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President Obama will attend the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month, according to a senior administration official, a sign of the president’s increasing confidence that the talks will yield a meaningful agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The White House will also announce today that the United States will commit, in the talks, to reduce its emissions of the heat-trapping gases scientists blame for global warming “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, the official said. That’s the target set out in the climate bill the House passed in June.
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That’s going to create a lot of CO2 and not accomplish anything.
BadgerHawk on November 25, 2009 at 10:08 AM
If he listened to Fox News he would know….the climate change information is a fraud.
right2bright on November 25, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Hopfully he will be as successful as the chicago/olympics trip.
Rich on November 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Are his golf clubs coming?
Any good magazines to read during the trip?
WashJeff on November 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Doubling down on the error. Then again, 0bama is an error
Sekhmet on November 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Are you f’ing kidding me?! Does he live in a freaking vacuum and gets his info spoon-fed to him? Is he not aware of this global warming email flap?
Oh MY G.O.D.!!! It makes me want to pull my own hair. Actually I’d like to pull someone else’s.
Oink on November 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Rev up the cars, kids. Sounds like a lot of us are taking a road trip to DC.
Editor on November 25, 2009 at 10:11 AM
This guy has a he.. or high water mentality to destroy our economy.
journeyintothewhirlwind on November 25, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Good times. Good times.
WashJeff on November 25, 2009 at 10:11 AM
The con is still exposed and this bozo is still running with it…
javamartini on November 25, 2009 at 10:11 AM
I would love to sit in on the meetings where they decide where he should go and should not go.
Berlin- no
Ft. Hood- no
Copenhagen(olympics)-yes
Copenhagen(climate summit)-yes
Maybe he just really likes Copenhagen?
sammypants on November 25, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Wow! It’s funny, but the latest statement out of the CRU is this same doubling down crap. They are really going to just ignore the fact that AGW is a complete hoax and criminal racket. Time to make a LOT of noise.
Weight of Glory on November 25, 2009 at 10:12 AM
The con
is stillhas been exposed and this bozo is still running with it…javamartini on November 25, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Need coffee.
javamartini on November 25, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Seriously, I just wish the asteroid would hurry up.
SouthernGent on November 25, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Congress is considering an investigation into the climate hoax scandal, so Bozo knows its a hoax.
He’s been ordered to go by his master or he just wants another free vacation in Europe.
Has anyone else noticed, he doesn’t actually do anything for his paycheck?
dogsoldier on November 25, 2009 at 10:13 AM
That’ll happen, just because he says so? What is he going to do, sign an executive order?
Darksean on November 25, 2009 at 10:14 AM
LOL…
So the true-believers are going to double down on the AGW fraud, huh?
(Anyone know if a blog has been created to express appreciation to the truth-seeking hackers? I would like to express my deep appreciation to them for exposing this criminal scam.)
Rae on November 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM
OBAMA’S PRIORITIES:
1 – GOVT HEALTHCARE TO CURE A NON-EXISTENT HEALTHCARE CRISIS WHICH AMOUNTS TO NOTHING MORE THAN STEALTH SOCIALISM.
AND 2 – GOVT REGULATION OF CO2 AND ENERGY AND INDUSTRY IN ORDER TO COMBAT A NON-EXISTENT GLOBAL-WARMING CRISIS WHICH AMOUNTS TO NOTHING MORE THAN STEALTH SOCIALISM.
TOGETHER THEY PROVES OBAMA’S MAIN GOAL IS SOCIALISM AND THAT THIS IS RATIONALIZED BY APPEALING TO FEAR ON PHANTOM PROBLEMS.
THAT HE’S GOING TO DENMARK DESPITE CLIMATEGATE – AND WITH VIRTUALLY NO MENTION OF IT IN THE MSM – ONLY FURTHER PROVES THE UTTER RIDICULOUSNESS OF THE WHOLE MATTER.
reliapundit on November 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Okay, correct me if I am wrong but didn’t both India and China say they weren’t going to ruin their economies for over carbon emissions?
Obama, wake up, this is Russia all over again. They will say they are going to do something, and then, after you sign the paperwork, they will walk away laughing.
Obama, you are a nitwit. Harvard, I think you should call Obama and take back that degree.
journeyintothewhirlwind on November 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM
So along with his poll numbers, that’s two declines he needs to hide.
greggriffith on November 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM
While he’s there, he should discuss the problem of ships falling off the edge of this big green disk we call the earth.
Daggett on November 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Of course he’s going. Whatever he does is the wrong thing. Count on it.
Akzed on November 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM
LOL
LibTired on November 25, 2009 at 10:19 AM
The plain fact of the matter is the statists just don’t care anymore. This is their time, this is their chance to remake America as a socialist utopia. They have waited a long time for this and they are certainly not going to let scandals, hoaxes, public opinion, etc. get in the way.
