Posts Tagged ‘global warming’

On November 19, 2008, while addressing the topic of climate change and reducing emissions, Presidential candidate Barack Obama said,

“Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response.”

But, on November 15, 2009, President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed to delay a climate pact.

U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, but European negotiators said the move did not imply weaker action.

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Given the time factor and the situation of individual countries we must, in the coming weeks, focus on what is possible and not let ourselves be distracted by what is not possible,” Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the leaders.

What “situation” in other countries could possibly be more important than climate change? Isn’t the world going to explode (or was that Al Gore?) or something if we don’t move quickly?

Copenhagen was seen as the last chance for countries to agree on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, aiming to fight a rise in temperatures that many scientists predict will bring rising sea levels and more floods and droughts.

The last chance? Oh great! Now what? I can hardly wait to hear what Al Gore has to say about this.