Obama and Hatoyama Pledge 'Success' at Copenhagen Climate [Hoax] Summit

TOKYO, Japan, November 13, 2009 (ENS) - Meeting for the first time on Japanese soil, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and President Barack Obama today committed their governments to "a new era in the global fight against climate change" by shifting to low-carbon growth and achieving "a successful outcome" at the UN climate conference next month.

Prime Minister Hatoyama said, "By 2050, we have set out this goal of an 80 percent reduction" in greenhouse gas emissions. "Both Japan and U.S. have agreed on this, and we want to make COP-15 a success, and we agreed to cooperate towards this end," he said...

[In case you missed it]: Prof Ian Plimer: tenets of a climate change sceptic - Telegraph

In an interview with ABN Newswire in June he said: "Carbon dioxide has an effect on the atmosphere and it has an effect for the first 50 parts per million and once it's done its job then it's finished and you can double it and quadruple it and it has no effect because we've seen that in the geological past, and we've seen it in times gone by when the carbon dioxide content was 100 times the current content. We didn't have runaway global warming, we actually had glaciation."

After spending binge, White House says it will focus on deficits - Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei - POLITICO.com

Democratic lobbyist Steve Elmendorf says the White House focus on deficit reduction could easily kill the cap-and-trade effort. “I think this means cap-and-trade has to go to the backburner,” he said.

Kevin Rudd: A shape-shifter in the Lodge

But he is a shape shifter, all the same.
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A public proponent of the "calm, methodical" approach to policy debate, who last Friday night capped off a week of such measured exhortations with a foaming, quasi-Biblical attack on climate change sceptics, whom he accused of conspiring to "destroy our children's future".

[Typical alarmism: Mix natural variability, measurement error, and maybe some fraud, then multiply by 100; result still unimpressive] | Reuters

Greenland's current rate, of 0.75 mm a year, would be 7.5 cms if continued for 100 years. "This is...much more that previous estimates of the Greenland contribution," van den Broeke said.

Gop wins: Effect on Copenhagen?

But I would bet the farm Angela Merkel is not fooled. Obama took a shellacking Tuesday night and, combined with the voters’ anger at continuing job losses, that can mean only one thing: loss of clout at home and abroad.

Copenhagen, it seems, will wind up without an American signature and this omission is likely to encourage other countries to hold back.

I imagine that even Germany, the most seriously committed global-warming firefighter in the world, may lose heart. What UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will say next is anybody’s guess, but the White House can hardly be sanguine about what American voters will say in the mid-term congressional elections next year.