President Barack Obama spoke on the last day of climate talks at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The President called on all major economies to put forward decisive national actions that will reduce their emissions and turn the corner on climate change.
Excerpt From NYT’s ClimateWire, By DARREN SAMUELSOHN AND LISA FRIEDMAN
Obama Tries to Rally U.N. Climate Conference, but Deadlock Persists
Behind the scenes, dozens of presidents and prime ministers worked on a three-page document that they hope will become the lone outcome of the two-week negotiations here.
But the blame game is also under way with more than 115 heads of state in Copenhagen — many with years of work and their prestige on the line — struggling to bridge a divide between the world’s rich and poor nations. Several major industrialized countries pointed the finger at China for balking at demands to ensure their emission commitments would be open for public scrutiny.
A hush fell over the entire Bella Center during Obama’s eight-minute speech (pdf). He took on climate skeptics with his opening words and then made an all-out push for a collective agreement.
“While the reality of climate change is not in doubt, I have to be honest, as the world watches us today, I think our ability to take collective action is in doubt right now and it hangs in the balance,” he said. “I believe we can act boldly, and decisively, in the face of a common threat. That is why I have come here today. Not to talk, but to act.”
But with nearly 200 countries handing the negotiations over to their heads of state after two brutal weeks of gridlock, those talks have yet to bear any fruit.
China’s leader ignores compromise meeting
Obama and 19 other world leaders, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, met for about 90 minutes in the Bella Center trying to find a compromise.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao boycotted the meeting and instead sent his vice foreign minister, He Yafei. In remarks to reporters, Sarkozy noted the protocol breach and said an agreement remained out of reach because of Beijing’s resistance to emissions monitoring.
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cursadors – I like it! Okay, so you may not have meant that, but it’s still quite good.
Hehe – the BBC and all the other outlets reporting a deal were lying.
This whole thing IS falling apart!
Wen Jiabao’s actions speak far louder than any of Obama’s words.
REPLY: Yup it was funny, but fixed now. -Anthony
His speeches are pretty lame without a teleprompter, even though he is reading from a piece of paper. Just shows the man can’t think and talk at the same time. He clearly does not know what he is talking about, sounds unsure.
This is supposed to be the decisive speech, to close the deal. Public backlash will grow as regulations set in.
Good.
I was wondering where the $1 Trillion (100 billion/year x 10) they promised to developing countries was going to come from?
“We are the CLIMATE BORG, you WILL be assimilated, resistance is futile.
Because The Big Computer Model say so…”
Obama: “While the reality of climate change is not in doubt”
But the cause of it is in doubt. We don’t know if anthropogenic causes are driving our observed warming. You can’t just pass legislation over something we don’t even know is really happening! What good will you do to bankrupt the world over something that likely will not change anything?
AGW hangs by three tiny threads:
1. Tree ring proxies that attempt to hide the MWP and LIA
2. Temperature data that has to be manipulated to show greater warming
3. Computer models that are notoriously inaccurate
This must be the most moronic sentence ever spoken by someone other than Al Gore…
Obama to halt climate change! What next? Part the Red Sea? Turn water into wine?
Hey Barry! The climate is always changing. It has always been changing. It will always be changing. You can no more check climate change than you can check plate tectonics.
Go tilt at some freaking windmills keep your mitts out of our wallets!
“He took on climate skeptics with his opening words and then made an all-out push for a collective agreement.”
and he’s managed to alienate half the US population.
And he hits a high fly ball, curving left, and it’s gonna be a foul ball folks.
The crowd was on their feet, but now they’re suddenly quiet.
And here in Copenhagen, the count is 0 and 2, 2 strikes against the batter…
TL
What happened to the support of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India And China).
If-one-goes-the-other-go-agreement ?
“While the reality of climate change is not in doubt”…
I voted for him. I believed in him. But he drank the poison Koolaid on this one.
Any way to substantiate this:
http://www.desmogblog.com/breaking-leaked-final-draft-copenhagen-treaty-declaration
All “leaks” are created equal, but some “leaks” are more equal than others.
Some leaks are illegal hacks, other leaks are just wholesome leaks and harmless and cuddly and justified and legal and…It all boils down to where, when and who is doing the leak and what the purpose is, or is it?
Watch carefully everyone, witness what you see here at the end. This is the madness of large groups of people who have suspended disbelief, who have put aside their own critical thinking skills. As someone who was raised inside a cult, I know only too well what that’s like, and how earth-shattering it is to realize you were thinking BS for a very long time.
They’re going to be very dazed and confused when they finally realize how wrong they are, which might leave quite a vacuum of thought in the world.
I thought Obama’s speech was fair in the circumstances.
He can only go on what his scientific advisers tell him.
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Saw this on another blog… Thought it was cute.
From the Obama speech:
“[…] I have to be honest, […]”
(Gasp! LOL! Snort! LOL! Choke! LOL!)
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Anybody else besides me cleaning coffee off their computer monitor?
“While the reality of climate change is not in doubt,…”
Does anybody not know the climate changes? I really think these guys believe the climate is not supposed to change. The false premise is the climate is changing only because of human activity, or human activity is a major factor in climate change.
Only if you deny the Holocene Climate Optimum, the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Climate Optimum, the Little Ice Age, etc, does the climate today seem unnatural.
Telling. A passionless speech from a man who clearly has no belief in his rhetoric. I agree with Joe above – Obama *is* using a teleprompter but it’s clear he’s ‘out-to-lunch’ when it comes to having any emotional connection to the words he’s reading out… you can’t hide that.
Heh. “Cursaders.” Please don’t change it.
This speech is absurd. Even if human activity is warming our environment, the measures Obama outlines will have little or no impact.
I would think they pretended to reach an agreement just to save their a$$es and get out of there… do you imagine what the brainwashed environsheeples out there would do…
Obama says “I just want to say to this plenary session that we are running short on time.” And he is right.
The current descent into at least the equivalent of a Dalton (solar) Minimum gives the major governments only a few years, if not months, to perform the greatest tax grab in the history of the world.
Then, mark our words, the money will be seen to be important to feed the world’s starving and freezing billions that are impacted by Climate Change’s devastation of conventional world agriculture.
I see a teleprompter, but from the looks TOTUS (Teleprompter Of The United State) must be on vacation (somewhere where it is warmer).
This article in the Telegraph, regarding the leaked document from the UN, is a good one (found on Drudge):
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100020279/copenhagen-climate-summit-most-important-paper-in-the-world-is-a-glorified-un-press-release/
“But boy! Was this crass, or what? The apocalyptic document revealing that even if the Western leaders hand over all the climate Danegeld demanded of them, appropriately at the venue of Copenhagen, the earth will still fry on a 3C temperature rise is the latest transparent scare tactic to extort more cash from taxpayers. The danger of this ploy, of course, is that people might say “If we are going to be chargrilled anyway, what is the point of handing over billions – better to get some serious conspicuous consumption in before the ski slopes turn into saunas.””
HA! The White House spokespersons are now sounding resigned to defeat!!
“We’ve done what we can here,” a senior White House official in Copenhagen, Denmark, tells ABC News. “The Chinese are dug in on transparency and are refusing to let people know they’re living up to their end of the agreement.”
http://tinyurl.com/y8zuzep
This is so rich! The lying liars have lied themselves into a corner! The media, the governments, the activists *all* put on the full court press to convince everyone there would be a last minute deal – but it was all a lie! Now they have to face the shock, anger, and bitter disapointment that nothing that was promised is going to come about!
Oh, sweet, sweet justice, thine glory hath finally showeth!!