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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: climategate; co2hoax; globalwarminghoax; liarsincharge; warmergate; waterabsorbsmore
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To: BradtotheBone

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.


21 posted on 11/25/2009 8:09:58 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Socialism is hip until somebody loses a paycheck)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

***It will be fun to watch his numbers in the next weeks.**

The world needs fun.
Fun is good.
Federal funds for fun.


22 posted on 11/25/2009 8:11:19 AM PST by sodpoodle (Stop spreading wealth and start spreading the truth.)
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To: BradtotheBone

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.


23 posted on 11/25/2009 8:12:55 AM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: BradtotheBone

Hey Obozo, stop exhaling CO2 if you’re really serious.


24 posted on 11/25/2009 8:12:56 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: BradtotheBone
The only way to achieve a 17% drop is to kill off the 29% of Americans who "strongly approve" of the way Obi is handling his job, and eliminate all EPA regulations on those of us remaining who produce things.

Therefore, I endorse this commitment.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

25 posted on 11/25/2009 8:14:37 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Relax. Kyoto got a 95-0 Senate vote-against.


26 posted on 11/25/2009 8:15:46 AM PST by almcbean
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To: BradtotheBone
At Copenhagen climate talks, Obama will promise 17% drop in greenhouse gases

An unnamed source has told me he also plans of promising Hope and Change!

27 posted on 11/25/2009 8:19:50 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: BradtotheBone

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.


28 posted on 11/25/2009 8:21:37 AM PST by bboop
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To: PDMiller

He just declared war on “polluters” is all, well within his rights as President...

/s


29 posted on 11/25/2009 8:21:50 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: BradtotheBone

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.


30 posted on 11/25/2009 8:24:17 AM PST by bboop
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To: BradtotheBone

What, is he gonna
Cut the power to Algore’s house?
...That sounds about right...


31 posted on 11/25/2009 8:25:44 AM PST by Haiku Guy (What I like about Karma is that it means that all the people I've screwed over deserved it - Dogbert)
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To: BradtotheBone

The reality is that it’s not as far fetched as you may think. 25-30% unemployment will shut down quite a few things.


32 posted on 11/25/2009 8:26:33 AM PST by SouthTexas (God Bless our Fort Hood Troops)
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To: BradtotheBone

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.


33 posted on 11/25/2009 8:28:24 AM PST by Artie (Why are methadone addicts the happiest people on earth?)
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To: kromike
My thought too. An Obama promise is as good as....as.....as good as this very day is long ! iow....the promise will expire within 24 hours. No worries here, imho.

Of course, the UN and IPCC know Obie's promises are useless too......

34 posted on 11/25/2009 8:28:35 AM PST by chiller ( ALMOST SPEECHLESS)
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To: BradtotheBone

He should set an example by eliminating his oral emissions of CO2.


35 posted on 11/25/2009 8:34:02 AM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: BradtotheBone

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?


36 posted on 11/25/2009 8:36:36 AM PST by earlJam
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To: BradtotheBone

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.


37 posted on 11/25/2009 8:39:51 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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To: BradtotheBone
If only we could get a 17% cut in spending, and a 17% cut in UNemployment claims, and a 17% cut in layoffs, and a 17% cut in televised obama speeches, and a 17% in dems who support healthcare and cap & trade...

The dirty little secret is that he's probably already got the "fix" in on the cuts, which makes this promise easy to keep because we're already there.

AND...

Since "climate-gate" has surfaced, the 2005 greenhouse gas numbers are no doubt BOGUS anyway...just telling the truth about the numbers would probably result in much smaller numbers than just a 17% reduction.

It's all a hoax, smoke and mirrors politics.
38 posted on 11/25/2009 8:41:18 AM PST by FrankR (SENATE: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10...count on it.)
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To: purpleporter
It is a shame he isn’t promising half that in a drop of U.S. unemployment.

What are you talking about? Don't you read the news? Obama has saved or created 400,000 jobs and the recession is over.

39 posted on 11/25/2009 8:42:20 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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To: BradtotheBone

” Obama will promise 17% drop in greenhouse gases”

Obama will promise anything.


40 posted on 11/25/2009 8:42:55 AM PST by RoadTest (```)
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