Finally, The President Gets One Right
Excuse me, while I stand and bow deeply:
“Obama to attend climate summit” said the newsflash, apparently announcing the news that environmentalists around the world had been praying to hear.
Within minutes, however, it became clear that President Obama was simply heading to the Danish capital for a photo opportunity.
He will stop off in Copenhagen on December 9 on his way to Oslo to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize. He will not, his officials say, be returning to join 65 other heads of state for the crucial last three days of the conference from December 16-18.
Obama is playing politics with the most important climate change negotiations for more than a decade in order to try to avoid embarrassing headlines.
Quite right, and quite rightly, I’d say.
I might also add, cynically, that President Obama has quite enough liars, prevaricators, and obfuscators in his administration without having to mix with those in the global warming mob.
But that doesn’t make them very happy:
[T]he compromise planned by Obama’s spin doctors is the worst possible outcome: by turning up briefly on the third day of the two-week conference he is sending a message that there is no point in other leaders being there for the denouement.
He is snubbing the rest of the world in order to suit his own travel diary. It is also a blatant attempt to hog the limelight: with no other world leaders present all eyes will be on the US President.
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Without Obama, those negotiations are less likely to produce a positive result.
I would bow again, but my back, you see…
These jackals deserve to be snubbed, and their “settled science” deserves the dustbin. Smothered science, bound and gagged science, duct taped and buried alive science is anything but settled. It turns out the most toxic thing about the theory of man-made global warming is its advocates.
The true will out, they say, and dang if it done did.