Hopenchangen!

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With time for an agreement running short, His Eloquency brings all his prodigious diplomatic skills to bear…

UK diplomatic sources confirmed there had been a major setback after China took huge offence at remarks by President Obama over the need to independently monitor every country carbon emissions.
In his speech President Obama said: “Without any accountability, any agreement would be empty words on a page” – remarks the Chinese interpreted as an attempt to humiliate them, prompting Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to return to his hotel.

It looks like they’ve finally settled on who best to blame –

“We’ve done what we can here,” a senior White House official in Copenhagen, Denmark, tells ABC News. “The Chinese are dug in on transparency and are refusing to let people know they’re living up to their end of the agreement.”

Andy Revkin is there on the ground and finally placing the word “Copenhagen” in its proper context;

Copenhagen insanity: Floods of reporters sprinting in opposite directions chasing rumors of Obama or UNFCCC press conference.

Whoops, maybe no presser after all…

1935 First bit of excitement here for a few hours. A rumour swept through the media centre that Mr Obama was going to give a press conference and almost immediately hundreds of journalists rushed through the Bella Centre into the main auditorium used for such events. Some 400 reporters and TV crews packed into the room but after about ten minutes two harassed Danish officals managed to get into the room to explain that no Obama press conference had been scheduled. Dozens of journalists left the room. Most stayed, just in case.

Oh dear.
Meanwhile, when you’ve lost Castro…. (link fixed)
(Follow Daniel Foster for continuing updates)
UPDATE: Turns out the threat of a no-show was just a tease. Obama leave Hopenchangen without a press conference? Surely, you jest!
UPDATE 2; Looks like someone’s gittin outa Dodge …“Obama leaving before final vote but feels “confident that we are moving in the direction of a significant accord.” Besides, he has to hussle back to DC before the blizzard hits.
And the money quote: “U.S. will not be legally bound by anything that occurred here today.”
Afterthought – As the One jets home to Washington, it’s ironic that Europe’s best hope for a weakened America turned out too weak to get the job done.

93 Replies to “Hopenchangen!”

  1. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m enjoying this immensely. A little something to embarrass everybody, and that’s as it should be with a monumental gong show like this.

  2. Copenhagen today, with snow falling outside, the warmies cling to their religion.
    The warmest Dec 18 in history was 7C in 2003, the coldest was -7C in 2005.
    Today is was -3.
    In the face of this, they still squeal their doctrine and pronounce doom for mankind.
    If Harper signs anything, he will regret it.

  3. Barry The One is desperate for an agreement on something before he flies home from Hopenchangen. As the rumours fly fast and thick in the Danish capital (about 3:30 pm eastern time), The One is supposedly having a meeting with the Chinese to try to patch things up. If there is no agreement, it will be the second time Barry has come home empty handed from Scandinavia. His first failure was putting his prestige on the line to get the Olympic games for Chicago. Just how much prestige does Barry have in the bank?

  6. Well transparency was Canada’s bottom line as well. If we are letting somene else monitor our emissions then everyone else should as well.
    If it breaks up over an issue like that, then you know something is wrong.

  7. There will be an agreement signed, all this is just theatre (Think WWF Wrestling) This BS was agreed to long ago and the whole deal is just smoke and mirrors to usher in a New World Order and you can bet your A$$ that our PM will sign on for it. As heart breaking as it is. That having been said, I really, really hope I’m wrong but I doubt that I am.
    As much as I don’t like to see it, what can one person do. We are going to give away control of our own country to some UN Agency that will have the ability to punish Canadians, taxation will go up big time and the cost for basic utilities and fuel will climb.
    I Europe, with the public transit systems they have, driving a car really isn’t necessary. In Canada, for a tremendous pile of us, there is no public transit to get around and cars are necessary as the distances are too great for bicycle or walking. UN!! UGH!!!

  8. JMD writes:
    Just how much prestige does Barry have in the bank?
    As much as the Left in the U.S. is willing to continue to ascribe to Him, I would guess.  There’s always a way to spin it so that failure is deflected and blame is cast elsewhere.  How many people actually believe that the U.S. contingent did not know that His words would piss off the Chinese, and indeed, were probably chosen precisely for that effect?  I knew that demanding transparency and third-party verification of Chinese efforts would piss the Chinese off, and I’m not exactly Mr. International Diplomatic Wisdom.
    The U.S. Administration has never had any intentions of going along with the Gong Show.  This “gaffe” was their way of engineering an out and (hopefully) trying to deflect blame for the failure onto the Chinese.
    It’s a convenient gift to all those nations who were in Hopenchangen just for the optics (i.e., most of the Western/Northern ones).  My only concern?
    Pissing off the Chinese is really not that good an idea.  But perhaps it’s better than the alternatives, and for all we know, the whole thing may have been staged.  Wouldn’t put it past ’em.
    Garth

  9. I think the chinese just went back to their hotel rooms.
    “hey Bejing , pull Ballack’s roan!!!”

  10. Can you imagine those reporters running around like a pack of headless chickens for a non news conference. Slamming into each other and slipping on the ice.
    I say, bring on the Zambonis.

