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| World leaders try to save floundering climate summit |
| 2009-12-15 |
| World leaders began arriving at the United Nations climate summit on Tuesday, seeking to give a shot in the arm to the floundering talks after warnings that the whole event was at risk of ending in failure. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were among the heavyweights expected in the Danish capital where officials and climate ministers have struggled to make any progress since the marathon meeting began eight days ago. "I appeal to all world leaders ... to redouble efforts to find the room for compromise, to make a final push in this final stretch," Ban told reporters in New York before flying to the Danish capital. "Time is running out ... There is no time for posturing or blaming," he said. "If everything is left to leaders to resolve at the last minute, we risk having a weak deal or no deal at all. And this would be a failure of potentially catastrophic consequence." The summit, which reaches its climax on Friday when 120 heads of state huddle in the Danish capital, has been billed as one of the most important gatherings of the post-World War II era. The conference's goal is to agree an outline deal of national pledges to curb carbon emissions and set up a mechanism to provide billions of dollars in help for poor countries in the firing line of climate change. But deep divisions remain over how the tab split, with developing countries demanding that their rich counterparts implement a 40% in carbon emissions by 2020 compared with 1990 levels. You can stick of fork in it. It's dead Jim. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 The puppets - where are the friggin' giant paper-mache puppets? You can't have a good moonbat alarmist-fest without puppets... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-12-15 21:25 |
| #6 Yeah, yeah. We're all gonna die if we don't buy into your scheme. You have paraded before us and even we peasants can see that the emperor has no clothes. Go back from your Copenhagen meeting via surface freight and save some CO2. Bloody deluded souls. Ah pity the poor fools. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-12-15 19:43 |
| #5 "Time is running out ... There is no time for posturing or blaming," he said. "If everything is left to leaders to resolve at the last minute, we risk having a weak deal or no deal at all. And this would be a failure of potentially catastrophic consequence." Spoken like someone whose stock options are going to soon expire.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2009-12-15 13:59 |
| #4 It will never be over until the politians can't get any more kickbacks from it. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-12-15 11:51 |
| #3 Yeah, put it out of its and our misery. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-12-15 11:44 |
| #2 Save it? I say we just go ahead and shoot it in the head, put it out of our misery. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-12-15 11:19 |
| #1 Cow farts are killing the Polar bears. Al Gore warned us this would happen. |
| Posted by: Angleton9 2009-12-15 08:29 |