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At Copenhagen climate talks, Obama will promise 17% drop in greenhouse gases
LA Times ^ | November 25, 2009 | Jim Tankersley

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: climategate; co2hoax; globalwarminghoax; liarsincharge; warmergate; waterabsorbsmore
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1 posted on 11/25/2009 7:58:31 AM PST by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

I M P E A C H


2 posted on 11/25/2009 8:00:08 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: BradtotheBone
And he'll achieve it, too, given his track record of keeping promises...

oh.
wait.

Never mind...

3 posted on 11/25/2009 8:00:18 AM PST by kromike
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To: BradtotheBone; 4horses+amule; Desdemona; Fractal Trader; grey_whiskers; markomalley; scripter; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

4 posted on 11/25/2009 8:00:35 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: BradtotheBone
If it were me, I'd promise a 17.2% drop.

Just because.

5 posted on 11/25/2009 8:00:37 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: BradtotheBone

The Global Warming Fraud continues...


6 posted on 11/25/2009 8:01:12 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: BradtotheBone

17% drop?? WE can do that ...

IF IF IF

Someone promises to DROP OZERO out of AirfArce1 on the WAY HOME.


7 posted on 11/25/2009 8:01:55 AM PST by gwilhelm56 (Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
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To: BradtotheBone

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.


8 posted on 11/25/2009 8:02:06 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: kromike; BradtotheBone; stephenjohnbanker

He may be able to achieve this by just shutting his mouth.


9 posted on 11/25/2009 8:02:33 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: BradtotheBone

What are greenhouse gases? It is normally called rain. Keeps the planet cool enough for humans to live on.


10 posted on 11/25/2009 8:02:59 AM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: BradtotheBone
"in the range of" 17% below 2005 levels by 2020,

Is a 10% INCREASE "in the range of 17%"?

11 posted on 11/25/2009 8:03:15 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: BradtotheBone

easy enough for him to accomplish when he’s taking an extra million commuters off the road every month.


12 posted on 11/25/2009 8:03:38 AM PST by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: BradtotheBone
Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution:

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???

13 posted on 11/25/2009 8:03:46 AM PST by PDMiller
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To: BradtotheBone

He can promise anything he wants. Doesn’t mean squat.


14 posted on 11/25/2009 8:04:09 AM PST by IamConservative (Liberty is all a good man needs to succeed.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Nothing seems to have any effect on this guy. He just keeps going with his insane plans.


15 posted on 11/25/2009 8:06:01 AM PST by Venturer
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To: BradtotheBone

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.


16 posted on 11/25/2009 8:06:08 AM PST by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

No. As posted above any treaty must have 2/3 approval from the Senate.

Good luck hussien on getting that.


17 posted on 11/25/2009 8:07:32 AM PST by Double Tap
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To: BradtotheBone

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.

:(


18 posted on 11/25/2009 8:07:54 AM PST by purpleporter
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To: IamConservative

Even the Europeans know he’s full of shat.


19 posted on 11/25/2009 8:07:58 AM PST by refermech
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To: BradtotheBone

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. =.=


20 posted on 11/25/2009 8:09:12 AM PST by cranked
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