Climate change was never about the climate to begin with. It was the tip of the spear to be driven into the heart of the world’s most powerful and important economy. Because in the mind of the statist, the United States is no better and no more important than any other nation. In the mind of the statist, we should all drive the same cars, receive the same salary, have the same access to rationed energy and receive the same health care.
BardMan on November 25, 2009 at 10:19 AM
He’s aware of it. He wasn’t planning on going at first, but now there’s a real urgency.
He’s got GE stock to protect.
papertiger on November 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM
On Bennett’s show this morning John Hinderacher sp? said that the East Anglia Climate Research Unit is “the Pentagon of climate change research.”
So this is as big a deal as there could possibly be on this topic, and Obooba et al are just gonna whistle Dixie.
Akzed on November 25, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Except for them.
LibTired on November 25, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Really. “Oooo, sciiiientists.”
Akzed on November 25, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Mr. President, you’ll produce less CO2 if you drive to Copenhagen.
Patrick S on November 25, 2009 at 10:23 AM
This crazy MFr better not sign any treaty. He is so radical that his actions are bordering on treason (literally). He’s on a campaign to drive our nation into a deep ditch.
marklmail on November 25, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Add the word “Change” to any convention and the Douchebag will show up. Here is an idea, why not invite him to the “Stop F@@ing Up This Country, Change” summit.
Michelle Dubois on November 25, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Why’n hell isn’t this conference being held in Greenland? After all if global warming is real then Greenland must be a tropical paradise by now…
Oldnuke on November 25, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Grandstanding about climate change while the country is hemorrhaging jobs–yeah, that will go over well.
Oh well, anything that gets him out of the country should be welcome, I suppose.
james23 on November 25, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Obama knows this is a fraud … he’s complicit.
Arrest, try, jail.
darwin on November 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Oh noes. This “commitment” has all the power and meaning of a non-binding UN Resolution.
Whatever. He’s throwing the green libs a bone. I don’t see much chance of this actually affecting our lives.
If they can concoct data to prove AGW, then it should be very easy to concoct data to prove reductions in carbon emissions. Just mirrors and smoke (cough, cough).
connertown on November 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Joe Caps on November 25, 2009 at 10:29 AM
NOW we’ll get to see what REAL bowing is all about! How low CAN he go?
karl9000 on November 25, 2009 at 10:29 AM
reliapundit on November 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Nice list, except you forgot to add #3:
3) Losing a war with people who are actually trying to kill us all.
bitsy on November 25, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Any chance to hobble the United States. What, global warming’s a hoax? Oh well too bad. He still thinks it’s for a good cause.
4shoes on November 25, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Need to ask Obama which “scientists” have his ear on gloabl warming? Name names Obama!
WashJeff on November 25, 2009 at 10:33 AM
HE. Doesn’t. Care.
The objective is to destroy our America and remake it in HIS image and nothing is going to stand in HIS way. Keep your eye on the run-up to the 2010 elections, the elections that may not occur.
johnsteele on November 25, 2009 at 10:34 AM
FIFY
Phil-351 on November 25, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Well, not ALL of us, some ARE more equal than others.
johnsteele on November 25, 2009 at 10:35 AM
That’s what they said about the Olympic bid as well.
MarkTheGreat on November 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Well, he did say if he was elected president, the waters would recede and the planet would be healed. My only question is, if the waters were fine to begin with and they have receded now, can we now start drilling “off shore” in what is now “on shore”? And why if the waters have receded did Cuba disappear completely and Florida only remain about half the size, and why did all the polar icecaps disappear if the waters have receded?
UnderstandingisPower on November 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM
I see Obama still believes that he is the country.
MarkTheGreat on November 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM
And seriously, at what point do we start using the word “traitor”? I don’t want to miss that moment.
UnderstandingisPower on November 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM
He did. He called them czars. Van Jones, David J. Haynes, Todd Stern, Carol Browner, John Holdren, Cass Sunstein. All policital hacks, statists, and far left wingers. ‘Scientists’ in Obama’s opinion.
Phil-351 on November 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM
I miss Bush. And Cheney.
KillerKane on November 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM
He subscribes to the LA Times, how would he know since they never mentioned the emails exposing the eco-crap fraud in the linked article.
Not a word.
fogw on November 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Obowa summed up in a cartoon. Expect muslim riots, soon…
SouthernGent on November 25, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I think he should also commit to joining the League of Nations while he’s there.
ManUFan on November 25, 2009 at 10:46 AM
They must have offered to give him an award.
29Victor on November 25, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Preview:
“Never in its long history would CO2 have imagined that America would one day have a black president…”
“When I was a child we used to produce large quantities of CO2 while playing in our back yard…”
“My vice president is so dedicated to ending the production of CO2 that he has trained himself to exhale only once every three hours. Of course this has led to terrible, terrible brain damage…”
29Victor on November 25, 2009 at 10:52 AM
So, during his “Asia Muzzles Me Tour” did he get any consessions from the Chinese to lower their pollution emissions?
