I agree with one of the commenters to that statement of Obama’s. It is much better for the world when Obama is on the golf course. So now he is aiding and abetting communist imperialism.
You gotta admit. When it comes to kissing ass, Obama is the man. Just surprised he didn’t give Taiwan away while he was on a roll.
Obama is a lame duck. The opinions of the leaders of the senate and congress are what china wants to hear.
I bet there are a few lefties pretty upset that their glorious leader threw that nice brown man in the shawl who is so hip with the In crowd under the Chinese bus.
I think he meant to say he was going to cut nocturnal emissions by 26%, or maybe the GDP.
If I hear “climate crisis” once more, I’ll snap. Bah. I wish Gore would just go away and take The Fruit Fly Guy with him.
Sure climate changes and people suffer and many of the world’s ever-increasing population are indeed vulnerable to weather events; however, IPCC’s own extreme-weather experts reported in 2012 that population growth, poverty and poor planning are the cause of vulnerability and they could find no firm trends in droughts, floods and heat waves. (Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. IPCC, 2012.) There are almost three times as many people on earth today compared the 1950s. So every storm has three times the possibility of affecting a human life.
And it is not just poor countries where people are vulnerable. Here in Canada we’ve yet to grasp the concept of “flood plain” and continue to build million-dollar houses along rivers. Not too ‘mart.
As for Obama. Pigs will fly before the USA makes those sort of cuts. He should take Justin bowling.
So is that Obama’s way of saying he is going to foment a crisis so that he can suspend Congress, declare martial law and rule as a dictator for the next 11 years? Just sayin…
mid island mike
He hasn’t kept his vow to “uphold the Constitution of the United States of America,” so why should anyone believe this vow.
mid island mike98c367
Who is this “we” that just abandoned Tibet? Was congress approached on this? Did I miss a Senate vote? You mean foreign policy is just what one (unthinking) man happens to muse upon at the moment? USA, if you continue to take this, you deserve your fate.
… more like Obama’s way of saying deindustrialization is proceeding on schedule (and over budget).
this BOY will say anything to expedite a “legacy”, but he just digs that hole faster and deeper every time he opens his mouth
Oh well. Like all his other stupidities, there won’t be any kind of a meaningful protest. Everybody fixated on the important stuff…football and Miley Cyrus’ foo-foo.
You can keep your independence Tibet.
As usual he supports the tyrant, see Iran. This man is bad.
Why does this remind me of one of those comedy sketches where somebody decides to haggle and ends up paying more than was asked for in the first place?
So he’s outsourcing 26% more US industry to China then?
I wonder why politicians who think global warming is a problem never factor in population growth. Obama wants millions of uneducated welfare immigrants and yet he thinks, or maybe he doesn’t, that they will have no effect on the reduction of CO2. there are so many brain dead out there it is difficult to believe that humans have come as far as we have.
An interesting fuss this might create among the lefties. The Dalai Lama is an icon of theirs. Seems the Left’s affectation for social justice no longer extends to exiled Tibetan monks.
And the Chinese mandarins win all way around. They get the US to abandon any rhetoric about Tibet in return for their agreement on a supposed global warming pact in which China will simply commit to doing things they were going to do anyway.
Welcome to “change you can believe in”.
“Obama vows US will cut emissions by at least 26 percent over next 11 years…”
Except this could mean anything or nothing.
Eleven years from now it will be 2025. Obama is only president until 20 January 2017.
By the way, that noise we keep hearing from the US is the sound of exploding heads: all those progressive Obamatistas with “FREE TIBET” stickers on the back of their Volvo station wagons.
I’m almost beyond caring and quite looking forward to the Ed Begley Jr vs Richard Gere fight in front of whole foods.
“with “FREE TIBET” stickers on the back of their Volvo station wagons.”
or VW Pissants
or Saabs
or Audis (to a lessor extent;-)))
Or Suburu Forester with Vermont licence plate
This is the same tactic Chretien used. Grab an audacious goal for no other reason than having moral perch on which to hector.
The issue is that Harper has already said he would only agree to whatever the restrictions that the US will, so that we didnt disadvantage ourselves. Silly Steve, he was counting on the US President actually being interested in US self interest.
This is what will be used to kill oil sands, KEystone etc etc. 26% reduction while the economy grows over 30 years.
ANyway, it isnt a committment of anyone other than Obama since there is no treaty that is being signed at this stage. Like most of Obama’s statements it comes with caveats and expiry’s and is only said for grandstanding purposes.
