Posted on 12/19/2009 4:55:51 PM PST by Steelfish
Climate Summit Ends In Chaos And 'Toothless' Deal The Copenhagen climate summit ended in chaos and acrimony, forcing leading nations back to the drawing board in the search for a legally binding deal on emissions.
By Patrick Hennessy, Louise Gray in Copenhagen and Philip Sherwell in Washington 19 Dec 2009
After intense overnight wrangling, delegates from 192 countries on Saturday passed a motion simply "noting" a loose deal aimed at limiting temperature rises to less than 2C, which was agreed by the US and four other large-scale polluting nations. However, critics warned the "Copenhagen Accord", the result of two weeks of negotiations in the Danish capital, was full of holes and lacked a timetable – and environment agencies branded it toothless and a failure.
One African delegation likened the deal to the Holocaust.
An exhausted Gordon Brown, who arrived back in Britain at 3am on Saturday, admitted that much more had to be done to achieve a legally binding, properly funded agreement. A new United Nations-backed conference could be held in Mexico in the first half of 2010, several months earlier than planned, sources suggested.
As Britain and the US both tried to claim credit for reaching any form of agreement at Copenhagen, the blame game for the overall failure began. Ed Miliband, the Climate Change Secretary, said that "developing countries didn't want to sign up to legally binding targets".
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So basically nothing was decided except that the US taxpayer is now on the hook for $100 billion a year in new foreign aid.
Man might try a little humility once in a while cuz we look pretty miniscule compared to the universe.
We can never achieve greatness without humility.
Thats all most attendees were interested in.
So basically nothing was decided except that the US taxpayer is now on the hook for $100 billion a year in new foreign aid.
That $100 million makes a nice litttle litmus test for conservative candidates—”You for or agin’ it?” They better say they are Against and are ready to take action to repeal it — and the health care fraud too — or we take our vote elsewhere.
It ain’t enuff to just be pro-life anymore. Just asked Ben Nelson next time he runs.
The MSM is acting like this is some great “victory” for Obama!
This wasn’t just about the money. Their agenda was to also force us into a new type of Government-—a global one! It’s not over yet-—”their” meeting in Mexico around July 2010 to try to further this BS!
vaudine
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