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US will not commit to climate change aid for poor nations at UN summit
Guardian ^
| 9/20/2014
| Suzanne Goldenberg
Posted on 09/20/2014 6:57:35 PM PDT by Dallas59
Barack Obama will not be pledging any cash to a near-empty fund for poor countries at a United Nations summit on climate change next week, the UN special climate change envoy said on Friday.
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has challenged the 125 world leaders attending the 23 September summit to make bold pledges to the fund, intended to help poor countries cope with climate change.
The UN has been pressing rich countries to come up with pledges of between $10bn and $15bn.
We are putting a lot of pressure for them to do it at the summit on the 23rd, the UN envoy and former Irish president, Mary Robinson, told the Guardian on the sidelines of a US Agency for International Development meeting. But she added: I know the United States is not going to commit because Ive asked.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechangesummit; climateyimaty; money; obamaclimatechange; un
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posted on
09/20/2014 6:57:36 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
Me neither. Committing to whatever it is they want to do with the climate. Oddly enough though, drove the Ram Hemi yesterday and now they’re forecasting rain. Hmmmm. Coincidence? I don’t think so. LOLOLOLOL! :>}
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:00:01 PM PDT
by
rktman
("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
To: Dallas59
Just another wealth redistribution scheme.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:00:05 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
To: Dallas59
“Climate Change” ... The most obvious — and yet pervasive because of the complicit media constantly pushing it — scam in world history.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:01:23 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: Dallas59
“Climate change aid”? Are you kidding me? Just Say NO To Drugs!!!
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:01:26 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
To: Dallas59
Wait until after elections.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:02:14 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: Dallas59
It’s time to send Banki the Moon’s @$$ back to Korea. Preferably North Korea.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:02:46 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
To: Dallas59
Biggest scam since the Brooklyn bridge sales.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:10:53 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: rktman
I see Al Gore is one of the main lefty dignitaries leading the Climate March on New York to coincide with this meeting. It’s Christmas time for Al Gore and his enormous bank account.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:13:03 PM PDT
by
dowcaet
To: Dallas59
I guess “Barack Obama” has been knocked back by the fact that the Democrat Party is so freaked out that even they don’t want to be part of his program.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:16:45 PM PDT
by
livius
To: Dallas59
Actually, this is a fabulous idea and I wish I had thought of it sooner.
I’m going to set up a fund through Paypal. I will seek donations to it from any and all caring individuals; the money will be used to help me cope with Global Climate Change.
I’ll get back to you once I’ve worked out the details.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:22:30 PM PDT
by
marron
To: Dallas59
I don’t know why this makes me think of something else. If you are rally old like me, you’ll remember the old National Lampoon ad showing a gun to the head of a pet doggie. The ad demands that you subscribe “or the dog gets it”.
Maybe I could do something like that. I’ve got a dog. He’s not that cute, but maybe he’ll do.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:24:45 PM PDT
by
marron
To: Dallas59
Sell Al Gore's Gulfstream Jet and give them the proceeds.
A global climate change two-fer.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:25:07 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Iron Munro
Just another wealth redistribution scheme.That is what it's been about, and only about from day one. From another ice age, to global warming, to climate change, to the population bomb, it is ONLY about the money. F these MOFOs.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:31:14 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now.)
To: Dallas59
Hey dumb asses at UN: Make it $2 per capita and get China and India to pay up first then come calling. Until then...go pound sand. On second thought, take your false anthroprogenic global climate theory based on false and manipulated data and stick it where the solar input you ignore don't shine.
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posted on
09/20/2014 7:38:22 PM PDT
by
cashless
(Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
To: Mark17
Just another wealth redistribution scheme. To Algore's pocket.
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posted on
09/20/2014 8:00:59 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: JennysCool
the only hoax/fraud/scam BIGGER the Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled... when He Convinced the World He Didn't Exist, is that GloBULL Warming/Climate Change DOES!!!
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posted on
09/20/2014 8:09:49 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Dallas59
The UN has been pressing rich countries to come up with pledges of between $10bn and $15bn. For climate change? Sounds like a global version of cash for clunkers - another way to burn money. Maybe Ø' said no... but he feels otherwise.
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posted on
09/20/2014 8:25:28 PM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Just another wealth redistribution scheme. To Algore's pocket.
Yes, F that MOFO too.
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posted on
09/20/2014 9:24:00 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now.)
To: Dallas59
BUT, Obama will be more flexible after the election.
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posted on
09/20/2014 10:21:12 PM PDT
by
Gator113
( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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