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
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I’m certainly glad that the Maldives and Lesotho have more say in Canadian governance than my fellow citizens.
I must have missed out on the announcement that foreign thugocracies had been granted the right to override Canadian law.
What I find most appalling is not the stage-managed ‘last-minute’ result, involving the usual suspects – it is the call for, and waiting for Obama as the ‘great saviour’, who only has to come in and save the world.
Mind – this is not because of anything Obama has said/done: it is because this call, from ordinary people as well as leaders of the smaller countries, is very much reminiscent of the call, in Germany after WWI, for a ‘leader’ to deal with the mess and misery.
We all know how that worked out …
Well I am signing off now for the rest of Christmas season. I am deeply disappointed in the lack of rational capacity in the average citizen of the green movement. Mere Sheeple. Here is the key statement from the write up.
“On another critical issue, the draft calls for transforming the political accord and relevant UN texts into a binding treaty within six months.
If the declaration is accepted at the summit, negotiators will then transpose its objectives into the texts that have laboriously emerged over two years of negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).”
I have read the UNFCCC in total and find that only Mein Kamph or Das Kapital compared in terms of draconian ramifications. If they do ratify this in 6 months we are for sure doomed to slavery for an elite. But I have no faith in humanity to rise up and shake off its oppressors. I can only hope we do not allow this ratification.
Thank You WUWT for all your efforts. In the new year I’ll be back and will make a donation in the mean time. God bless you all for your efforts.
This world we live in…I hate it.
I really do.
Obamahagen (TM)
also
Obamaflation (TM)
So where is Hillary going to get $100B? Maybe she has a box of Credit Default Swaps to donate.
Just like Monckton called it. Surprise surprise.
It takes 67 votes in the senate to approve a treaty. Can you say, no thank you? Knew you could! Thankfully our forefathers recognized the value of gridlock. Even today in bailout America (it’s everyone else’s fault) $100billion is more than that to which our lopsided senate will agree.
The real tragedy is that no one has yet realised the deft hand of the Fabians behind this whole charade. It’s socialism folks, and once in power they will implement their police state as Christoper Monckton recently found to his personal cost when he was pushed and knocked out by some Danish police.
And most of you are still debating the science!
http://www.keynesatharvard.org explains how and who etc.
Paul Vaughn:
As for capitalism: If it works, no one has proven it to me yet – (i.e. I remain a skeptic – I’ve heard of the theory & the related computer fantasies, but I haven’t yet seen a shred of empirical evidence — please feel welcome to try to convince me otherwise, but I assure you words won’t do the job).
Compare South to North Korea. I’m not interested in mere words, either. So don’t bother.
[Actually I’m having a hard time believing I read what you said correctly: you’ve only seen “computer fantasies”?]
Hilary can pledge all she likes. It won’t get passed congress.
The Australian pledge will not get through Parliament either.
I totally agree tht man made GW is a scam, but some if you guys from the US need to realise your dream run has come to an end. You are the biggest consumers in the world and give nothing back to anyone else, your economy is failing due to your greed and ridiculous credit bills and the rest of the world is looking forward to your collapse. You need to stop trying to control other countries with wars and look after your own people.
They are making promises that a future administration would need to fulfill and which would require the US to borrow the money from the Chinese in order to fulfill it.
I’m not down with any agreement until they can prove there’ll be enough Victory Gin around to last a lifetime, and it must be predelivered to everyone on the Planet before I’ll assent. I’ve got principles!
Seriously, any “agreement” they get won’t do anything except aid in their own downfall.
Perhaps it is time for the UN to be dissolved. A sobering thought.
Scott Fox (21:31:35) :
“After reading several reports more closely Hillary said her offer relies on “transparency” which is a refernce to China’s willingness to “open up” it’s economy to western institutions, i.e. World Bank, with respect to the various carbon/green/sustainable programs.
China has said pretty clearly that they are only interested “co-operation that is not intrusive, that does not infringe on China’s sovereignty”
So this appears to be either:
a) A hollow promise.
b) A set-up to blame China when they reject “Transparency” (read: World Bank interference)
or c) All of the above.”
Reply:Good situation analysis Scott. China hold all the cards on this one. They are big enough to ignore any treaty, even if it has teeth, and will use the situation to their own benefit.
My vote also goes for ‘All the above’.
Don’t be surprised if Russia also pull a flanker too.
In the mean-time, here’s the latest weather at the airport:-
CHP Current Conditions
Snow
Light Snow, Low Drifting Snow
Temperature: 26° F (-3° C)
Visibility: 6 miles
Dew Point: 23° F (-5° C)
Wind: Wind direction is 50 degrees
Speed is 23 mph
Barometer Pressure: 30.00248″
Sky Conditions: Few clouds at 1400 feet.
Scattered layer at 2000 feet.
Broken layer at 4000 feet.
Last Updated: Thu Dec 17 20:50:00 PST 2009
God, I hope SMH is wrong. Sadly I’m sure it’s right. What. A. Waste. Of. Money.
How can any sane world leader vote to chuck money at idiot despots like Mugabe, Chavez et al?
Luckily here in NZ we went to Copenhagen waving our ETS piece of paper which is already law. Prime Minister John Key (John Quixote, methinks) will have some explaining to do.
It’s a perfect ploy by Hillary and Barry Obama to make this deal. It’ll fail in the Congress and they can blame the Republicans.
I would bet my house that the famous leaked memo about a rise of 3 degrees even with this accord is a fake leak… to put pressure on our idiots of so called leaders… who need leaders anyway.
“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.”
I remember P.J. O’Rourke wrote in one of his books that journalists loved to describe legislators/diplomats “hammering out” agreements, as if spending other people’s money was hard work.
So The U.S. will borrow 20 or 30 billion a year from China, and donate the money to a fund, administered by effete UN bureaucrats, which will be used to bribe corrupt African kleptocrats, or to build infrastructure projects for the Chinese in Africa (the Chinese are now building quite a commercial presence in Africa).
This sounds like a good deal for China. No wonder they support it.
I was interested to learn that the next UN climate party will be in Mexico. Note to self: corner the mexican market in salt and snow galoshes – they are undoubtedly due for a freak snow-storm.
Now that many of you have witnessed and observed first hand the madness we are dealing with, because you lived through it personally in the past month, you are ready to have a more open mind to more esoteric understandings.
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JT (22:46:31) :
They are making promises that a future administration would need to fulfill and which would require the US to borrow the money from the Chinese in order to fulfill it.
Correct me if I am misinterpreting, but isn’t China essentially getting free money out of this? Seems the US government is racking up debt so fast, the Chinese have started taking the same approach to ‘printing’ debentures the Fed has to ‘printing’ dollars.
No deal has been done and they are still light years from agreeing to binding targets. It’ll get caned. It’s a bit of damage control if anything. They need a posture to take to New Mexico and this will be it.
Fairfax Publications (owners of SMH) have been the most pro-AGW of Australian media outlets. Take this with a grain of salt.
Bear in mind that Australian AGW’s idea of a good sell is to show a letter from a concerned 6 year old girl. Google “Rudd Gracie” (Rudd being our Prime Minister; Gracie being the 6 year old)
Has this story been pulled? I can’t see it on SMH now.