When the Guardian, that champion of everything “green” says it, you know it was a failure.
Excerpt:
The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement last night in Copenhagen, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations to come.
After eight draft texts and all-day talks between 115 world leaders, it was left to Barack Obama and Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, to broker a political agreement. The so-called Copenhagen accord “recognises” the scientific case for keeping temperature rises to no more than 2C but did not contain commitments to emissions reductions to achieve that goal.
American officials spun the deal as a “meaningful agreement”, but even Obama said: “This progress is not enough.”
“We have come a long way, but we have much further to go,” he added.
The deal was brokered between China, South Africa, India, Brazil and the US, but late last night it was still unclear whether it would be adopted by all 192 countries in the full plenary session.
The agreement aims to provide $30bn in funding for poor countries to adapt to climate change from next year to 2012, and $100bn a year after 2020.
But it disappointed African and other vulnerable countries who had been holding out for far deeper emission cuts to hold the global temperature rise to 1.5C this century. As widely expected, all references to 1.5C in previous drafts were removed at the last minute, but more surprisingly, the earlier 2050 goal of reducing global CO2 emissions by 80% was also dropped.
The agreement also set up a forestry deal which is hoped would significantly reduce deforestation in return for cash. It lacked the kind of independent verification of emission reductions by developing countries that the US and others demanded.
Obama hinted that China was to blame for the lack of a substantial deal. In a press conference he condemned the insistence of some countries to look backwards to previous environmental agreements. He said developing countries should be “getting out of that mindset, and moving towards the position where everybody recognises that we all need to move together”.
Read entire story at the Guardian here
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Now compare what the Guardian has written, to what Obama says:
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My summary of the Copenhagen Climate Conference is just a bit less wordy.
’tis the season…
The latest casualty of climategate. And by far the most important.
This is truly great news.
But it is just a first major step. It is not the beginning of the end of AGW madness. But it is the end of the beginning.
Now to finish helping AGW implode, and move on to a rational set of enviro and energy policies.
Wahahahey, now we just need to get rid of those who want to monitor our lives and have us live on a ration card.
Thank God for Global Partisanship!
Sorry, but Copenhagen was a complete success. In my view, the Chinese looked at how the data has been fudged, how the review process has been scuttled, and how the enviro commies wanted to shackle China with restrictions that would have seriously contained their booming economy. It would also have crippled the US economy had we gone along with it, and we’d never be able to pay off the huge debt owed the Chinese. Either way it went, it wasn’t good for the Chinese.
So they said “Nyet” after conferring with their Russian neighbors, who have energy-exportion ambitions of their own and suspicions about the “science” too. China deflected criticism by saying they would not give up their national sovereignty. Now we can see if the increase in CO2 will be able to offset the cooling trend we’re going through with this deep solar minimum. However, if this deep solar minim continues, I’m willing to bet that next year’s summit in Mexico City will be centered on how to tax the industrial nations for reparations caused by climate cooling. Face it, “climate change” cuts both ways for them, and short memories will only give them another reason to bilk the West.
They should be happy to have increased foodstuff production and additional greening of the planet caused by anthropogenic CO2. However, their objective was never to improve the environment or get off their lazy a$$es and work. That would just be too difficult. Their ulterior motive has failed, which becomes a success for all of us. And if it puts them back to work, it’s good for them, too.
If this report is close to correct, this is the best we could hope for and a damn site better than the 80/2050 nonsense as was earlier announced.
Alas, the greens and other climate shysters will keep repeating Kyoto and Copenhagen until the glaciers advance across North America. It sure as heck ain’t over, but this round was “won” or at least a draw. I’ve not see much media today, but from the whining of the Canadian Greens it seems our PM and our Environment minister did us well by laying low and not participating too much in in this circus.
But over all .. ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Anthony, it is sites like this that keep the pressure on; that bring good information to the surface and prevent suppression of the truth.
Good job sir. Thank you!
Wow…was it me or was Obama disappointed by the lack of progress on Climate Change or the lack of teleprompters?!?!?!
