Just in time for Obama to announce it, and it only cost the USA 100 billion dollars. Thanks Hillary.
UPDATE: Statistician William Briggs points out in an email to me that he mentioned in an essay here that Lord Monckton had predicted this sort of outcome a month ago:
The forces of darkness will realize that some deal is better than no deal. Lord Monckton, on a guest appearance on the Glenn Beck program a month ago, had it right. He predicted the early stalemate, but said it would end at the last possible minute, after an all-hours marathon session:
From which the bureaucrats would emerge, their ties over their heads, where they will announce, “We’ve done it. We’ve come to an agreement.”
Leaders and ministers from 28 countries including Australia have outlined a draft accord to fight global warming.
The details of the draft are not known yet but the move came hours before some 130 world leaders were set to convene in the dying hours of the climate summit at Copenhagen.
Representatives from key blocs, covering both rich and developing countries, embarked on late-night negotiations in a desperate bid to hammer out a draft climate change agreement.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was also participating in the talks, which continued into this morning.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Brazilian President Inacio Lula da Silva were all seen as the talks got underway shortly after 11pm in Copenhagen.
Among industrialised countries, the participants were Norway, Russia, Spain, Britain, the US, Denmark, Australia, Germany, France, Sweden and Japan.
Representing small island states were the Maldives and Grenada, with Sudan, Algeria, Ethiopia and Lesotho from Africa. Sudan is also the leader of the G77 group of 130 developed countries, Algeria heads the Africa Group, and Lesotho leads the bloc of Least Developed Countries.
Major emerging present economies included China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico. Besides Brazil, other countries in which deforestation is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions include Colombia and Indonesia.
There are two transnational groupings included: the European Commission and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
More than 130 heads of state and government will convene today for the final day of the climate summit talks.
AFP
h/t to WUWT reader Patrick Davis
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Lord help us all.
Glad to see that the Canadian government was not there…
In any case, looks like lots of those people will have to look for a new job in the years to come… TRAITORS! They are the real science-deniers.
Perhaps it was inevitable. The lure of tax revenue – free money for nothing – is simply too much for our governments to resist.
Whew! The planet will be fine now. Right?
Where is Obama going to get the 100 billion per year? Us? No way. I’ll never contribute a nickel for this piece of work.
Of what value is an agreement that won’t be honored anymore than the 1st Kyoto agreement was. This is such a farce.
The U.S Senate hasn’t approved it. It means nothing to America.
well then, here come the lawsuits
But where is she going to get the $100 billion?
$100B? Peanuts. We’re into AIG for more than that!
Easy to spend 100billion/year of other peoples money based on falsified data from CRU and GISS. This is a historical event.
You have to feel sympathy for the poor fools. They’ve got to conclude some sort of face-saving “deal,” regardless of how meaningless it is, or how unratifiable it is when they tele-transport back to the real world. They have to salvage something from this shambles to try and keep the momentum rolling to the next jolly shindig in Mexico.
Well, I told you so… It’s “too big to fail”. To me it makes no difference. Whatever they have come up with will be just as successful as Kyoto was. (Natch!)
I won’t bother turning on the CBC (Canadian Broadcorping Castration) tonight. They will be celebrating having saved the world. Twits.
Well, Obama has already bankrupted his once great nation. What’s a few billion more of bad debt?
Perhaps a ‘Russian Hacker’ will join forces with Brad Pitt (aka ‘Bid Pratt’) to render this fiasco moot. Stranger things have happened…
3rd party anyone? 2010, mark your calendars please…and I am begging.
I was thinking the other day how lawyers have really screwed up pretty much anything insured (healthcare, etc), and then it dawned on me…where do lawyers go when they grow up?
It is hard to beleive that our “leaders” would submit to such utter rubbish. I hope that the fact that Canada did not get mentioned in the above report was not an error of ommission. As I would certainly like our true north to remain free. Our prime minister certainly would feel the political backlash from the western prvinces in Canada and possibly the sudden and overwhelming rise of western separatism again if he was to sign any agreement giving away our right to autonomy. We (in overwhelming majority numbers) prefer a made at home solution to providing clean energy solutions. If the need is indeed at hand
I worry about state of the world given this news.
Riel Diel
The true north strong and hopefully still free
The US is in hock up to its eyeballs. The US does not actually have 100 B to give to the third world or anyone else.
$100 billion/year is small compared to projected new revenues of $300 billion/year on Obama’s carbon taxes (from carbon cap and trade legislation) alone, on top of existing federal environmental taxes, AND on top of existing local governments (state, county, city) environmental and carbon taxes. Not included there are taxes from carbon tariffs in international trade, taxes from carbon cap and trade among corporations, etc. There is BIG money in carbon rent-seeking and ecological central planning.
I would hope that H.Clinton will renounce her US citensenship, she does not represent me. period
photon without a Higgs (19:04:37) :
The U.S Senate hasn’t approved it. It means nothing to America.
You say that as if you are serious. The current collection of criminals, ivory tower idiots, influence peddlers and associated idiots in charge of your country, all overseen by the lying piece of garbage obamidiot have shown no regard for the law thus far, and you expect this to change? Dream on.
So, the western democracies, in an effort to save face in the crumbling “science” of human caused global warming, will agree to give the likes of Mugabe millions of dollars to get some sort of accord signed.
Wonder which personal swiss account this will land in.
2 words for these “World Leaders” (including Obama): PACK SAND!
So who is surprised?
This was totally in the cards… they will all looks like heroes on their return.
SMH is notoriously unreliable these days and this deal could just be “wishful” thinking on the part of green minded journalists. I’ll wait and see what actually emerges. If a deal is struck I suspect it will be short lived.