Obama Reschedules Visit to Copenhagen Climate Change Summit

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After meeting with leaders from India, China and elsewhere, President Obama has decided to change the timing of his appearance at the United Nations climate conference to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark later this month.

The president was scheduled to appear at the climate change summit on Dec. 9, ahead of his trip to Oslo, Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. The summit takes place from Dec. 7 through Dec. 18. Mr. Obama will now attend the end of the conference.

"Based on his conversations with other leaders and the progress that has already been made to give momentum to negotiations, the President believes that continued U.S. leadership can be most productive through his participation at the end of the Copenhagen conference on December 18th rather than on December 9th," the White House said in a statement. "There are still outstanding issues that must be negotiated for an agreement to be reached, but this decision reflects the President's commitment to doing all that he can to pursue a positive outcome."

The United States will have representation in Copenhagen throughout the negotiating process by State Department negotiators and Cabinet officials, the White House said. The officials will highlight ways the U.S. has moved toward a clean energy economy. The House of Representatives passed a climate bill in the summer, but the legislation has stalled in the Senate.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration made significant clean energy investments in its stimulus package. The White House has also committed to cutting U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2010 to about 17 percent below 2005 levels, as well as cutting emissions by 83 percent by 2050.

Mr. Obama has also engaged in discussions with other world leaders the White House says is contributing to progress "towards a meaningful Copenhagen accord in which all countries pledge to take action against the global threat of climate change." China and India have, for the first time, set targets to reduce their own carbon levels, the White House points out.

This week, the president discussed the status of global climate negotiations with leaders from Australia, Germany, France and Britain. There appears to be an emerging consensus, the White House said, that nations involved in the Copenhagen accord should commit $10 billion a year by 2012 to help developing countries adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change.

[USAsince1680]

Just for the record, I found the article a little misleading in that what Obama said is we would be willing pay our "fair share" of the 10 billion yearly contribution to be made in total by the contributing countries. With 192 countries attending the summit know one knows what that "fair share" would be.

[iirishamerican]

we don't have 10 billion for this, 10 for that, 700 billion for whatever, especially some fake global warming non-sense. what the H are these fools doing except spending money that we don't have. We need jobs before we can pay for obamas spending spree, or do I need to be a scientist to figure that out? I know I don't need to be a scientist to know this is all about more money for and involvment by the goverment and how to get everybody to thank them for it and jump on the band wagon instead of coming unglued for taxing and taxing us to death. they were doing a good job of global warming/brain washing until those e-mails got out. good job to the hackers that wanted to know the truth. When this whole global warming thing started you used to see regular arguments for and agaist it, since the gov. got involved they have shut down any argument against it, kinda fishy don't ya think. The whole thing stinks and I don't believe it, have never believed it for a second. Yes, the earth changes all the time, thats why we have all theses lakes, rivers, dry lakes, deserts that used to be oceans, mountains, etc. Is it man made? No. Even the same crooked scientist tring to convince people of it will tell you the same kind of climate and earth changes have happened several times before humans were even on this planet, what caused those changes? I know, the dinosaurs must have had to many factories thats it. come on people wake-up when did common sense become such a rare thing?

[buildfences]

This is what all this is about:

"There appears to be an emerging consensus, the White House said, that nations involved in the Copenhagen accord should commit $10 billion a year by 2012 to help developing countries adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change."

Is anyone fed up with being serfs for the entire world?

It's bad enough they took away our jobs and gave them to foreigners, but now that we cannot even clothe ourselves, 'cause we don't make anything..they want all the tax dollars they can squeeze out of us, to give to foreign countries, for the scam of so called man-made global warming.

Did one foreign country ever give our business owners money for them to clean up their smoke stacks? NO, they did it with their own resources!

The elite are making us serfs to the entire world!

[91786]

Obama taking this conference seriously enough to waste a ton of money and time going is a slap in the face of every American that is unemployed.

[91786]

1.98 kg/m3, about 1.5 times that of air-- CO2. 99% of it stays within 1000 feet of the ground. What happened to the world's temps between 800AD and 1300AD? The climate change scientists can't tell you.

[91786]

1.98 kg/m3, about 1.5 times that of air-- CO2. 99% of it stays within 1000 feet of the ground. What happened to the world's temps between 800AD and 1300AD? The climate change scientists can't tell you.

[velma179]

by wdh3007 December 4, 2009 6:01 PM EST

Yeah, just like punctuation is a fraud.

[bubbazanetti]

If you are a conservative or liberal, ABC's silence on the coverup that they are participating in is amazing.

Decide for yourself. Below are links to zip files that contain the leaked emails, data and source code.

The BBC and others have confirmed that the emails are original. Top researchers have stepped down because of the emails, saying they were taken out of context. Read them.

If you are a programmer, check out a BAD code. The comment lines are unbelievable. Please take the time and read them.

The source code, which is mostly readable as ASCI text, is also there. It is damning.

Pass it on.

http://88.80.16.63/leak/climactic-research-unit-foi-leaked-data.zip

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[wdh3007]

Yeah sure he does and so does Gore they all should cancel look it's over this fraud has been exposed for what he is and what he tried to promote. Their is absolutely NO global warming nor has thier ever been when communism fell in europe the left needed something else to threaten people with. Now their plans have failed and they have been made Gore is still a fraud and so is everyone else who follows him and promtes this scam in order to get money!