for emerging powers to reduce them as a share of their economies;they will lie about the size of their economy
a transparency provision that will subject China, India and other fast-developing nations to international review of their self-reported progress on emissions limits;international review will be "allowed" but no one will do them; the "self-reported" progress will be accepted as fact.
and a commitment by wealthy nations to marshal $100 billion a year in climate aid for poor nations by 2020.by 2020? Whoever is president then will tell the poor nations to stuff it, that he/she never agreed to such a thing, congress never approved it....some excuse.
And it is the culmination of a full-court press by the Americans to woo China, including dispatching fully half of the U.S. negotiators to focus on the Chinese, and a sharp rejoinder from Obama in a speech this morning to the leaders gathered here.sharp rejoinder by Obama, heh. Man I got so scared I almost wet myself.
I was born at night, but not last night.
The president promised that the United States would keep its pledge to reduce emissions — in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 2020 again....always kick the ball down the road— “no matter what happens in Copenhagen.”
The key to the whole thing is that it’s NONBINDING, which means it’s not worth the paper it’s not written on.
The MSM is downplaying that aspect of it.
I agree to give you some money sometime in the future, but my agreement is non-binding, in other words I am not really promising you anything — so how much of my money do you think you will see from me?