Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Obama pledges US lead on climate change
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 4/5/09 | Leigh Thomas

Posted on 04/05/2009 5:39:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

PRAGUE (AFP) – President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States was ready to take the lead in tackling climate change, as EU leaders pushed him to follow their ambitious targets to combat global warming.

"To protect our planet, now is the time to change the way that we use energy," Obama told a crowd gathered at Prague Castle for his only public speech during his maiden tour of Europe.

"Together we must confront climate change by ending the world's dependency on fossil fuels by tapping the power from the sources of energy like the wind and the sun and calling upon all nations to do their part.

"And I pledge to you that in this global effort the US is now ready to lead."

Obama's promise of a leading US role on climate change broke with his predecessor George W. Bush's stance, which had long frustrated Washington's European Union partners.

He was speaking ahead of his first EU-US summit, with European leaders eager for signs Washington is finally willing to commit to major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

European leaders were often exasperated by his predecessor's failure to commit the United States to climate change targets, especially because Europe has set itself ambitious goals.

Their frustration has been compounded by the fact that the United States is the world's biggest polluter, leaving the impression in Europe that EU countries are doing all the heavy-lifting in the fight against climate change.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoenvironment; bhoeu; bhovisit; climatechange; czechrepublic; euussummit; fraud; lead; miracleman; obama; pledges; snakeoilnutcase
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-54 last
To: NormsRevenge

Climate Change.I get up some mornings,it rains,others the sun shines,cold one day,hot the next.What’s the big deal?


41 posted on 04/05/2009 6:59:08 PM PDT by Uncle Meat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: y6162
I bet Obamugabe hasn’t spent five days in the oval office since inauguration. Our Dear Leader has been on a continuous rock tour.

This is because narcissists have an insatiable need for adoration. He can't get that inside the White House, except from the press corps.

42 posted on 04/05/2009 7:05:58 PM PDT by CASchack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

This is the worst crock ever. It really sickens me when GOP politicians get on board with this.


43 posted on 04/05/2009 8:00:08 PM PDT by napscoordinator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

Frigging unicorns.


44 posted on 04/05/2009 8:39:43 PM PDT by upchuck (I'm glad I'm old. Thus I can remember when America was a decent, moral, God fearing country.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: M Kehoe

BUMP!


45 posted on 04/05/2009 8:41:54 PM PDT by upchuck (I'm glad I'm old. Thus I can remember when America was a decent, moral, God fearing country.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge
the fact that the United States is the world's biggest polluter

PROVE IT, you lying sack of macaca! Let's see the figures for ALL forms of "pollution"; not just cherry picked and massaged individual pollutants.

We have scrubbers of one type or another on nearly all of our stacks.

We've had catalytic converters on our vehicles, as well as both older & newer mandated measures, to clean our auto emissions for from years to decades.

We have 1/4 the population of China, but ALL of our even smallest towns have sewerage/waste-water treatment plants, with secondary & tertiary treatment at the larger cities.

Newer, cleaner controls on what is left of mining & smelting.

Our farming pollution control practices are among the best.

On, and on, and on.

Overall, (and I can say it with confidence, having grown up in the 1950s) our country is cleaner aired, and cleaner watered, especially on a percapita basis, than just about any place else that is worth living; and certainly than it was 50 years ago.

Don't get me started on that other outdated...if ever true...canard about only 5% of the world's population hogging 25% of the world's energy.

46 posted on 04/05/2009 9:04:11 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: businessprofessor
This CO2 reduction nonsense provides a strong opening for conservatives.

Good idea.

Maybe we can get Mark Sanford working on this.

Oh, wait...

47 posted on 04/05/2009 9:10:19 PM PDT by THX 1138
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: Hugin
where exactly are you going to put the 160,000 square miles of solar panels it would take to replace coal plants? On the moon?

That is an extrememly fragile, unique, and pristine environement, that must be protected from development. And the untested but potentially dangerous technology involved in beaming the energy back to earth....

48 posted on 04/05/2009 9:16:25 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

Hey Obama, if you really believe CO2 is a pollutant, show us the way and STOP exhaling. SS, this is not a threat. It is just an In Your Face observation of the crap politicians are forcing down the tax payers’ throats.


49 posted on 04/05/2009 9:29:12 PM PDT by Chgogal (Don't look at me, Comrade. You elected him, our very own President Mugabe!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hugin
They relentlessly oppose any actual construction of said power plants, while using the promise of the same to foil development of coal, oil and nuclear sources.

They do have a plan to fight AGW!

You can read about it here

50 posted on 04/05/2009 9:34:40 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

Is the painting behind him historical? It looks like a European fawning pretender about to kiss someones ring in a deep bow.


51 posted on 04/06/2009 4:07:27 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: ApplegateRanch

I hear, ya. I don’t trust the sun either. Sure, it was there yesterday. I am talking about the future. Moon reflects sunlight, sure it does!


52 posted on 04/06/2009 4:14:11 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge
Can we keep him from re-entering the country somehow? What if we require him to produce a birth-certificate along with his passport?
53 posted on 04/06/2009 4:16:13 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge; IrishCatholic; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; Fiddlstix; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

54 posted on 04/06/2009 8:28:50 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (What new from the Thief-in-Chief?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-54 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson