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President Obama urges action on climate change
politico.com ^ | Sept. 22, 2009 | JOSH GERSTEIN

Posted on 09/22/2009 10:02:26 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

NEW YORK - President Barack Obama urged world leaders at the United Nations on Tuesday to act swiftly to address climate change, but did not offer a plan, or timetable, to get stalled cap-and-trade climate legislation through the U.S. Senate.

“After too many years of inaction and denial, there is finally widespread recognition of the urgency of the challenge before us. We know what needs to be done,” Obama told fellow heads of state gathered for a climate change summit called by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

“The journey is long. The journey is hard,” Obama added. “We don’t have much time left to make that journey.”

In advance of a key climate-change conference this December in Copenhagen, Denmark, many diplomats and environmentalists were hoping that Obama would detail his strategy to move House-approved carbon-emissions trading legislation through the Senate and onto his desk to be signed into law. But Obama only made a vague pledge to keep pushing for the measure.

“The House of Representatives passed an energy and climate bill in June that would finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy for American businesses and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” Obama explained. “One committee has already acted on this bill in the Senate, and I look forward to engaging with others as we move forward.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crazybarry; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax

1 posted on 09/22/2009 10:02:26 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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2 posted on 09/22/2009 10:03:40 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

3 posted on 09/22/2009 10:04:05 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wonder what is toimorrows edict.


4 posted on 09/22/2009 10:04:43 AM PDT by Paperdoll (Duncan L. Hunter, Where are you?)
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To: xcamel

They need to act quickly before even the dumbest figures out it’s getting colder, not warmer.


5 posted on 09/22/2009 10:04:47 AM PDT by airborne (Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
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To: xcamel

Zero showed up without a plan? Shocking, I tell ya...


6 posted on 09/22/2009 10:06:19 AM PDT by joejm65
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To: Free ThinkerNY

We got to get this moron out of the whitehouse NOW!!!
We can’t let this global warming BS happen. If it does, our sovereignty as a nation and what’s left of our freedom is gone forever, and control over the worlds energy supplies will be in the hands of the worlds elitists, unelected, unaccountable wanna-be world emperors lording over us and the world.


7 posted on 09/22/2009 10:11:39 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: airborne

8 posted on 09/22/2009 10:15:32 AM PDT by gura (R-MO)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They all drank the kool-aid.


9 posted on 09/22/2009 10:17:45 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“The House of Representatives passed an energy and climate bill in June that would finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy for American businesses Democratic environmental lobbies and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions the viability of capitalism,” Obama explained.

There, fixed it.

10 posted on 09/22/2009 10:19:29 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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11 posted on 09/22/2009 10:20:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hankyman - Mr. O


12 posted on 09/22/2009 10:23:57 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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The Emperor's New Clothes

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Belling the Cat
13 posted on 09/22/2009 10:46:02 AM PDT by StACase (Global Warming is CRAP!)
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This guy is everywhere into everything and screwing them all up.


14 posted on 09/22/2009 11:06:53 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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