Nopenhagen
The hippies, they are not happy.
John Lanchbery, Birdlife International: “It sounds very vague. There’s no next step, nothing to link through to how to get a final deal done.”
Heh heh.
Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club: “President Obama and the rest of the world paid a steep price here in Copenhagen because of obstructionism in the United States Senate.”
Say what?
Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth: “This is the United Nations and the nations here are not united on this secret backroom declaration. The US has lied to the world when they called it a deal and they lied to over a hundred countries when they said would listen to their needs. This toothless declaration, being spun by the US as an historic success, reflects contempt for the multilateral process and we expect more from our Nobel prize winning President.”
But he means well. And he’s got a fabulous crease in his pants.
From what I can glean, they’ve agreed that the earth shouldn’t be allowed to warm more than 2°C, but how they’re going to bully the planet into that unclear. There’s no set target, oversight or enforcement involved. It’s less a treaty than a serving suggestion.
I love this quote from Obama: “We are confident that we are moving in the direction of a significant accord.”
We’ve agreed to take the first steps toward talking about a framework for considering the implications of actually doing something.
Thank you, O Lord, for the incompetence of our enemies.
December 18, 2009 — 7:41 pm
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