Friday, December 18, 2009

Climate [swindle] deal falls short of expectations - - POLITICO.com
The climate deal reached between U.S, China and other great powers on Friday night is so vague, hastily hatched and non-binding President Obama isn’t even sure he’ll be required to sign it.
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"It’s a catastrophe," said Dan Joergensen, a member of the European delegation. "We’re so far away from the criteria that was set up in order to call it a success, and those weren’t really that ambitious to start with."
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"Squarely the blame is on President Obama. When you look very carefully and dig into what happened, you find that there is no difference whatsoever between President Obama and President Bush, except one of them tells it as it is," said Lumumba Di-Aping, the chief negotiator of the G77 bloc of developing countries, in an interview with POLITICO,
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Planet-saving president announces, um, non-binding working agreement
It’s too bad that He Is Who Is will take the brunt of international criticism for the conference’s failure instead of the Chinese, but messianism is a double-edged sword, isn’t it?
Relax America, the Dangers of Copenhagen Have Quelled
Copenhagen was a bust. It produced nothing but blown expenses for this absolutely unnecessary blunder of proponents of climate change which at one time was even more ridiculously called “Global Warming.”
The Thin Green Line : Greens call Obama's deal a 'sham'
A Friends of the Earth statement reads, in part:

"Climate negotiations in Copenhagen have yielded a sham agreement with no real requirements for any countries. This is not a strong deal or a just one — it isn't even a real one. It's just repackaging old positions and pretending they're new. The actions it suggests for the rich countries that caused the climate crisis are extraordinarily inadequate. This is a disastrous outcome for people around the world who face increasingly dire impacts from a destabilizing climate."

Bill McKibben of 350.org responded:

"This is a declaration that small and poor countries don't matter, that international civil society doesn't matter, and that serious limits on carbon don't matter. The president has wrecked the UN and he's wrecked the possibility of a tough plan to control global warming."
Al's Journal : Denying the Climate Crisis is Bad Political Strategy

Twitter / Mark Knoller: Obama just noted that the ...
Obama just noted that the Kyoto Treaty was binding, and its commitments were not delivered on anyway.

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