U.S. booed at climate conference (Barf Alert)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | December 17, 2007 | Joseph Coleman, Michael Casey, Chris Brummitt and Zakki Hakim

[SkyPilot]

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Last month, the Peoples Public of China became the world’s number one largest producer of “greenhouse gases”.

Our own role in generating these gases is falling. Less every year.

China’s is growing rapidly.

China should no more get a waiver from the most stringent enforcement of every “global warming” restriction, than should for example ... India.

Anything else, is simply yet another scheme to hobble the USA.

[newnhdad]

If they want to leadership, maybe we should lead them to Cuba or Venezuela? I’ll be one of the millions lined up to watch the UN pack up and move.

[sono]

Glenn Reynolds
THE A.P. GETS IT WRONG ON KYOTO AGAIN:
"The U.S. is the only major industrial nation to reject Kyoto. President Bush contended the emissions cuts would harm the U.S. economy, and should have been imposed on China, India and other fast-growing poorer economies."

We've been over this whole thing before, and more than once: "On July 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized (although it had been fully negotiated, and a penultimate draft was finished), the U.S. Senate unanimously passed by a 95–0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98),[40] which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States". On November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Both Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations.[41] The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification."

You have to wonder, though, why people bother to listen to the Associated Press when it can't get basic bits of recent history right.

[fweingart]

If only we had a gonadic president our atendees would snap their attache cases shut and storm out of the meeting place!

A gonadic president would do all in his power (along with his vice-president) to mount the bully pulpit that comes with the job and announce his intent to pull our nation out of the cesspool known as the UN and commence drilling for oil in the so-called 'pristine wildnerss'. He'd flush them out of Flushing Meadow, he'd recall our Ambassador to unfriendly nations, (practically all of them) he'd shut down the border, he'd recall our ambassador to disgraceful Mexico and place a moratorium on ALL immigration to the United States until all those illegals here are sorted out and kicked back across the border from whence they came

That is, of course, if a gonadic president sat in the oval orifice today!

Not to fear, Empress Hitlery stands ready to take charge and make our lives even more miserable, and if not her, then Osama bin Bama will build a mosque on every street corner even if he has to remove the gas station currently occupying those corners.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Hans Verolme, World Wildlife Fund climate campaigner, offered a different interpretation. ''We have learned a historical lesson: if you expose to the world the dealings of the United States, they will ultimately back down,'' he said.

Which is why next time we need to send John Bolton as our delegate, so he can tell them to buzz off.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Great Wealth Transfer Scam of the 21st Century.

[Balding_Eagle]

''This is the beginning, not the end,'' U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Dammit!

They PROMISED US before the conference began that this was the LAST CHANCE! to stop global warming. This should be the end of it.

It's too late now.

[four more in O 4]

Sooooo.... Their idea of leadership is asking US to lead??

[pabianice]

[dfwgator]

The UN should follow the League of Nations on the ash heap of history.

[Maceman]

''But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way.''

If only. I agree we should "get our of the way." We should start by ordering the UN to leave our shores within 6 months, resigning from the Security Council and the General Assembly, and stopping all funding.

[steelyourfaith]

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