Bloomberg
Kim Chipman and Hans Nichols
Nov 25, 2009
President Barack Obama will attend climate-change talks in Copenhagen next month, offering an emissions-cut goal of about 17 percent by 2020 after legislation to reduce greenhouse gases stalled in Congress.
The president will travel to the Danish capital on Dec. 9 during the first week of negotiations for a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters today. Obama will then accept the Nobel Peace prize in nearby Oslo on Dec. 10.
Obama, who campaigned on a pledge to tackle climate change, has been under pressure to attend the meeting and offer for the first time a 2020 reduction target. The U.S. has faced criticism for failing to enact legislation to limit heat-trapping pollution and create an emissions-trading market. The U.S. is the biggest greenhouse-gas producer among developed nations.
Editors note:
Apparently he missed this:
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and this:
Another Prominent Scientist Calls CRU Scientists “Criminals”
and this:
and this:
Inhofe Announces Climategate Investigation on Fox News
and this:
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and this:
and this:
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and this:
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