But you should take this is as an indicator of what the next two years will be like. Lots of statements, wouldnt shock me if he unilaterally disarms.
It wont be impeachment, but it will be 25th ammendment (internal). Obama is vulnerable to not having a posse at the political level and is leading the Dems down a lonely and disasterous road. SHould he appear to be unhinged, which we keep hearing, Nixonian isoltion, disconnected, in his own world etc, I see a scenario where they have had enough. Right now I could see Hagel and Kerry signing that letter and Biden would as well. Question is how many other would do it and what would it take to get them there.
It doesn’t matter what Obama says now as he is the lamest duck of all time with nothing remaining but a dysfunctional left wing. All international treaties must be ratified by Congress and they’re not going to make the USA slit its own throat.
Justin, can we get a word on how do you feel about Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and your favourite dicatorship after President Obama’s comments today?
In other words, Obama just vowed to completely collapse the economy with his last breath. I really hope the new Senate and Congress tear into him over the next two years.
What you guys are missing by not reading between the lines is the reason that China and the US are signing this is because carbon emission projections are likely to sink due to technological attrition (cars with better gas mileage, etc.). They don’t need to do a lot, if anything, to hit these goals.
What a lame duck president; this crap has no chance of seeing the legislative light of day. He’ll have to issue another executive order. As American voters signal their move to the right in mid-term elections, Obama moves the POTUS even further to the left. That’s an accomplishment for even this socialist addled “you didn’t build that” and “corporations don’t create jobs” administration.
With Obambam basically giving Tibet away, maybe next he’ll cave to Putin and give Alaska back. Or California and Texas to the Mexican catels. Louisiana purchase back to France? What an absolute waste of space that moron is.
“maybe next he’ll cave to Putin and give Alaska back. Or California and Texas to the Mexican catels. Louisiana purchase back to France?”
Shhh canuck66, someone might think it’s a good idea!!
CBC was saying that this puts pressure on Canada to take action on climate change.
OK, how about we agree to match whatever China does. I’d go along with that.
I agree with one of the commenters to that statement of Obama’s. It is much better for the world when Obama is on the golf course. So now he is aiding and abetting communist imperialism.
You gotta admit. When it comes to kissing ass, Obama is the man. Just surprised he didn’t give Taiwan away while he was on a roll.
Meanwhile, behind the facade, the Chinese are having a problem hiding how they really feel those evil yankees and their running dogs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/world/asia/china-turns-up-the-rhetoric-against-the-west.html?_r=0
Obama is a lame duck. The opinions of the leaders of the senate and congress are what china wants to hear.
I bet there are a few lefties pretty upset that their glorious leader threw that nice brown man in the shawl who is so hip with the In crowd under the Chinese bus.
I think he meant to say he was going to cut nocturnal emissions by 26%, or maybe the GDP.
If I hear “climate crisis” once more, I’ll snap. Bah. I wish Gore would just go away and take The Fruit Fly Guy with him.
Sure climate changes and people suffer and many of the world’s ever-increasing population are indeed vulnerable to weather events; however, IPCC’s own extreme-weather experts reported in 2012 that population growth, poverty and poor planning are the cause of vulnerability and they could find no firm trends in droughts, floods and heat waves. (Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. IPCC, 2012.) There are almost three times as many people on earth today compared the 1950s. So every storm has three times the possibility of affecting a human life.
And it is not just poor countries where people are vulnerable. Here in Canada we’ve yet to grasp the concept of “flood plain” and continue to build million-dollar houses along rivers. Not too ‘mart.
As for Obama. Pigs will fly before the USA makes those sort of cuts. He should take Justin bowling.
So is that Obama’s way of saying he is going to foment a crisis so that he can suspend Congress, declare martial law and rule as a dictator for the next 11 years? Just sayin…
mid island mike
He hasn’t kept his vow to “uphold the Constitution of the United States of America,” so why should anyone believe this vow.
mid island mike98c367
Who is this “we” that just abandoned Tibet? Was congress approached on this? Did I miss a Senate vote? You mean foreign policy is just what one (unthinking) man happens to muse upon at the moment? USA, if you continue to take this, you deserve your fate.
