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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Ray (23:01:22)
I’d hope so: Even in a closed experiment, 1 million ppm of c02 in a jar doesn’t go much beyond 4C above 35C when exposed to a shortwave heat source, and most of that temperature rise is attributed to the property of gas in a closed chamber exerting more pressure than it normally would when heated by a shortwave source.
Of course, leave 1Mill ppm of c02 at normal temperature (where it absorbs heat) and it will be the same temp as normal air at 15C – even in a closed experiment
Again Richard North at:-
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/going-for-money.html
is absolutely bang on target about this heavily stage managed ‘deal’.
“The reality, however, was broken by the New York Times which “leaked” (no scruples here, unlike certain e-mails) a draft UN document which purported to show that even if all the highest promises on emission cuts were kept, the temperature would still go screaming up to 3°c above the baseline – whatever that is – risking, according to the warmists, “runaway global warming”.
“You have to work very hard to find out why the world leaders seem so unconcerned about this prospect, the game being given away by the Zimbabwe Herald whose journalists obviously haven’t sussed the importance of what they are writing.
“From this august journal, we learn that the negotiations were “rescued from the brink of collapse” when delegates agreed to compromise on the two contending positions by keeping the Kyoto Protocol and devising another agreement to encompass the United States and its allies who have refused to ratify Kyoto.
“This is nothing to do with the headline billions and all the rest. Nope, the deal is that the Kyoto Protocol is saved – which is what all the fuss was really about. That safeguards the carbon market and opens the way for it to expand to the $2-trillion level by the year 2020. Against that, even €100 billion is chump-change – you can buy countries with that sort of money.”
(See the link above for the full article).
And of course, it is another bit step towards their World Government goal.
Sarah Palin
Interesting take y’all Yanks have on this lady; with (it appears) a need to preface your good feelings for her with an apology and a disclaimer that, sheesh! you’ll never believe this of me, but sometimes I (gee, golly) feel she may even be real…
An Australian, I picked up on her when she moved that pipeline from dream toward reality. At that point she joined the greats for me, one of those who dreamed mighty dreams and then levered them onto the mainline. Kind of vision splendid which has always moved mankind towards the stars.
She may or may not ever make POTUS; but she has put a spirit into the dreams of mankind just when we needed it, and therefore I acknowledge I owe her… and no apology.
MARIAN WILKINSON ENVIRONMENT EDITOR COPENHAGEN: Kevin Rudd has warned leaders at the United Nations climate summit that they are on the verge of failing the children of the world and future generations if a compromise is not reached in the last day of the historic gathering.
This is from a few minutes ago.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this were a choreographed cliff-hanger.
Checking all other msm outlets here in OZ and all dead quiet on the Copenhagen front. Put it down to wayward exuberance by SMH. Relax everywhere!
“Patrick Davis (21:02:53) :
“Alvin (20:07:13) :
Chavez makes a speech about “evil capitalism” and volia, the socialists reach an agreement.”
It is rather ironic because KRudd747’s wife is (Or was, I think she had to give up her business interets when KRuddy became PM) a very wealthy, capitalist, businesswoman.”
She was forced to sell her Australian interests but used this money to expand her overseas businesses. She is rather wealthy.
The US already owe China $800 billion that they can’t pay back. They gotta be bluffing, for sure. Or they will have to borrow the money from China to compensate China, and China know that (or take it from their taxpayers). China is already concerned that it may never get it’s $800 billion back, so I doubt they will buy more American Bonds. We should know China of all nations will not cave in to US and UN demands for independent monitoring of CO2 emissions. I’d say China knows CO2 does not damage the environment, but they will take the money anyway as long as it comes from the US taxpayers (it’s one way of getting their money back). In summary no agreement will be made regardless of what the MSM reports. Copenhagen is an embarrassment. It certainly puts it on the map to be known as the City of Global Lies.
@ur momisugly Cromagnum (19:27:38) :
“Im waiting for the SNL spoof”
Yeah, a Climategate/Copenhagen SNL spoof. That should be good. Can’t wait to see it.
@ur momisugly Mike D. (22:28:44) :
“Obamahagen (TM)
also
Obamaflation (TM)”
Oh, those are good. Especially like the “Obamahagen.” I think this whole Copenhagen thing is going to go down in the books as a huge failure on all levels. Can start now by calling it Obamahagen along with Climategate, which still has much more life in it too.
Robbery of the willing fools. And no one in the world has proven himself as foolish as Obama. A league of his own.
