Therefore, I endorse this commitment.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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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We will also see a dramatic decrease in our standard of living as a result of this madness.
But I guess creating a new class of poor doesn’t matter when you’re too busy worshipping at the alter of political correctness to give a damn.
***It will be fun to watch his numbers in the next weeks.**
The world needs fun.
Fun is good.
Federal funds for fun.
When I was a kid, I remember riding in a car past some houses made entirely of glass.
I asked my Daddy what these were.
Dad explained that these glass houses were “Greenhouses”, wonderful places where farmers could use the light and heat from the sun, capture it under glass, and control it to grow food and flowers and any kind of vegetables all year round, and not have to worry about weather, or bugs, or crop failure.
Isn’t that great?
BUT, just like with the Rainbow, the Cross, Conservation, Kindness to Animals, and Religious Tolerance, The liberals have taken something REALLY NICE and made it something NASTY.
Hey Obozo, stop exhaling CO2 if you’re really serious.
Therefore, I endorse this commitment.
Relax. Kyoto got a 95-0 Senate vote-against.
An unnamed source has told me he also plans of promising Hope and Change!
If he and Michelle could stop jet-setting around with their entourage and flying hamburgers in from across the land, and if he could stop blathering and dithering on TV constantly, I believe we could reduce it by 17% then and there.
He just declared war on “polluters” is all, well within his rights as President...
/s
If he and Michelle could stop jet-setting around with their entourage and flying hamburgers in from across the land, and if he could stop blathering and dithering on TV constantly, I believe we could reduce it by 17% then and there.
What, is he gonna
Cut the power to Algore’s house?
...That sounds about right...
The reality is that it’s not as far fetched as you may think. 25-30% unemployment will shut down quite a few things.
Just curious...With all of the negative publicity on AGW lately, Why hasn’t this Copenhagen gaffe been cancelled?
Oh, thats right. Its another cash grab for the homey’s.
Of course, the UN and IPCC know Obie's promises are useless too......
He should set an example by eliminating his oral emissions of CO2.
Let him promise whatever he wants.
Given his history of broken promises to Americans, I’m not too worried.
BTW, where is his middle class tax cut?
It seems data and numbers don’t mean anything these days. The government has “saved or created 400,000 jobs.” Global Warming scientists can manipulate data and hide the evidence. The recession is over. Government Healthcare will save $150 billion by spending $850 billion......
Obama should just tell them we will cut CO2 emissions by 117%. Next yeat we can say, “See, we did it. I have this peice of paper that says we have actually cut and reduced CO2 on this planet by 117%.”
Then we can quit the BS.
What are you talking about? Don't you read the news? Obama has saved or created 400,000 jobs and the recession is over.
” Obama will promise 17% drop in greenhouse gases”
Obama will promise anything.
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