The AP are such sleaze buckets for not pointing out that
Clinton never presented Kyoto to Congress,
as it would have been slaughtered.
Posted on 12/08/2005 9:23:08 PM PST by RWR8189
MONTREAL (AP) -- In a surprise visit, former President Clinton will speak at the annual U.N. climate conference Friday, final day of a contentious two-week meeting, the United Nations confirmed.
Bush administration envoys here were said to be displeased at Thursday's news of the unusual appearance - of an ex-president at a critical point in backroom negotiations involving the U.S. delegation.
"They haven't protested formally, but they're annoyed," a source in the Canadian government, the conference host, said of the U.S. delegates. "They're not infuriated, but they're not thrilled."
The source spoke on condition of anonymity, because as a civil servant - not a politician - he is barred from being in the public light during Canada's current election season.
The U.S. delegation was meeting Thursday evening and had no immediate public comment, said spokeswoman Susan Povenmire.
As president, Clinton championed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to fight global warming, an international agreement requiring reductions in "greenhouse-gas" emissions by major industrialized nations. Soon after he succeeded Clinton, President Bush formally renounced the Kyoto accord, saying it would harm the U.S. economy.
In Montreal, the United States has rejected proposals that it rejoin future negotiations to set emissions controls for the period after 2012, when the Kyoto framework expires.
Clinton, who was invited here by the City of Montreal, will speak in an unofficial context in the main conference hall Friday afternoon, said U.N. conference spokesman John Hay.
A city spokesman said the former president will be representing the William J. Clinton Foundation, which operates the Clinton Global Initiative, a program focusing on climate change as a business opportunity, The Canadian Press reported.
Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, was instrumental in final negotiations on the treaty protocol negotiated in the Japanese city of Kyoto eight years ago. It mandates cutbacks by 2012 in emissions of carbon dioxide and five other gases whose buildup in the atmosphere is expected to disrupt the global climate.
A broad scientific consensus agrees that greenhouse gases, byproducts of automobile engines, power plants and other fossil fuel-burning industries, have already contributed significantly to the past century's global temperature rise of 1 degree Fahrenheit.
The Kyoto protocol's language requires its member nations to begin talks now on emissions controls after 2012, and by Thursday those governments appeared near agreement on a process for completing such talks by 2008.
But the Canadians and others also saw Montreal as an opportunity to draw the outsider United States into the emission-controls regime.
Those efforts continued Thursday, when the Americans were presented with vague language by which they would join only in "exploring" "approaches" to cooperative action.
The Bush administration has said it prefers to deal with other governments on a bilateral or regional basis, not through global negotiations, and it favors voluntary approaches. The chief U.S. delegate Paula Dobriansky pointed to $3-billion-a-year U.S. government spending on research and development of energy-saving technologies as a demonstration of U.S. efforts to combat climate change.
(As president, Clinton championed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to fight global warming)
The AP are such sleaze buckets for not pointing out that Clinton never presented Kyoto to Congress as it would have been slaughtered.
Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter need to go ahead and start their own socialist country, preferably not in the Western Hemispehere.
Clinton must be representing France....
This is only what he's done publicly. Who knows what he's been doing behind the scenes.
Isn't that special. Our favorite sociopath hogs the spotlight, again. Everyone nauseated by now? For a few bucks he'd probably do weddings and bar mitzvahs.
What is it with this jerk? Him and little Jimmy Carter are useless and yet their need to constantly grab the spot light never ends.
Wasn't it presented and voted down in the Senate 99-0? Am I confusing that vote with something else?
This is the guy Mrs. GHWB calls son?
What evil has this admin loosed on us all?
I don't understand it. He should have his passport revoked.
I agree...
You know, I was thinking the other day when listening to Volcker's apologist stance on Kofi Annan. Besides the probablility that someone should investigate the investigator, I want Kofi to remain where he is. We all know where he stands and what he is and he knows we know. If he stepped down, guess who would try for the job? Someone mentioned awhile back that Clinton could not apply for Kofi's job. Could someone refresh my memory as to why?
I think it's time to lay down the law with this treason.
"Who knows what he's been doing behind the scenes."
Maurice Strong? Mark Malloch Brown? Marc Rich?
Old Slick Willie back up there trashing the US for Slickette and plugging his hot Canmadian honey, heiress/politician Belinda Stronach.
The Arkansas Grifters are endlessly entertaining, but extremely dangerous.
Old Slick Willie back up there trashing the US for Slickette and plugging his hot Canadian honey, heiress/politician Belinda Stronach.
The Arkansas Grifters are endlessly entertaining, but extremely dangerous.
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