Leaders, Activists Throwing in the Towel in Copenhagen

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[DadOfFive]

COPENHAGEN — Has Copenhagen collapsed?

That seems to be the growing sentiment inside the city's Bella Conference Center, where officials, environmentalists and even delegates to the international climate conference began streaming out Friday evening. What began with excitement and anticipation two weeks ago ended Friday night with disappointment and anger for thousands.

"This is a sad day for my country," said Mama Konate, chief delegate from the West African nation of Mali. "We have worked very hard to reach this agreement. And now it seems over. Without a deadline, I don't know if we will ever finish."

The conference, the largest of its kind, attracted scientists, activists and human rights supporters from every corner of the globe, who believe that without a climate accord limiting greenhouse gases, glaciers will melt, oceans will rise and the weather will go so warm it could wipe out 50 percent of the Earth's species. Until Friday, they saw Copenhagen as their last chance to stop it.

"You can scapegoat the process. That wasn't it. It was the unwillingness of people to move around big issues: China on verification, the U.S. on deeper emission cuts," said the head of an NGO that does relief work in Africa.

[Scotsman will be Free]

We’ll see.

[GraceG]

It’s all there! Black and white, clear as crystal! you get... NOTHING!!! You lose! GOOD DAY, SIR!

[a fool in paradise]

This will be reported by the media as a rousing success for Mr. Obama. He will be shown as working very hard to achieve an agreement.

Well, to be honest, the Emperor's New Clothes ARE something special.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Wonder if Al Gork knows how to commit hara-kiri......that’d be a nice touch.

[dragnet2]

"This is a sad day for my country," said Mama Konate, chief con-man from the West African nation of Yagivmo "We have worked very hard to shake down our friends in the U.S.

[tflabo]

Climate reparations.

Wealth distribution via the climate hoax...BRILLIANT!

[dep]

"This is a sad day for my country," said Mama Konate, chief delegate from the West African nation of Mali. "We have worked very hard to reach this agreement. And now it seems over. Without a deadline, I don't know if we will ever finish."

yup -- mama don't sake down no wesrterners; mama gonna have to go back and send some mo' email to say westerners done been left some money. in the meantime, mama gonna have to follow the immortan words of the reverend and cut the po'chops in pieces and make gravy and all the chulluns eat.

[calex59]

"This is a sad day for my country," said Mama Konate, chief delegate from the West African nation of Mali. "We have worked very hard to reach this agreement. And now it seems over. Without a deadline, I don't know if we will ever finish."

Translation: We had hoped to plunder the west for millions of dollars but it looks like that won't happen now!

[techno]

“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”

[VRWCTexan]

Fidel Castro on Friday dismissed US President Barack Obama’s trip to UN climate change talks in Copenhagen as a “show,”

[kralcmot]

well, that pretty much sums it up...

worth repeating in its entirety...hope you don’t mind if i do...

Hodar wrote:

“What? You mean a little thing like fraud, destroying RAW data, forging new data, ignoring substancial data points that do not support your theory - is somehow ‘bad science’?

Leave it to an idiot like Obama to be the last Rat to leave a ship that not only hit an icebert, but then got torpedoed, has a plague, has been set afire and is already completely submerged.

This was the best the Democrats had to offer? His only qualification for the office of POTUS is, has been and forever will be that he is half-black. And even at that level of qualification, is woefully inadequate among his peers.”

[GonzoII]

Good riddin’s!!

[dfwgator]

Fidel Castro on Friday dismissed US President Barack Obama’s trip to UN climate change talks in Copenhagen as a “show,”

[truthguy]

See my comment @14. I though it was funny and I’d get more feedback. Damn!

[Boardwalk]

I heard that the amount of carbon involved for all of these “leaders” to fly there in their private jets and limos is the equivalent of what 2000 Americans would have used in a year. Way to set an example!

[dfwgator]

I mean, I agree with Castro, and I’m rooting for Russia and China. I mean this truly is Bizarro World I’ve stumbled into.

[Purrcival]

At least the state-run media isn't blaming Copehagen's collapse on Bush!

Give them time. Obama will try to explain away his failure by saying that Bush has built up so much international bad will, that it is impossible for even the Anointed One to overcome. That seems to be his pattern. Remember that even after campaigning on the economy being "the worst since the Great Depression", he tried to explain away the failures of his "solutions" by saying that his administration had no idea how bad it was (i.e. "My predecessor blah blah blah").

[truthguy]

Hey, you are plagiarizing me!

Just kiddingj! Feel free to borrow or steal. I do it all the time!

[GraceG]

Better version of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ&feature=related

[tillacum]

nobama will show up wherever there’s a tv camera and a teleprompter. He’ll put them on ipod and give them to world leaders.