EU APNewsAlert: Official: US reaches 'meaningful agreement' with China, India, South Africa

AP ^ | Dec 18 2009 | AP

[Presbyterian Reporter]

EU APNewsAlert The Associated Press - ‎4 minutes ago‎ COPENHAGEN — Official: US reaches 'meaningful agreement' with China, India, South Africa at climate summit.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Considering the sources: AP and some anonymous-but-”HighWhiteHouseOfficial”, I call BS.

In fact, it’s more like CHARLEY FOXTROT than mere BS.

Somebody’s doing some CYA, so just issue a statement to the flacks claiming “significance” and let them go build the headlines to fake the rest.

[dumpthelibs]

Just more fodder for the impeachment hearings down the road.

[OldGuard1]

$30B/year worldwide. That’s probably $10B from the US, $10B from Europe, and $10B from Japan and everyone else combined. $10B/year is about $33 from every man, woman, and child in this country per year. Adjust relative to your income.

[drierice]

“Meaningful” says nothing really - sounds like a pre-fab headline spin brought to you by NWO media.

I didn’t expect the headline to be “Failure In Copenhagen, Nations Call For Climategate Investigation!”

[Mouton]

The POS hung around begging anyone to agree....I think South Africa and two or three other countries agreed with our position. This is like the beginning of Basketball season where some Division 1 powerhouse schedules a game at home with some lowely division 2 school. It is billed as a win but when the seedings come at the end of the regular season, the win does not count toward a higher seeding. All show, no go or just what the empty suit is.

[Evil Slayer]

Glenn Beck will be all over this in a few minutes on Fox News.

[Dallas59]

reaches 'meaningful agreement'

Your sweet...I'll call you....

[circlecity]

So if I’ve got this right, the climate won’t get any better but we’ll be paying the third world $100 billion a year, in perpetuity, for the right to do business and go about our lives in the same world they exist in. It that about it?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ugh ...as in Ugly...

[KarlInOhio]

$100 billion? At the rate President Hingeback and gang are printing money, $100 billion won't be all that much.

[CedarDave]

The president promised that the United States would keep its pledge to reduce emissions — in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 — “no matter what happens in Copenhagen.”

Ain't going to happen unless the unless the entire country goes back to a subsistence lifestyle, which it could if Obama and cronies keeps driving us into the ground.

[LS]

From their point of view, this is absolutely brilliant. They KNOW temperatures are falling, and now they will take credit for it. Simply amazing.

[Lazamataz]

Official: US reaches 'meaningful agreement' with China, India, South Africa at climate summit.

United States: "We're not getting anywhere. Let's go home. This sucks."
China: "Yeah!"
India: "I most sincerely agree with yourself!"
South Africa: "Outta here... deuce deuce...."

MEANINGFUL AGREEMENT

[moose2004]

It takes 67 Senators to approve any climate treaty, that will never happen, just like Senator Jim Inhofe has said time and again. This “meaningful agreement” is a papered over crap sandwich with no verification mechanisms, no enforcement teeth and no mandates whatsoever, it’s pure political BS. China and India are laughing at Bambi’s desperation. Hell, if I was them I’d laugh too.

[sunmars]

So basically they agreed to disagree, so nada was achieved, just a face saving comment.

[exnavy]

“Climate peace in our time.”

[tobyhill]

Not legal binding, no signatures, no enforcement, no monitoring yet Obama has pledged $100 billion a Year to “poor” countries.

That pig ain't flying.

[bergmeid]

Every US citizen is to stop breathing RIGHT NOW.

[sunmars]

The United Nations climate change summit at Copenhagen drew to an unsatisfactory close last night, with negotiators only able to secure a non-binding agreement between the developed and developing nations. President Obama said that a “fundamental deadlock in perspectives” had overshadowed the negotiations. He said that a climate deal had been reached with India, China and South Afrrica, but admitted that it was not enough to fight global warming. He added: “We have much further to go.” In its statement, released at 10.30pm the White House described the agreement as meaningful. “No country is entirely satisfied with each element but this is a meaningful and historic step forward and a foundation from which to make further progress,” it said. Commenting on the draft Copenhagen Accord, the Greenpeace climate campaigner Joss Garman said tonight: “This latest draft is so weak as to be meaningless. It’s more like a G8 communiqué than the legally binding agreement we need. “It doesn’t even include a timeline to give it legal standing or an explicit temperature target. It’s hard to imagine our leaders will try to present this document to the world and keep a straight face.” Busted Obama, could'nt get the world to carry his water, i'm sorry what was that a year ago, we'll change the world.....well the world has given his answer and the first word begins with an F, the second word is You.

[tobyhill]

That whole “agreement” crap was nothing more than China and India throwing the dog a bone with no meat on it. They're probably laughing their asses off while watching Obama try to spin that one into his win.