Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/24/2009 5:15:34 PM PST by Libloather
Browner: U.S. in 'good standing' heading into Copenhagen talks
By Ben Geman - 11/18/09 07:16 PM ET
White House climate czar Carol Browner downplayed the idea that the absence of a domestic emissions law would hinder U.S. leverage in Copenhagen and said the U.S. could tout major accomplishments heading into next month’s international climate talks.
In wide-ranging remarks at a climate conference in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, she also said President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao made substantial progress in their Beijing discussions this week.
Browner, the senior White House energy and climate adviser, pointed to tens of billions of dollars in “clean energy” financing in the stimulus law, as well as House passage of broad energy and climate legislation. A slow-moving Senate bill has been put off until next year.
She also cited several steps the administration has taken using its existing power, such as EPA and Transportation Department work to create joint vehicle mileage and greenhouse gas standards, as well as Energy Department appliance efficiency standards.
“We think we are in very, very good standing that this president has clearly demonstrated incredible leadership,” she said at a conference hosted by The Economist.
The aim of next month’s Copenhagen talks has been downgraded to reaching a political accord on emissions, aid for climate change mitigation and adaptation, and other measures. Efforts to reach a final, legally binding international agreement have been pushed into next year.
Obama and Hu, according to the White House, reached agreements on a number of areas, including that each country would take “significant” efforts to curb emissions, and that the Copenhagen political accord should include emissions mitigation commitments by developed and developing nations. They also agreed that both nations would stand behind its commitments, among other areas.
Signs of cooperation by the two countries are closely watched because China is now the world’s top emitter and the U.S. is the second-largest source of heat-trapping gases.
“We move on now to Copenhagen with really an important statement from the Chinese on what they are prepared to discuss,” Browner said.
Browner said there has not yet been a decision about whether Obama would attend the Copenhagen talks.
In other remarks, she urged against splitting up sweeping energy and climate legislative plans into smaller pieces, deflecting suggestions such as a cap-and-trade plan applied only to power plants.
Some lawmakers, such as Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), have called for the Senate to act separately on an energy package approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in June, which includes a national renewable electricity standard, a so-called “green bank,” and a suite of other energy measures. It does not impose an emissions-cutting mandate.
But Browner said the White House wants a broad energy and climate package that includes an economy-wide cap-and-trade plan. “We want comprehensive legislation,” she said. She said a piecemeal approach would not provide industries with enough predictability. “Slicing and dicing isn’t going to work,” she said.
Browner also called joint efforts by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to craft a bipartisan climate package outside of the committee process a significant step. The three are working on a plan that would marry emissions limits with wider offshore oil-and-gas drilling and expanded federal support for building new nuclear power plants. “We meet with them on a regular basis,” she said.
Their effort is aimed at assembling a compromise deal that can attract 60 Senate votes, which the cap-and-trade plan that emerged from the Environment and Public Works Committee lacks.
They all may need to be brought up on criminal charges.
THAT is EXACTLY what should happen....bring these liars and scammers up on charges....
Why in hell does anybody in our sovereign nation need to "tout" anything to the "international community"?
Cariol Browner probably has a Communist Party membership card with a single digit membership number.
>> “We think we are in very, very good standing that this president has clearly demonstrated incredible leadership,” [Browner] said at a conference hosted by The Economist.
Blood is thicker than water. In the same vein, in Browner’s and Bambi’s case, color is thicker than reality.
>> Carol Browner probably has a Communist Party membership card with a single digit membership number.
The I.Q. field is also a single digit.
Browner is indeed a communist, card or no card. As are most of Obama’s CZARS.
So has anyone asked about what effect the CRU emails would have on Copenhagen?
If it wouldn’t have an effect, why not?
Does the stench of corruption not give this administration any pause whatsoever before they sign away another few million jobs to a scam?
Simple questions, who will ask them?
Global warming is a hoax.
Browner is just another whore for the White House pimp.
Progress for the Chinese. Sanctions for the USA.
Its a fraud! We need to do NOTHING!
Browner should face criminal theft charges when the adults take back Washington.
Isnt Browner an avowed socialist...card carrying-type?
My question is: Shouldn’t there be screams of joy in reaction to the news of this fraud? The sky isn’t falling! The world isn’t ending! The polar bears are going to LIVE! Environmentalists who had said that it was already too late, now realize that their fears will not be realized. The nighmare is over. Instead we get silence. Perhaps it wasn’t the environment that they were concerned with all along.
I support a 100% tax on the profits anyone made on this hoax to be payed back to the American people in rebates.
On a used but not yet crushed clunker?
I used to own one - 351 Cleveland - red with a white vinyl top. Front seat big enough for four. WHAT A HORSE!
These marxist a-holes will stop at nothing. Read the poorly written works of idiot Alinsky. They will undermine everything our culture holds dear: religion, morality, capitalism, culture, meritocracy, family, scientific method, truth, fact and so on. They are top be despised and destroyed. we must fight them with all our fiber. To be complacent is to allow them control and success. I really think I am not extreme in my views. Just look at how our freedoms have been corroded and, in some cases, destroyed by these vermin.
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