his face as Asian nations flatly rejected his pleas.
He's now trying to recover from that embarrassment by saying that the climate pact would be merely delayed, with the Copenhagen summit to be used to achieve a "political" commitment and next year's meeting serving as an occasion to impose emission quotas.
"We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook," Rasmussen said.
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Who would ever have thought we’d owe our continued prosperity (if any) to the Chicom’s refusal to buy into B. Hussein’s attempts to destroy us with faux science.
While this is good news I can’t help but think that Dear Leader will double down on his push for health care and cardcheck since cap-n-tax is now effectively off the table ... I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the rats don’t pull a stunt like calling a vote in the middle of the Thanksgiving recess ..
Well obviously they are seeing too as the empty suit he is and don’t take him seriously
I think the eco-ummunists need to rethink their strategy.
“Double-down” appears to be the unofficial motto of this regime. Of course it also fits Einstein’s definition of insanity...
Each time the Dear Leader pratfalls, his godlike aura and his ability to intimidate grow ever weaker.
Won’t be long before dissident dem congresscritters start putting him on hold.
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