Posted on 12/14/2009 6:00:51 PM PST by NormsRevenge
COPENHAGEN – The atmosphere at the U.N. climate conference grew more tense and divisive after talks were suspended for most of Monday's session — a sign of the developing nations' deep distrust of the promises by industrial countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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The wrangle over emission reductions froze a timetable for government ministers to negotiate a host of complex issues. Though procedural in nature, the Africa-led suspension went to the core of suspicions by poor countries that wealthier ones were trying to soften their commitments and evade penalties for missing their targets.
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The negotiations were meant to extend the Kyoto pact for at least another five years, with deeper emission targets for rich countries. ..
The Africans protested when Hedegaard wanted to lump all the talks together.
"We are seeing the death of the Kyoto Protocol," Djemouai Kamel of Algeria, the head of the 50-nation Africa group, told reporters.
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
Tense , huh?
I hope that doesn’t raise their CO2 output significantly.
We may need to put them in a special quarantine area.
Can you believe this fool wrote this crap?
They want the money. They don’t give a $hit about whether emissions are reduced or not.
All the Usual Suspects present and feeling the heat.
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Former US Vice President Al Gore waits to speak and wipes his forehead as he speaks at a presentation on melting ice and snow at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 14, 2009. REUTERS/Bob Strong (DENMARK - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)
Can't wait to have these guys making decisions on how I can live my life.
yes! they want money. and they will spend that money doing the exact same things that have kept them poor and backwards for generations - tribal-based war and related genocide
give them nothing until they clean their own countries up
Yeah, sure. All over Africa cowherds and goatherds and camel riders and tribal dancers are just horrified that we aren’t doing more about the environment.
Actually, they don’t expect to get paid, either. It’s their corrupt rulers who want to get paid.
Maybe they’ll abandon cap n trade now, since it seems to only feed organized crime.
And of course disorganized crime (government sanctioned).
Hey! Somebody has to pay for the fancy mansions and Mercedes-Benzes around Lake Geneva. You expect those African dictators to WORK for a living? Racist dog.
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