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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From the “Lord Monckton barred from Copenhagen conference – pushed to the ground by security” thread where I posted the link to the article, the content has changed slighty.
This was some of the content as posted by Jerome:
“JER0ME (18:49:03) :
Patrick Davis (18:42:45) :
The madness is now official:
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-draft-deal-agreed-20091218-l1jo.html
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.”
It’s now a bit different.
Thanks Anthony.
i was browsing the Harry_Read_me.txt …. had a [snip] kinda moment:
“….Had to briefly divert to trick makegridsauto into thinking it was in the middle of a full 1901-2006 update, to get CLD NetCDF files produced for the whole period to June ’06. Kept some important users in Bristol happy.
So, back to VAP. Tried dividing the incoming TMP 7 DTR binaries by 1000! Still no joy. Then had the bright idea of imposing a threshold on the 3.00 vap in the Matlab program. The result was that quite a lot of data was lost from 3.00, but what remained was a very good match for the 2.10 data (on which the thresholds were based).
I think I’ve got it! Hey – I might be home by 11. I got quick_interp_tdm2 to dump a min/max for the synthetic grids. Guess what? Our old friend 32767 is here again, otherwise known as big-endian trauma. And sure enough, the 0.5 and 2.5 binary normals (which I inherited, I’ve never produced them), both need to be opened for reading with:
openr,lun,fname,/swap_if_big_endian
..so I added that as an argument to rdbin, and used it wherever rdbin is called to open these normals……..”
/huh?
>”Kept some important users in Bristol happy.” Who is in Bristol?
>”big-endian trauma” sounds like a painful climate, or a native american injury?
>”which I inherited, I’ve never produced them” (was he channeling Obama?)
>”The result was that quite a lot of data was lost from 3.00, but what remained was a very good match for the 2.10 data (on which the thresholds were based).” Is this how they ‘lost’ original data?
The number is an annual one. The US typically pays around 20% of these things so the budget for communist ‘developing’ nations is just a bit more than NASA.
This was a foregone conclusion before COP15 opened its doors.
The days preceding today was nothing more than showmanship – in my opinion the arrangement was already agreed upon before the conference – years months and days of climate propaganda in the face of reality and basic common sense is plenty evidence of this collusion.
Im waiting for the SNL spoof
Yes, the US is up to it’s eyeballs in debt.
And this went down exactly as Monckton said it would.
Unfortunately, so it appears, did Monckton.
Exactly where is Hillary going to find $100B to do this. I don’t think that she can encumber the US — she doesn’t have the required authorization.
Just to clarify, the story (disregarding the headline) states that the agreement is in draft form and was hammered out last night to have a formal document at todays final meeting so that there can be an actual physical “this is what we propose”.
In other words, what this is, is the finalisation of a draft agreement with intent to lay it out to the rest of the delegation and try to get agreement.
Until the finalisation of todays talks, there isn’t yet an agreement, just progress towards one.
This in effect is a rebellion of the rulers against the ruled.
as I said on the other thread (sorry to repost) it’s exactly as Monckton said it would be!
This conference has some bad karma.
Jim,
We’ll borrow this money from the Chinese and pay this money…to the Chinese.
I see this in large part as yet another bailout, this time for well-connected millionaires and corporations who have invested too much in green technology. Unfortunately much of the money will probably be spent on mansions and military weapons for corrupt third world governments. I don’t mind helping the poor in these countries as long as it’s done through reputable organizations, but I do mind having my taxes used to enrich crooks and dictators, and I really, really, really mind the whole fraudulent nature of this “crisis”.
A little historical background for the last time the UN tried this:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA542LawoftheSeaTreaty.html
Quote of the hour… “When the energy industry and environmentalists agree on an issue, one of the two likely doesn’t fully comprehend the implications…
…and it’s probably not the environmentalists.”
Actually, that title could be taken two ways…… 😉
it’s just a draft isn’t it?
till next meeting in mexico?
fight on!
expectations were to high to fly away with nothing.
$100 billion/year is $333/person*year.
But, if only 1/3 people are actually paying for it (the working class) then that is $1000/year*person.
Add on top of that the $300 billion/year on Obama’s carbon tax.
Thats an aditional $3000/year per person.
Wow $4000/year. wow.
Is it $100B/year or $100B total? Based on some of the previous reports, I’d suspect the latter. Also, apparently this is just a draft deal, with nothing binding at this point. Regardless, why anyone would agree to give $100B to other countries for no intelligent reason is beyond me.
Just what the US economy needs… ANOTHER 100 Billion steel-toed kick in the balls.
Just think, we could have had her for PRESIDENT, YAY! Where do you think the “Stimulus Package” would have been spent??
This is Crap.
Doc
This was inevitable. There was simply too much momentum regardless of questionable science. Heaven’s, the very planet is at stake! As with everything the devil’s in the details….
Truly a sad day in history, the day Politicians and Media sold us out.
Jim (19:14:06) :
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.
++++
Don’t be silly. Of course we have $100B. What it will be *worth* by the time we give it is an entirely different question. . .
This is all about the thugs in developed countries stealing from us and transferring money to their thug buddies in 3rd world countries. That way, when we finally get to torches and pitchforks time, they’ll have a place to go and a nice stash set aside for their retirements in exile.
Crank up the printing presses boys. We need another $100 billion.
The powers that be never deviate from the script. Monckton told us this would happen. Time for another bombshell from the Russians. I can’t wait for the republican delegation and Senator Inhofe to weigh in and p@ss on their paraid.