Reuters Blog Archive » Obama honeymoon short-lived at U.N. climate talks

After one of the briefest honeymoons in history, developing nations at U.N. climate change talks in Poland are saying that President-elect Barack Obama’s goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions don’t go far enough.

Delegates from China and India told Reuters at the Dec. 1-12 talks that they welcomed Obama’s plan to cut emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 compared to less ambitious goals set by President George W. Bush. (Emissions are now about 14 percent above 1990 ).

But they say Obama isn’t going far enough. See story here.

Village Idiots - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Watching a news panel chatter last night about the certainty of a bailout for U.S. automakers under the new administration — in return for the government dictating the industry's business model with "green" mandates, forcing the Big Three to produce more cars on which they lose money — it struck me: I've heard of destroying the village to save it, but this is the first time we've been told we must save something in order to destroy it.