Posted on 11/25/2009 3:18:19 PM PST by ricks_place
WASHINGTON — Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress over higher costs for businesses and homeowners.
Obama will attend the start of the conference Dec. 9, a week from next Wednesday, before heading to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. He will "put on the table" a U.S. commitment to cut emissions by 17 percent over the next decade, on the way to reducing heat-trapping pollution by 80 percent by mid-century, the White House said.
Cutting U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by one-sixth in just a decade would be likely to hike energy bills, but the administration says there would be important health trade-offs.
Carol Browner, Obama's assistant for energy and climate change, cited a $173-per-year estimated cost in a briefing Wednesday — a figure for a family of four calculated by the Congressional Budget Office. Republicans say costs would be higher.
But slashing carbon dioxide emissions could save millions of lives, mostly by reducing preventable deaths from heart and lung diseases, according to studies published this week in The Lancet British medical journal.
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Al Qaeda likes the distraction.
That position was based on eliminating coal-fired power plants and replacing them with windpower.
Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit.
My questions is: What prestige it the author talking about?
From where I see it, it is just equal to his "nickname" - Zer0. End of story.
He shoudl be not only laughed out of copenhagen, but the nations should ask him “Since we’ve just discovered you’ve been tryign to scam the world with fraudulent ‘science’, why should ANY nation bow to your wishes?’ But of course, none of the nations will have the guts to stand up with the truth and expose Obama for the fraud that he is
I’m gonna go build a fire, and have one every frigging night. I’ll be sure to use green wood so I have lots of smoke.
I hope the great zero promises the world to these a$$holes in copenhagen, and then congress, out of self survival only, cuts his legs out from under him.
Maybe he’ll bring his team that brought the olympics to chicago? Oh, wait ....
I'll bet he is thinking that the EPA is going to do it even if the senate won't play ball. I still can't believe the mindless SCOTUS made this ruling in 2007:
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