Climate Deal Reached In Copenhagen

4:53 pm EST December 18th, 2009 | News | 4 Comments

A step forward for common sense.

The U.S. and four other countries reached a ‘meaningful agreement’ aimed at breaking the logjam on a broader international framework on climate, President Barack Obama said on Friday.

The proposal, which next goes to the full U.N. summit of nations here, includes a way to verify reductions of heat-trapping gases that cause global warming.

It also would require each country to list the actions it will take to cut global warming pollution by specific amounts.

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4 Responses to “Climate Deal Reached In Copenhagen”

  1. Jaim says:
    December 18, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    WaPo: “Climate deal falls short of key goals”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121800637.html?hpid=topnews

    You’re not even trying to cover your track these days, are you?

  2. Oliver Willis says:
    December 18, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    Before today, people didn’t even think there was going to be a deal. Obama doesn’t walk on water, news at 11.

  3. Jen7 says:
    December 19, 2009 at 12:19 am

    Obama will be attacked left and right now for just about everything. Like he wasn’t before, but now from the left. Oh wait, he pretty much has been. Apparently, the teabaggers are like the progressives….or something stupid like that.

    My respect for Obama went down a notch for negotiating with a rat like Lieberman, but people need to lighten the f up. I get enough irrational speak from Glenn Beck, I’m tired of hearing it from the left.

  4. Jaim says:
    December 19, 2009 at 7:44 am

    I’m not attacking Obama for going to Copenhagen, but let’s not trumpet a “deal” that really doesn’t accomplish anything. (Climate change isn’t a top priority issue for me fwiw, but from the scientists I’ve read who really are concerned, Copenhagan did nothing.)