… more like Obama’s way of saying deindustrialization is proceeding on schedule (and over budget).
this BOY will say anything to expedite a “legacy”, but he just digs that hole faster and deeper every time he opens his mouth
Oh well. Like all his other stupidities, there won’t be any kind of a meaningful protest. Everybody fixated on the important stuff…football and Miley Cyrus’ foo-foo.
You can keep your independence Tibet.
As usual he supports the tyrant, see Iran. This man is bad.
Why does this remind me of one of those comedy sketches where somebody decides to haggle and ends up paying more than was asked for in the first place?
So he’s outsourcing 26% more US industry to China then?
I wonder why politicians who think global warming is a problem never factor in population growth. Obama wants millions of uneducated welfare immigrants and yet he thinks, or maybe he doesn’t, that they will have no effect on the reduction of CO2. there are so many brain dead out there it is difficult to believe that humans have come as far as we have.
An interesting fuss this might create among the lefties. The Dalai Lama is an icon of theirs. Seems the Left’s affectation for social justice no longer extends to exiled Tibetan monks.
And the Chinese mandarins win all way around. They get the US to abandon any rhetoric about Tibet in return for their agreement on a supposed global warming pact in which China will simply commit to doing things they were going to do anyway.
Welcome to “change you can believe in”.
“Obama vows US will cut emissions by at least 26 percent over next 11 years…”
Except this could mean anything or nothing.
Eleven years from now it will be 2025. Obama is only president until 20 January 2017.
By the way, that noise we keep hearing from the US is the sound of exploding heads: all those progressive Obamatistas with “FREE TIBET” stickers on the back of their Volvo station wagons.
I’m almost beyond caring and quite looking forward to the Ed Begley Jr vs Richard Gere fight in front of whole foods.
“with “FREE TIBET” stickers on the back of their Volvo station wagons.”
or VW Pissants
or Saabs
or Audis (to a lessor extent;-)))
Or Suburu Forester with Vermont licence plate
This is the same tactic Chretien used. Grab an audacious goal for no other reason than having moral perch on which to hector.
The issue is that Harper has already said he would only agree to whatever the restrictions that the US will, so that we didnt disadvantage ourselves. Silly Steve, he was counting on the US President actually being interested in US self interest.
This is what will be used to kill oil sands, KEystone etc etc. 26% reduction while the economy grows over 30 years.
ANyway, it isnt a committment of anyone other than Obama since there is no treaty that is being signed at this stage. Like most of Obama’s statements it comes with caveats and expiry’s and is only said for grandstanding purposes.
But you should take this is as an indicator of what the next two years will be like. Lots of statements, wouldnt shock me if he unilaterally disarms.
It wont be impeachment, but it will be 25th ammendment (internal). Obama is vulnerable to not having a posse at the political level and is leading the Dems down a lonely and disasterous road. SHould he appear to be unhinged, which we keep hearing, Nixonian isoltion, disconnected, in his own world etc, I see a scenario where they have had enough. Right now I could see Hagel and Kerry signing that letter and Biden would as well. Question is how many other would do it and what would it take to get them there.
It doesn’t matter what Obama says now as he is the lamest duck of all time with nothing remaining but a dysfunctional left wing. All international treaties must be ratified by Congress and they’re not going to make the USA slit its own throat.
Justin, can we get a word on how do you feel about Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and your favourite dicatorship after President Obama’s comments today?
In other words, Obama just vowed to completely collapse the economy with his last breath. I really hope the new Senate and Congress tear into him over the next two years.
What you guys are missing by not reading between the lines is the reason that China and the US are signing this is because carbon emission projections are likely to sink due to technological attrition (cars with better gas mileage, etc.). They don’t need to do a lot, if anything, to hit these goals.
What a lame duck president; this crap has no chance of seeing the legislative light of day. He’ll have to issue another executive order. As American voters signal their move to the right in mid-term elections, Obama moves the POTUS even further to the left. That’s an accomplishment for even this socialist addled “you didn’t build that” and “corporations don’t create jobs” administration.
With Obambam basically giving Tibet away, maybe next he’ll cave to Putin and give Alaska back. Or California and Texas to the Mexican catels. Louisiana purchase back to France? What an absolute waste of space that moron is.
“maybe next he’ll cave to Putin and give Alaska back. Or California and Texas to the Mexican catels. Louisiana purchase back to France?”
Shhh canuck66, someone might think it’s a good idea!!
CBC was saying that this puts pressure on Canada to take action on climate change.
OK, how about we agree to match whatever China does. I’d go along with that.