Posted on 12/18/2009 4:01:59 PM PST by SkyPilot
President Barack Obama said the United States, China and several other countries reached an "unprecedented breakthrough" Friday to curb greenhouse gas emissions - including a mechanism to verify compliance - after a frenzied day of diplomacy at the U.N. climate talks.
The agreement, which also includes the developing nations of India, South Africa and Brazil, requires each country to list the actions they will take to cut global warming pollution by specific amounts, a senior Obama administration official said. The official described the deal on the condition of anonymity because specific details had not been announced.
Under the agreement, the official said each country also will list the actions it will take to cut global warming pollution by specific amounts. The deal reiterates a goal that eight leading industrialized nations set earlier this year on long-term emission cuts and provides a mechanism to help poor countries prepare for climate change.
A European Union news conference to announce the EU reaction was postponed and an official said an overall agreement involving those nations not included in the deal that Obama announced was still being negotiated.
Obama suggested that Friday's agreement among the five countries would be adopted by the larger summit in its closing hours.
"I am leaving before the final vote," he said. "We feel confident we are moving in the direction of a final accord."
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LOL...an agreement to go home and think about it is an unprecedented success.
Only in a libtard word can this be spun this way.
Bammie = EPIC FAILURE, thank you Lord
the only thing that is unprecedented is the frequency with which obama uses the word “unprecedented”
Saturday Night Live couldn’t write funnier script than this.
It is unprecedented in that no one has ever tried to claim “progress” based on a 100% failure to accomplish anything.
So, if I read this right, everybody agreed to “something.” That something to be determined “later.”
Close?
An “unprecedented breakthrough” would have been if he missed his flight and ended up stranded in Copenhagen for a few years...you know, till 2012.
Its like the healthcare bill will cover 30 million people by forcing them to buy insurance or goto jail.. haha
Our POS POTUS has an "unprecedented breakthrough" every time he sits down on the toilet.
Yeah, but it’s FREE!!
They’re making a list
Checkin’ it twice
Gonna find out who’s warmin’ on ice
Global Warmin’s Coming to town!
Jennifer Loven (AP) co-wrote this story. She raced to get it into deadline.
Has anyone ever followed Jennifer Loven? She is perhaps the biased of the biased for Obama.
AP writer Jennifer Loven’s drool cup overfloweth By Michelle Malkin
I would not be surprised if Obama and his fat press secretary stood over her shoulder as she typed this tripe into her wireless laptop.
AF 1 is en-route now as we speak. The Libs can now sit back, and enjoy whatever it is they do aboard the aircraft. One thing is for sure, the behavior aboard the aircraft is sure different from the previous Administration.
Me thinks Copenhagen has not been very, very good to Obama in 2009. Maybe he should stop by there sometime in October of 2010..
“unprecedented breakthrough” is different from “unprecedented deal”.
Shouts, unprecented and then runs off? Must have dropped a deuce behind the podium....
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