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.
I would like to thank all you guys who worked so hard to save your and my country from the brink of tyrannical disaster. You have no idea what a difference you made since Climategate first broke. You have no idea how many lurking bodies have seen this site, clinging to the best amateur scientific analysis on the planet, even though it is just your hobby. Hobbes cannot be overrated as they require a personal passion for the subject.
The information in massive volumes is now circulating all over cyberspace which is all over the planet. Give yourselves a pat on the back for a job well done. That job you did is worth far more than money can buy. You’ll have a good bit of a rest to recharge your batteries, I know I need a pretty decent break. Get back to pounding those keys when you feel good and ready again, always keep an open mind, and your mind active. Learning new things just feels good.
Thank You,
Michael
Y’know, this isn’t a bad result all things considered. I’m not against insurance policies. . .I just don’t want to pay unreasonable prices for them. This Term Insurance can be terminated before it gets too costly, if further research and observable facts seem to make that advisable.
Am I the only one cheering the fact that Obama could not “get er done”?!?!?!?!?!?!? By the way, I am a registered Democrat for hire dedicated to seeing that Sitting Eagle is NOT re-elected!
Carbonhoaxen…
Yes we can’t.
Son of a Pig and a Monkey (20:21:41) :
in the time of chimpanzees i was a monkey
I suppose the alarmists should be praying that we deniers are right!
Tom in Texas (20:39:33) :
“Obama brokers a climate deal, doesn’t satisfy all”
Just the skeptics.
Nice 🙂
From the Telegraph:
” ‘Most of the snow is falling in East Anglia, Essex and Kent – and will continue to do so,’ she said.”
East Anglia????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Chris
Norfolk (not East Anglia) VA, USA
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.
DO YOU REALY BELEVE THIS MONEY( EVERY CENT) WILL BE USED TO ADATPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE??.i For one dont i bet the the persons at the top get their cut.And the poor persons in the street see $nil .
Tilo Reber (20:45:49) :
Triple irony:
People there to complain about warming faint from exposure to the cold.
One of the most socialist nations of Europe fails terribly at organization.
An organiztion, the IPCC, that wishes to control the climate shows that it is incompetent to even run a meeting on the climate.
Indeed. The irony is so rich it has to be fattening.
As I mentioned previously, they agreed to disagree.
How can this ‘historic’ agreement be a first step? I thought Kyoto was the first step; Copenhagen was supposed to build on it. The next couple years should prove interesting, as they try to get something in place with which to replace Kyoto before it expires in 2012.
Wait!
That’s it!
The Mayans weren’t predicting the end of Earth or mankind. They were predicting the end of the Kyoto accord in 2012 long before there was a green, save the planet, movement.
Thank God.
I saw nothing posted at RC all day….but did see a tumblweed roll by….
Now they claim to be upgrading software and are down. Hmmmmm…….that’s certainly inconvenient.
What a great holiday present. Let’s DANCE!
Phew!
“The scary thought is, what will they now use to collect the trillions for the world global socialist experiment? The climate, (warming, or cooling, or holding fast), set aside, the demand for the trillions to prop up the worlds failing socialist nations, is never going to go away! ”
This is the real issue.
The problem is the dictators will stash the cash for themselves as the UN is even more corrupt than the US Government, and the little people will go on hurting as always.
Of course everyone knew that man caused warming was BS. the climate is much more complex than anyone has come close to modeling. Of course the data is basically useless as Anthony and others have shown.
All in all – COP15 – was a very costly flop. charade, dog&pony show.
Richard M (19:27:55) :
I would prefer to call him “deepstick”.
The irony continues…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8421879.stm
“Washington DC is preparing to be hit by what could be its worst winter storm since the capital was covered in 27in (68cm) of snow in 2003.”
Apparently Obama did not stay for the end of COP15 because of the cold snowy stormy weather situation expected in DC!!!!
You really have to laugh at these fools.
Mark.R (22:08:32) :
They never cared about feeding and saving the poor nations before… why would they care now?
Copenhagen ends in failure…
Nah, it was a great, great success. The skeptics side always wins.
“Al..baby”, when’s the debate?
It’s 2.30 am and dejection is palpable in the halls of Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, home to the last two week’s climate talks. Obama has left; there’s another draft deal being passed around; Gordon Brown says he’s happy; the G77 block of poor nations is crying bloody murder; delegates are leaving in droves, looking tired and depressed. The sense, generally, is that the last two years have been a waste of time.
If you listen really hard you can hear the lamentations of their women . . .
why to the true believers stay on the losing side?
And is Obama tired of losing all the time?
D. King (19:46:55)
It was King Cnut (or possibly Harthacnut) who was laughing at the sycophants.
Doug (21:36:02) :
Cheer, by all means. Just remember that we are upping our tab with them in order to pay for this. You have to admire the way China has played the situation, in the sense one would admire an opponent’s southpaw, getting the US to dig a deeper hole all the while committing to economic restrictions that limit the ways the debt can be paid back. Really think they are worried about getting paid back? I don’t. The damage done to the US Gov’s credibility if there are defaults on debt would curtail the ability to spend on many things, and then what? We all learn how to ask if you would like fries with that in Chinese?
Lost in summer, morning, winter, travel very far,
Lost in musing circumstances, that’s just where you are.
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar’s palace, morning glory, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.