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Hamstrung by Congress, Obama tries to clinch climate pact
AP News via Townhall.com ^ | November 28

Posted on 11/28/2015 6:05:57 PM PST by Kaslin

WASHINGTON (AP) P_resident Barack Obama is trying to negotiate a legacy-making climate change pact this coming week in Paris with one hand tied behind his back. Congress can't even agree whether global warming is real.

Scientists point to the global agreement, years in the making, as the last, best hope for averting the worst effects of global warming. Obama has spent months prodding other countries to make ambitious carbon-cutting pledges to the agreement, which he hopes will become the framework for countries to tackle the climate issue long beyond the end of his presidency in early 2017.

But Republicans have tried to undermine the president by sowing uncertainty about whether the U.S. will make good on its promises. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other GOP leaders have warned other countries not to trust any deal Obama may strike; other GOP allies are working to nullify Obama's emissions-cutting steps at home.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climateconference; co2; congress; energy; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; kentucky; liberallunacy; methane; mitchmcconnell; obama; opec; paris; petroleum; popefrancis; romancatholicism
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To: Kaslin

To Obama Global Warming is just a way to remove Freedom from peoples of the World


21 posted on 11/28/2015 6:19:04 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Kaslin

I’m waiting for a Republican to simply state that global warming is a scam designed to enrich the pockets of internationalists and domestic leftists while ordinary Americans will pay increased energy costs and jeopardize their standard of living.


22 posted on 11/28/2015 6:19:18 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: Kaslin
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23 posted on 11/28/2015 6:19:44 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: Kaslin

The bastard prince will reign.


24 posted on 11/28/2015 6:20:55 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: relictele

Will it be a signature achievement like the Iran deal?


25 posted on 11/28/2015 6:23:19 PM PST by GilGil
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To: Kaslin

Congress needs to put on their man pants and tell the Kenyan that they will NOT RECOGNIZE OR FUND another one of Obama’s so called “DEALS”. This will be a TREATY and therefore it must be approved by the Congress. The Constitution doesn’t recognize “DEALS” made by swindlers. “DEALS” are something Chicago thugs do.


26 posted on 11/28/2015 6:23:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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To: TTFlyer
the global agreement, years in the making, as the last, best hope for raping the American taxpayer before Zero leaves office
27 posted on 11/28/2015 6:27:22 PM PST by digger48
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To: Kaslin

Strung by Congress. Just wait till the creature meets WTP. There might be future lessons in stringing!! Climate change is no different than a woman going thru ‘the change’ Hot/Cold/Hot/Cold and a real witch to deal with. ValJar might be the professor to teach a few of those realities. The entire world is in flames! Heat is just what is expected you DC imbeciles.


28 posted on 11/28/2015 6:37:15 PM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Who actually runs the government? Serious question. Who? I honestly don't know. Are any of the people we get pamphlets from in the mail, asking us to vote for them, really who they say they are? Any? If so, how many? A few? A lot? Half? Who are they beholding to? How many are bought and paid for before they enter office? How much influence comes from within the US, and how much from outside? Is it really possible that ‘any child’ can grow up to become President of the US, or is it all about connections and money? I look at the Trump candidacy, and irrespective of whether or not you like him, the fact is that he is putting himself out there for the American public to evaluate, but the establishment of the Republican party is trying to circumvent this process. Is that the way the system now works? Do our opinions actually matter?

Obama appears to think, or maybe is certain, that he can do what he wants, irrespective of those checks and balances we thought were in place. What exactly is the truth?

29 posted on 11/28/2015 6:40:03 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Kaslin

I really detest the AP.


30 posted on 11/28/2015 6:50:43 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Kaslin

“Climate Change” is Lysenkoism for the 21st Century.


31 posted on 11/28/2015 6:51:36 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Kaslin
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow,and our planet began to heal.

Welcome King Barack "Canute" Obama the Great.....

...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...

....to increase it's magnetic field....

and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2020 / 25 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.

The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.

Good luck surviving with no electricity ...life becomes cold short and brutish

Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp

32 posted on 11/28/2015 6:53:23 PM PST by spokeshave (MDSM = Mentally Discombobulated Screaming Media)
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To: datura
At .04% of the atmosphere, CO2 is not the culprit.

Amen brother. Every time I have a discussion with one of the dimwitted global warming folks, I ask them if they know what % of the earth's atmosphere is CO2. Half don't know and the other half have given answers ranging from 5 to 21%. Then, I play the what-if game. What if it's 1%, do you think mankind can make a difference by "reducing your carbon footprint"? What if its .4%, would reducing the carbon footprint of humans have any impact?

Then when I ask what-if CO2 were only four one-hundredths of one percent, would reducing consumption of oil make any damn difference?

If they still seem interested, I hit them with 95% of the CO2 is in the form of water vapor. That usually blows their mind.

33 posted on 11/28/2015 6:57:59 PM PST by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: Kaslin
Wait. You mean OTrauma is going out and making deals without involving the Senate or Congress?

This motherless f*** must [deleted, lest I be visited by Secret Service]

34 posted on 11/28/2015 7:00:44 PM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: digger48
the global agreement, years in the making, as the last, best hope for raping the American taxpayer before Zero leaves office

He ain't goin' nowhere.

Sure, he'll leave the Presidency.

He's heading for the Secretary-General position of the UN, which he will remake into the King of the World.

Yes, yes, I know. A permanent member nation cannot have one of theirs be SecGen.

But a President used to need to be a US Citizen, and not a Kenyan, right?

35 posted on 11/28/2015 7:03:59 PM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: Go Gordon

Now just a second.

How do you get CO2 out of H2O?


36 posted on 11/28/2015 7:04:36 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Kaslin

Mark Steyn said something about our leaders trying to work on what might be the problems of the 22nd century while the real 21st century problems boil out of control.


37 posted on 11/28/2015 7:15:25 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
"Obama appears to think, or maybe is certain, that he can do what he wants, irrespective of those checks and balances we thought were in place.
What exactly is the truth?"

I believe the US Government is controlled by a consortium of very wealthy leftist individuals, wealthy powerful liberal business groups/companies (some of them overseas), liberal lawyers, and racial minority social pressure groups and the liberal American media. The only people who don't have a say in the US government are US citizens who happen to be white conservative and Christians and who happen to be the majority of people in the country.

38 posted on 11/28/2015 7:27:07 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Kaslin

Well, maybe with the death of the glowbull warmunist leader Maurice Strong today, the enviro faithful will be donning sackcloths and ashes and the Paris talks will be tied up with endless tributes over its remaining time and there will be no time left for negotiating anything http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/maurice-strong-dead-obit-un-1.3341829


39 posted on 11/28/2015 7:45:27 PM PST by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believe�.but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: Kaslin

The correct word is “hamstringed.”


40 posted on 11/28/2015 7:48:42 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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