He sure looked mediocre…or depressed, can’t tell which. He definitely has programmed his brain to seek the usual teleprompter targets while he speaks.
I think we got off easy this round. Whew…
3rd party in 2010 please! No more lawyers OK? We need some Joe Schmoes…
Who cares about Copenhagen when there is the EPA!
I’d like to feel relieved, but I can’t escape the notion that these folks are a nightmare combination of Freddy Krueger, Michael from”Halloween”, Jason from “Friday the 13th”, and the “Terminator” all rolled into one. No matter how many times you think they’ve finally been stopped, they keep rising zombie like from the flaming ruins and resuming the chase. They’ve all probably booked their reservations for next years confab at whatever garden spot they have picked out and are angling to make sure that get a parking spot at the airport for their Gulfstream, and one of the armored limos, Mexico can be a dangerous place.
Furthermore, I should have said; Wen Jiabao. Not Hu Jintao. …
I’m off to bed. Comforted that absolutely nothing has changed except the debt.
Amen Halleluyah!
And of course, the question becomes… Now that the political leaders have failed, is the door towards honest skepticism of the accepted “conclusions” of the Polito-scientific establishment a little more open?
Can what we all know to be propaganda finally be exposed for the sack of lies that it is?
I think the return to rationality is a war being waged primarily here in the States. If cap and trade also fails here, and China continues to not play ball (THANK YOU CHINA, the free market of the world owes you a debt, figuratively and literally), the enviro-political-pseudo-science whackos will have nowhere left to turn but inward towards self-satisfaction and a “run-for-the-hills” self-preservation tactic. I predict we’ll get articles about true-believers selling all their posessions to build earthen homes in the Rockies with decades of food stores, much as we heard about before Y2K. It should be a very humorous year for the skeptics in 2010.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year everyone.
YES!!!
Caught between a ‘Weather is not Climate blizzard’ and a ClimateGate Road Hazard hard place.
The Devil was surely in the details, and Hugo claimed to smell sulphur.
The house of cards that manmade global warming “science” is now and always was is collapsing. The good guys have won one!!!
Deal condemned as”climate change skepticism in action.” Go skepticism!
Yes, an early Xmas gift, the left and the climate activists have lost bigtime, and we have reclaimed the upper ground now. Copenhagen was a joke frm the get go, and Palin was right: the skinny black dude should have boycotted the talks. Dummy!
It’s impossible to overstate just what an epic failure this is for transnational leftism; and right out in the open too, where nobody could miss it. These things don’t ordinarily happen with such suddenness and drama.
The first sentence in the article is absolutely right: If The Guardian is calling it a failure, then it must be a legendary crackup indeed. I think even the MsM is starting to smell blood in the water. They seem to be getting a little kick out of trashing Obama, the UN, and the Greenies. Perhaps the media is about to throw the political mandarins under the bus. Won’t that be something to see.
Good deal.
but…but…but Obama said it was a success
The Guardian calls it a failure..?
Careful..
Ever heard of animals pretending to be dead ?
According to Paul Watson over at PrisonPlanet.com
Obama and other world leaders have agreed to a “Global Transaction Tax”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/final-copenhagen-text-includes-global-transaction-tax.html
This means an average of $3000 in extra tax on each American family & non all of it will go to the UN.
Lord Monckton has also pointed this out, so I am convinced of its veracity.
Aqua Fyre
yes yes yes yes yes!!!!! See preventing a 2 C rise might be actually measureable rather than commit to what might be a CO2 prevention dead end.
symonsezwlky (18:56:24) :
Lucky there were no equivalents like the Goreacle around in the 1970’s. Another equivalent of the inconvenient truth movie for cooling plus carbon credits to prevent an ice age.
The only time I have cheered for China.
So, no one is going to do anything about the carbon, not that I want them to, but we taxpayers are going to fork over 10s of billions of dollars?
“Early Christmas present” ????
Ya think giving $30×10^9 of our tax dollars to 3rd world tin-pot dictators to squander is a Christmas present.
NO THANKS!