NY Daily News:
U.S. to contribute to $100B climate fund to help developing countries: Hillary Clinton
By Soraya Roberts
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Thursday, December 17th 2009, 7:36 AM
Updated: Thursday, December 17th 2009, 10:57 AM
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/12/17/2009-12-17_us_will_contribute_to_100b_climate_fund_for_developing_countries_hillary_clinton.html#ixzz0a1WcZeIt
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-draft-accord-agreed-20091218-l1jo.html
I’ve found it. Why not front page? This morning, failure to agree was the greatest catastrophe ever faced by the human race (Tim Costello, ABC). Is it because it’s “draft agrreement”? ie, just a sham?
Paul Vaughan (20:20:05) :
“,,,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)…”
Capitalism stopped working after the 1929 great depression, when banks used their control of currency to destroy internal and external markets for their own benefit. Without stable currencies, capitalism will continue to fail and the only remedy is to get rid of banks and fiat money. Once trading with commodity money is resumed, capitalism will succeed once more.
davidc (23:25:22) : Wrote
“MARIAN WILKINSON ENVIRONMENT EDITOR COPENHAGEN: Kevin Rudd has warned leaders at the United Nations climate summit that they are on the verge of failing the children of the world and future generations if a compromise is not reached in the last day of the historic gathering.”
Kevin Rudd has warned leaders at the United Nations climate summit that You are on the verge of failing Your Own children and Your future generations Wealth if a compromise is not reached in the last day of the historic gathering.
There, fixed it for you Kevin.
Louis Hissink (22:32:54) :
It’s socialism folks, and once in power they will implement their police state
They’ll try for sure. By now I sure don’t have to read about the Fabians to know that. But at least here in the U.S.A. the “Socialists”, so to speak, needed to have their control of the Military and Police as their Enforcers already in place, imo, which was impossible no matter how many people brayed incessantly about their fear that Bush would become a Dictator – an idea which was produced either by completely unhinged paranoia, or lesser projection, or groupthink following an intentionally constructed meme by some Political Scientists.
In other words, I don’t think the “Socialists” are going to get the power they know they need simply by being elected, though this is what Marx apparently thought was possible. Maybe the Socialist “Political Scientists” also believe that. If so, it has made them weak. Because all I see from them here is the workings of a completely failing Socialist Fantasyland, which is strongly mobilizing people against it. And, especially the Military here, are just not going to get behind the Socialists.
But there’s going to be some kind of big fight going forward, and they are going to lose. I go day by day.
Re: J. Peden (22:35:48)
You’ve gotten a little carried away in extrapolating my words …but I understand that folks around here are alarmed today. Note to comedians: Throw the troops a bucket of ice.
America has been a rotten shell for nearly a century, I’m not sure why you are all so surprised.
Palin isnt the answer, the republicans are as much responsible for the degredation of America as the Democrats.
Does the 100 b come with S&H Green Stamps!
The BBC take is not so drastic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8419769.stm
.
Important concessions
Despite many expressions of concern about projections of climate change, finance has emerged as an issue more likely to make or break a deal than emission pledges, the BBC’s Richard Black reports from Copenhagen.
COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT
Delegates from 193 nations are in Copenhagen to negotiate an agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, in order to prevent dangerous climate change
Developing nations want rich nations to cut emissions by at least 25% by 2020 – rich nations are reluctant to go so far and want developing countries to curb emissions too
The US will not accept legally binding emissions cuts unless China does the same. China has been vague on allowing international scrutiny of its emission cuts
Ongoing disagreement on how funds to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be provided. Poor nations want direct aid, while the West favours schemes like carbon trading
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her administration was prepared to help establish funding of $100bn a year for developing countries if a deal emerged that met US requirements.
The key US demand is “transparency” from China, seen as a must if the US Senate is to pass legislation controlling emissions .
Two important points:
US will help in establishing funding of 100bn$.
“Transparency” from China means inspection, inspection means inspectors, and if China does not know this meas CIA entry it is not the two thousand year old imperium surviving in various guises against inroads from the west, even missionaries. I am curious how they will double talk their way out of this.
The very reason for the squabbling that preceded this deal is simply that no one had shown up with a big enough bribe. Obama is a very slick politician. He didn’t bring the money himself. He sent Hillary to find out if this bribe was big enough. God knows what she may have promised behind closed doors. Now he can just fly in and take the praise. Do either of them REALLY have the authority to offer this without congress? Questionable. Also, I must say, this act was psychotic. Truly psychotic.
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world, there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more”
Paul Vaughan, then I apologize for my extrapolation.
Of course it’s mind games, obama wasn’t going.. then he was.. then he might.
I think people should stop beating around the bushes when talking about the tyranny that is developing here. I know that this is meant to be a science blog, but what we’re witnessing here has nothing to do with science. Perhaps you should give those “NWO conspiracy nuts” your open mind for a little while, then you might realise that what they’ve been saying for years is happening right now.
[I hope I’m misreading Dilby, too.]