Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/25/2009 7:58:31 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Reporting from Washington - President Obama will attend the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month, according to a senior administration official, a sign of the president's increasing confidence that the talks will yield a meaningful agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
The White House also will announce today that the United States will commit, in the talks, to reduce its emissions of the heat-trapping gases scientists blame for global warming "in the range of" 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, the official said. That's the target set out in the climate bill the House passed in June.
The president will address negotiators on Dec. 9, just after the opening of the two-week summit, on his way to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize in nearby Sweden. His speech will come ahead of planned visits by prominent heads of state from Europe and around the world.
White House officials said the decision to attend came after productive climate discussions between Obama and the heads of China and India, two developing nations whose participation is seen as critical to any successful effort to negotiate an agreement.
Those discussions left the president optimistic that his presence in Copenhagen could seal a meaningful - though not legally binding - climate deal, meeting the standard that Obama previously set for his attendance at the summit, the officials said.
Environmentalists have pushed for Obama's attendance to add heft to the Copenhagen meeting, which was originally intended to produce a new climate deal to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
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I M P E A C H
oh.
wait.
Never mind...
Just because.
The Global Warming Fraud continues...
17% drop?? WE can do that ...
IF IF IF
Someone promises to DROP OZERO out of AirfArce1 on the WAY HOME.
Greenhouse gases will drop 17% when the public drags the House and Senate democrats into the street to tar and feather them for passing anything along the lines of Cap and Tax.
Of course, all the gunfire may raise the gas level up a bit, but that will only be temporary.
He may be able to achieve this by just shutting his mouth.
What are greenhouse gases? It is normally called rain. Keeps the planet cool enough for humans to live on.
Is a 10% INCREASE "in the range of 17%"?
easy enough for him to accomplish when he’s taking an extra million commuters off the road every month.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur
WTF???
He can promise anything he wants. Doesn’t mean squat.
Nothing seems to have any effect on this guy. He just keeps going with his insane plans.
Does his verbal promise have the weight of law? Just asking. Any lawyers want to explain? I take this to mean this is a drive-by teleprompter photo-op for the leftards with no strings attached. Just another worship me moment after he decided to stay in Afghanistan. It will be fun to watch his numbers in the next weeks.
No. As posted above any treaty must have 2/3 approval from the Senate.
Good luck hussien on getting that.
A 17% drop in green house gases?
It is a shame he isn’t promising half that in a drop of U.S. unemployment.
What an UPSIDE DOWN world we now live in.
:(
Even the Europeans know he’s full of shat.
Irony, we can drop that alleged greenhouse gases by 17% by simply denying Barry and company the use of AF1 given the sheer amount of galavanting he has done it in less than 1 year in office. =.=
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