A UN conference has rammed through a battle plan against climate change forged by US President Barack Obama and other top leaders, sidelining smaller states which lashed the deal as a betrayal. (AFP/File/Olivier Morin)
Posted on 12/19/2009 6:49:20 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House Saturday sought to rally support for the contentious deal brokered by President Barack Obama at UN climate talks by listing prominent Americans who back the plan against global warming, though opponents also spoke up.
A statement released by the White House included quotes from environmentalists, captains of industry and leading elected officials from Obama's Democratic Party praising the "breakthrough" that will "lay the foundation for international action in the years to come."
Michael Eckhart, head of the American Council on Renewable Energy, applauded Obama's "wisdom in achieving an agreement on the aspirational goal, limiting the outcome which we all care about, because this will stand to rule all else that comes in future negotiations."
Hannah Jones, a senior official at sports equipment and apparel giant Nike, praised the president's "sense of urgency and recognition that companies need certainty and a level playing field in order to move to a low-carbon economy which will unleash the next wave of jobs and prosperity."
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The 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry, said that Obama's "hands-on engagement broke through the bickering and sets the stage for a final deal and for Senate passage this spring of major legislation at home."
For Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Obama "has secured a critical agreement that includes an achievable mitigation target, transparency measures and a financing mechanism."
Others were not as charitable.
Bill McKibben, founder of the environmentalist group 350.org, said in a separate statement that the final declaration shows "that small and poor countries don't matter, that international civil society doesn't matter, and that serious limits on carbon don't matter."
Obama "has wrecked the UN and he's wrecked the possibility of a tough plan to control global warming," McKibben said in a statement.
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A UN conference has rammed through a battle plan against climate change forged by US President Barack Obama and other top leaders, sidelining smaller states which lashed the deal as a betrayal. (AFP/File/Olivier Morin)
A countdown clock is seen beside the podium during a night plenary meeting at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, early December 19, 2009. U.N. climate talks fell into crisis on Saturday after some developing nations angrily rejected a plan worked out by U.S. President Barack Obama and leaders of other major economies for fighting global warming. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (DENMARK - Tags: ENVIRONMENT POLITICS)
Obama at Bella : US President Barack Obama speaks during a plenary session at the Bella Center in Copenhagen on the 12th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference. (AFP/Jewel Samad)
Nopenhagen, or
Dopenhagen, Couldn’t Copenhagen
No Hopenchangen in Copenhagen
Why would somebody believe the vast treasonous conspiracy and their paid liars? There are crimes going unabated and the corporate media keeps dodging critical information and obvious conclusions.
Just listen to Alex Jones 12/19/09 take on Copenhagen and the Obomem speech and see who sounds like they represent reality and freedom.
Part1= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuHO9nJZWto
Part2= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlHXLXe_i1U
Part3= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrkex5Wg1A
We are up against the biggest scientific fraud ever and one that is meant to bring us under private global rule with the IMF as the new god, giver of life and death, food and famine.
Treason...Treason...Treason...Treason...Treason
It’s a shame that when Pelosi’s plane was returning to Washington, that it wasn’t routed through the Bermuda Triangle to avoid the D.C. snow storm..
Damned. Don’t tell me that they let Gibbs back into our country.
We had a chance to get rid of Goebbel’s in training and blew it (Apologies to Barney Frank).
Freaky little toad, isn’t he.
Jesse Ventura has 7 shows called “Conspiracy Theory” on TruTV. The third one was on global warming and aired last Wednesday. The government chose to be silent.
Global Warming - Conspiracy Theory - Jesse Ventura
Part1= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igg79pqfT08
Part2= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCR9tClX8I
Part3= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_3arkEld7I
Part4= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-GmtqgQJ0
The UN is incapable of action.
This is perhaps the one silver lining on these absurd shindigs, these elaborate dances to convince us to de-industrialize and seperate us from our wealth.
In the end, its ALL ABOUT MONEY. The ‘developing countries’ are upset that we didnt sign in blood to give money.
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