Posted on 12/04/2009 3:15:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge
US President Barack Obama has changed his plans to attend the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen next week, the White House has announced.
He will arrive later than initially planned, moving his appearance from 9 December to 18 December.
The White House said he believed "that continued US leadership can be most productive through his participation at the end of the Copenhagen conference".
The summit aims to draw up a treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
The president had changed his plans after talks with other leaders and after seeing "the progress that has already been made to give momentum to negotiations".
Climate fund support
US representatives will attend the Copenhagen summit throughout negotiations, the White House added.
It said the president believed recent progress included the emissions reduction target announced by the US; China and India setting targets for the first time to reduce their carbon intensity and moves by members of the Commonwealth.
The White House said the president had discussed the state of the negotiations with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
He concluded there appeared to be growing support for the suggested $10bn annual fund to help developing countries deal with climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
My Daddy used willow switches to get my undivided attention, not very oft tho.
Would that we had some way to similarly ‘advise’ leaders in on the scam.
Jackasses may need something bigger to get their attention, maybe 2x4s.
Translation: Obama wants to get a sense of which way the political winds are blowing before he has to commit himself.
Oh well...gives us more time to take aim and blow it out of the water.
He’s going to tell everyone to break out into groups and write reports on their ideas for burying Climategate. He’s going to show up at the end to see everyone’s work, and he wants details.
more like tar and pitchforks....
The most open thing about the Obama Administration is his gutless pandering.
Come late - leave early works for me too.
EXACTLY...he’s going to wait until the LAST moment before he decides whether he can actually go thru with his support for this.....the winds are blowing HARD against it...let’s hope for a gale force by then!
He is an embarassment and a liability to this country.
First alGora chickens out and now the obummer is leaving room to in case the summit ‘heats up’ too much.
“Chickens coming home to roost.”
He’s going to go to SIGN ON the dotted line.
This is our sovereignty.
Obama has gone chicken.....
.....Remember first he wasn't going
.....Then he was going (I believe) to twist arms of dissenters like he tried in the Olympics fiasco.
.....NOW he sees the backlash building and he gets chicken.
"Make no mistake" (to quote him), he will still push Cap and Trade here. He just wants to keep his image clean as a groveler in the international arena.
Al “con man” Gore’s cancel, changed obama’s plans.
The “other shoe” in Climategate is that the whistleblower went to a reporter first, and the reporter did not want the story.
That means that the reporter probably knows who this is!
So why the delay in scooping up this Denier? This Data Thief?
MSM and the Warmists could be cooking up a major story, and waiting for the timing to be right. Maybe Day 2 of the Hopenhagen Conference?
And now The 0ne is shifting plans.
Translation: Obama wants to get a sense of which way the political winds are blowing before he has to commit himself.
++++++++++++++
Right. LOL. They have a 9 day window to try to get it right. It sucks when you’re beholdent to pseudo-science and liberal fantasies...(I don’t feel sorry for ‘em though! Maroons.)
We bumped this to breaking news.
Our advantage here is that, even tho’ our MSM is spiking this story - it’s a world wide scheme - and other countries are pulling out, shouting as they go.
The WH can’t keep the lid on this -
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.