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 wonder if the recent revelation of the GW science will come up at all in Copenhagen.
The game is up. The fraudulent hoax has been exposed. Copenhagen is now going to be about damage control over the leaked CRU emails.
“Welcome to Copenhagen, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for coming. Before we get started I would like to introduce and dismiss the Gorilla you all see sitting in the middle of this room....”
It is apparent Obama truly believes he is the messiah. He plans to prevent water evaporation and cloud formation. Jesus only walked on water.
The list, ping
Obama does not necessarily need Congress at all to impose sweeping emissions cuts/mandates throughout the U.S. economy.
The Supreme Court decided last year that the EPA has full authority under existing law to promulgate regulations to limit CO2 emissions. Thus, the executive branch does not necessarily need any additional legislative authority.
Oh, how silly of me! I forgot.
: )
Zero can shut his lying treasonous mouth and stop unwanted gas. Maybe the chef in the White House can stop serving beans so Hussein and his Witch won’t have gas that pollutes the air in the White House. They’re traitors and morons!
Sounds like a good place for a daisy cutter to go astray.
Kidding... cough.
If our Pisher in Chief would quit jetting around the globe on a weekly basis, we could achieve that EASILY.
This stuff is SO stupid!!
I like the way you think.
Do you realize that in a few decades at most, we would probably be arrested and put in jail for joking on the internet and registering our displeasure like this? The thought police will become a real police state at some point.
17%= unemployed Americans. Now there is a drop.
Don't stop at him. There are many others.
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