Posted on 12/16/2009 9:54:58 PM PST by george76
The climate change summit in Copenhagen was in jeopardy tonight with the complex negotiations falling far behind schedule as the climate secretary, Ed Miliband, warned of a "farce".
With just two days remaining, the inability to overcome disagreements about the shape of a deal to combat global warming led to hours of inaction today , while outside the negotiations police clashed with protesters who broke through a security cordon but failed in an attempt to storm the conference centre.
"We have made no progress" said a source close to the talks. "What people don't realise is that we are now not really ready for the leaders. These talks are now 18 hours late."
More than 115 world leaders arrive tomorrow and on Friday and had expected only to bargain over the final details in a prepared draft agreement but the earlier impasse could condemn the talks to failure.
For the first time frustrated negotiators spoke openly of – at best – reaching a weak political agreement that would leave no clear way forward to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions.
That would mean the negotiations staying in limbo well into next year, increasing the damage caused by global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
It was a farce from the get go.
Wolf...Wolf...Wolf
Copenhagen, like the Muppet show...but with marxists!
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I thought it already smacked into ‘farce’, side-swiped ‘debacle’, and careened full speed into ‘monumental fraud.’
As if the existence of such a thing as a "Climate Secretary" was not a farce...
His warning is years late.
Not to worry...America’s HOAX & CHANGE agent is about to appear on the scene to fix things.
Veering towards? LOL! AGW is all farce all the time.
The heavy snow set-up by the “NAM” next week should slam the east just fine.
Climate Secretary?
All and all it sounds like the 68 Democratic convention in Daleyville.
I knew this was going to happen after those hookers announced that they’d be giving it away free to all the global warmers attending this fiasco.
LOL! The models are conflicting.
LOL. I love the Guardian. They are true believers. Just imagine how many fictitious polar bears will suffer if Gore and the AGW high priests don't take over the world RIGHT NOW!!!
Copenhagen is a freak show. Its a good laugh after ClimateGate and has aroused peoples’ interests enough to be amuzed by it. But in the long run, no one appreciates being lied to and taken to the cleaners. Al Gore is the Clown of this freak show. The Obama administration and his progressives are the reviled Bernie Madoff clones.
“veering towards” farce??
How can a summit about a hoax be anything but a farce from the beginning?
What a shocking, totally unforseeable development.
Watching the Guardian get all worked up is fun.
“At the heart of the impasse is the fate of the Kyoto protocol, signed in 1997. It is the only legally binding agreement on climate change and requires industrialised nations – but not developing nations – to cut their emissions.”
Just so you’all clowns know the Kyoto crapola treaty was never signed into law in the USA.
Stupid people should not be published.
Well, all I can say is we all get so worked up (I know I do) about the new World Religion, but I think our God may be showing us Who is on the throne...once again.
Merry Christmas?
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