Posted on 12/18/2009 12:05:11 PM PST by DadOfFive
COPENHAGEN — Has Copenhagen collapsed?
That seems to be the growing sentiment inside the city's Bella Conference Center, where officials, environmentalists and even delegates to the international climate conference began streaming out Friday evening. What began with excitement and anticipation two weeks ago ended Friday night with disappointment and anger for thousands.
"This is a sad day for my country," said Mama Konate, chief delegate from the West African nation of Mali. "We have worked very hard to reach this agreement. And now it seems over. Without a deadline, I don't know if we will ever finish."
The conference, the largest of its kind, attracted scientists, activists and human rights supporters from every corner of the globe, who believe that without a climate accord limiting greenhouse gases, glaciers will melt, oceans will rise and the weather will go so warm it could wipe out 50 percent of the Earth's species. Until Friday, they saw Copenhagen as their last chance to stop it.
"You can scapegoat the process. That wasn't it. It was the unwillingness of people to move around big issues: China on verification, the U.S. on deeper emission cuts," said the head of an NGO that does relief work in Africa.
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Perfect place to express our condolences....
Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world with a per capita income of about $4 a year.
That’s not a typo. Four lousy bucks per person per YEAR.
The only way that chick gets a new mercedes is if YOU, the American taxpayer, pay for it.
I hope that the first military incursion of the new Palin Administration is to TOPPLE Hugo Chavez and make Venezuela an American protectorate.
Just give the whole country to ExxonMobil to run.
What ever happened to enforcing the Monroe Doctrine?
Foxnews banner reads “’Meaningful agreement’ reached in Copenhagen on climate change, Obama administration official says”. Hahaha, spin at its best.
That’s right! And you aren’t getting the taxpayers money from the US like you had planned.
The US is already doing it’s fair share!
What began with excitement and anticipation two weeks ago ended Friday night with disappointment and anger for thousands.
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How sweet it is! What right do they have to hijack the world with phony science? They should be disappointed - in themselves for being so GULLIBLE.
Hey Hillary - Reset This!!!
Like rain on your wedding day...
lol, nothing in whatsherfaces song is actually Ironic, nothing.
Being unable to land on your way home from a global warming summit because of a blizzard, is on the other hand, the highest form of irony.
They should have canceled it after climategate and obama should never have showed up.
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This on the heels of the Obamadebacle in front of the Olympic committee...wow, this guy has the reverse Midas touch, hey?
LOL bammy - you self annointed savior of the world...
CNN just announced that Obama has a climate deal. What gives?
Hey CO2mmies, LOL!
“It’s a sad day for us. We came here expecting white guilt and colonialism to cause developed nations to fork over hundreds of billions of dollars for our tin-pot dictatorships and commie regimes. But instead we end up with nothing.”
“The fact we piss away any international aid we get, and our dictators hoard it and use it to by military equipment and kill and pillage people, is beyond the point. The fact tribal warfare is still around in Africa long after we kicked out the whites, no, please do not bring that fact up.”
Extraordinarily well said———thanks.
But few know what that means. Now some will quit. Others will arm themselves. The latter will pose a significant problem because they will pattern themselves after Al Qaeda and maybe link up with them.
Obama will bow to them and do the mea culpa a$$ wiggle and walk, by passing Crap and Charade.
*Wishing for the merriest of Christmases*
We came, we saw, we said fuhgeddaboudit!
Is Sarah Palin really a member of the Church of Climatology Choir???
rulers reach deal on climate change in Copenhagen http://bit.ly/7dUmWU
I didn’t even see her picture in there. Some smartass farked her in there over probably Pelosi or somebodies face.
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