It was two years in the making, reportedly $215 million in the planning, two full weeks of carbon-guzzling dog and pony show, with angry entitled Third World hairplug kings and Hollywoodies inside, and spoiled little weenie-greenies busting up the neighorbood outside.
And while the confabulators droned on and on about the “damages’ that third world countries were suffering from global warming, and warned of hot, melting disasters to come, God dumped snow on Denmark, put Great Britain under a blizzard warning and stormed the American eastern seaboard.
What did President Obama bring home from Copenhagen?
Zero, zip. There is a written “agreement” but it isn’t signed by anyone, it has no enforcement provisions but that doesn’t matter because it has no stated emissions goals.
The jibber-jabber language in the “deal” is barely decipherable. Here is the text.
The drippy-lib newspaper London Guardian has the headline:
“ Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure.”
NNIMMO BASSEY, Chair of the Friends of the Earth International:
“Copenhagen has been an abject failure. Justice has not been done. By delaying action, rich countries have condemned millions of the world’s poorest people to hunger, suffering and loss of life as climate change accelerates. The blame for this disastrous outcome is squarely on the developed nations.”
Green Peace, which sponsored many of the hundreds of protest events at the summit is miffed:
Climate science says we have only a few years left to halt the rise in emissions before making the kind of rapid reductions that would give us the best chance of avoiding dangerous climate change. We cannot change that science, so instead we will have to change the politics — and we may well have to change the politicians.
This is not over, people everywhere demanded a real deal before the Summit began and they are still demanding it. We can still save hundreds of millions of people from the devastation of a warming world, but it has just become a whole lot harder.
Some of the really “low” moments of big Friday in Copenhagen:
President Obama spoke so tersely in his speech about a certain country not allowing monitoring of emissions that the Chinese Premier left the chambers. They talked again later.
There was a bizarre ‘gate-crasher’ moment in which Mr. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton burst into a meeting of the Chinese, Indian and Brazilian leaders, according to senior administration officials. Mr. Obama said he did not want them negotiating in secret.
Venezuelan Commandante Hugo Chavez screeded about the evils of capitalism and said President Obama came to Copenhagen acting like, “an emperor.” Chavez even spat the same “devil” put-down he used for George Bush back in the day: Chavez sniffed the air and said it “smelled of sulfur” after Obama left the room.
The President, Secretary of State, House Speaker Pelosi and nearly a hundred members of Congress and staff split for the doors hours early when it was learned a huge blizzard was headed for Washington, D.C.
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Big, big, BIG zero–hallelujah!
Gregory Shirk commented on your link: “Give us money, were hungry, your rich,were gonna vote you out, the sky is falling, you’ll see…waaaawaaa. I’ll still be here five years from now looking to buy a new vette…with a heater.”
Keith sent you a message. (no subject) “Hi Jane and thanks for the add. I am conservative also, and look 4ward to hearing your ideas and opinions. Keith”
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