Didn’t think so.
No biggie though, there are only 1.3 billion people transitioning from bicycles to automobiles.
Loser President.
fogw on November 25, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Of course, he’s going to Copenhagen. Things are definitely too hot for him to hang around here.
kingsjester on November 25, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Osama Obama lending his support to fraud? So what’s news about that?
In times past, an impeachment resolution would be waiting for him when he gets home from Copenhagen.
But the criminal swine in Congress and D.C. in general — led by the porcine Al Gore — have figured out that they can make huge fortunes by destroying the nation.
So they are as guilty as he is.
Which means they all need to go, ASAP.
MrScribbler on November 25, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Maybe instead of smoking cigarettes, Obama should start chewing Copenhagen in order to match his obsession with going there for non-useful, time-wasting activities.
jon1979 on November 25, 2009 at 11:00 AM
I’m thinking he’s trying to set sail before the tide leaves him high and dry.
Now Congress going along with this farce is another matter.
CPT. Charles on November 25, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Great, because the best thing that Obama can do right now is tie himself to another sinking ship. Marxism isn’t sinking fast enough but thanks to Climategate, we can get this over with sooner rather than later.
Sharke on November 25, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Global warming data has been proved false. Yet Obama is itching to go to Copenhagen and destroy our way of life. Hope and change, indeed.
Here’s hoping we change our leaders in 2010 and 2012 and that no Democrat ever holds an office of power ever again.
englishqueen01 on November 25, 2009 at 11:04 AM
So if he ignores Climategate it will disappear?
Cindy Munford on November 25, 2009 at 11:04 AM
“Obviously, we are glad that President Obama will be in Copenhagen in the early part of the climate summit,” said Keya Chatterjee, the climate director for World Wildlife Fund. “It’s important that his words during this important moment convey that the United States intends to make climate change a legislative priority, not simply a rhetorical one.
“If it becomes necessary to secure the right commitments,” she added, “the President must also be willing to return to Copenhagen with the rest of the world’s leaders during the final stages of the negotiations.”
Blackmail?
journeyintothewhirlwind on November 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM
We can’t let it disappear, Cindy. It really is up to us. Our govt has been taken over. I believe that with every fiber of my being.
Oink on November 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Inhofe won’t let it go:
INC on November 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Raaaaaaaaaaaaacccccccccccccccssssssssssst!
29Victor on November 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM
ClimateGate is also the top story at Memeorandum!
http://memeorandum.com/
The Dems are going to look like crooked Keystone Cops before this is over.
INC on November 25, 2009 at 11:12 AM
I wonder what kind of announcements will be made by Holder and his minions while he is out of the country this time?
d1carter on November 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM
He’s going to pick up his peace prize on the way. Great.
That’s a peace prize!
thebrokenrattle on November 25, 2009 at 11:18 AM
aaaah.
That’s it…
How’s that feel?
How’s that ‘fundamental transformation’ baby?
cntrlfrk on November 25, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Agreed.
Cindy Munford on November 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM
When are the American people going to say, “No More!” to all of this crisis mongering?
Renae on November 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Barack Hoaxmeister Obama, chump in charge.
The HOPE has become a DOPE.
The CHANGE, a MANGE.
Hysteria is unscientific.
Faking your computer models is usually considered FRAUD.
profitsbeard on November 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM
From a poster at WUWT: [h/t BOTO]
http://i49.tinypic.com/2gy8w9v.jpg
The official commemorative picture?
CPT. Charles on November 25, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Its official – ANY crime will be forgiven to advance the liberal agenda.
Ed Graef on November 25, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Remember way back a couple of months ago when – - – -
Obama WARNED the MSM about reporting on stories that were on FOX NEWS?
Now, we get to see why.
Obama is racing to Copenhagen to sign ANY treaty he can! He knows the gig is up, and he is DESPERATE!
Obama seems to think that the US Senate will go along. But as we are learning, Obama is an ideological fool.
Freddy on November 25, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Yep, it ain’t dead yet. We have to keep fighting to drive a stake in it’s heart.
ZenDraken on November 25, 2009 at 12:53 PM
In the face of overwhelming evidence of Climategate fraud, Obama is striving to have his own Don Quixote moment!!!
I’d guess that the next stop on Obama’s “Hollow Words World Tour” will be an address before the Flat Earth Society.
landlines on November 25, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Climategate finally gets to the top of Drudge. . .
Right next to the ‘Off to Copenhagen’ link.
Hmmmmm.
I guess timing is everything.
CPT. Charles on November 25, 2009 at 1:27 PM