  11. You go,Ugo: O’great satan, si.
    Farce or comedy?
    …-
    “At Copenhagen, Chávez Suggests Obama is the Devil
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference today in Copenhagen, and suggested that President Obama is the devil.
    Chávez said that “the Kyoto Protocol cannot be declared dead or extinguished, which is what the US pretends to do. Which is why (President) Evo (Morales of Bolivia) tells a great truth: If Obama, Nobel War Prize, said here, by the way, it smells of sulfur here. It smells of sulfur. It keeps smelling of sulfur in this world. The Nobel War Prize has just said here that he came to act. Well, then show it, sir, don’t leave by the back door, eh? Do everything you need to do for the US to adhere to the Kyoto Protocol, and let’s respect Kyoto, and empower Kyoto, and respond to the world in a transparent fashion.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410696/posts

  12. “Harper and crew are wonderfully silent. They must know what trouble is in store for them if they play along with this idiocy.”
    There is a famous Napolean quote to the effect “when your enemy is making terrible mistakes, keep out of his way”.
    Our PMSH is a wise negotiator on our behalf.
    The biggest joke now is that Barry might have to scoot early on AF1 because a really big snow storm is moving into the DC area with forecasts of 1-2 feet of snow.

  13. Obama will sign any climate deal, no matter how meaningless — just as he’ll sign any health bill. Appearance is the only thing that matters.
    Copenhagen is a pathetic joke. Anyone not ideologically invested can see that.

  14. I was try to come up with one word to describe the Copenhagen Conference. Debacle, circus, travesty, fiasco…
    I finally ditched the nouns and went with an adjective: Obscene.

  16. It’s a joke like playing Russian Roulette with an auto pistol is a joke.
    These guys are serious about taking control of the world. They couldn’t do it through Socialism, now they’re going to do it through Global Warming.

  17. I’m hoping Harper will do the right thing for the majority of Canadians; i.e., when in doubt, do nothing. And what could be more in doubt than this whole climate issue?

  18. Efforts to combat “global warming” are merely window dressing for yet another attempt at instituting socialism on a world-wide scale. That’s what this whole effort is all about. George Monbiot is not some lonely radical who isn’t being heard. His admonitions for a green, radical Marxist world are widely supported within the green movement.
    The MSM doesn’t emphasize his comments very much because this interferes with their goal of sugar-coating the green message. They want you to believe that a green world is all about riding the bus, recycling and other relatively painless activities. What they don’t want to tell you is that being forced to live in a windowless, super-insulated cubicle by some green commissar is what you’d have to put up with if you want an 80% cut in emissions over the next forty years.

  19. It’s all too hilarious really!
    Over 100 socialist countries all trying to figure out how to spend somebody else’s money and the Hildebeest and Obozo running around offering to pay out billions that they would end up having to borrow from China,who are one of the many socialist countries demanding money!
    It is to laugh!

  20. A Spector is haunting MaO’bama.
    …-
    “Even a Nobel Prize winner can’t bluff China”
    Norman Spector
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/spector-vision/even-a-nobel-prize-winner-cant-bluff-china/article1405038/
    …-
    “Failures At Home Make Obama Powerless Abroad, And The Chinese Know It
    Norman Spector at Canada’s Globe & Mail correctly sizes up Obama and Copenhagen from the Chinese perspective
    The Chinese, who’ve been negotiating for a heck of a lot longer than the United States has been on the map, are fully aware of President Barack Obama’s stunning political weakness at the end of his first year in office.
    They also understand, as does Canada, the inconvenient truth that Bill Clinton and Al Gore did not even attempt to have the Kyoto Protocol ratified by the U.S. Senate — and there’s no assurance this time either, as can be seen in the protracted debate over health care.
    And, as the chief banker of the United States, they will understand that the mega-billions Hillary Clinton put on the table yesterday were pure fluff, intended primarily to divide the Group of 77 in advance of the President’s arrival in Copenhagen.
    Copenhagen is shaping up to be another Olympic disaster for Obama. There’s a very good chance that he’ll come home with nothing, having exposed to other world leaders that his Nobel Prize, ultimately, isn’t good for much.
    One problem is that the US is broke, which is not his fault.
    But he’s also spread his political so thin, between healthcare, climate change, saving the economy, and reforming Wall Street, it would appear there’s a good chance none of it will get done.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410537/posts

  22. The wonderful words were spoken: “Not legally binding agreement” Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!!!
    What’s that sound? Why it’s the sound of lefty heads exploding and normal folks dancing is what it is!!!
    I’m wrong and glad that I was.

  23. Obongo should go out to the mermaid in the Copulagen harbor for his press conference, that would drown all of the moronic media jackasses just trying to get a socialist soundbite, but with all this warming maybe the harbor is froze over, we know how this all works. When the Chinese boss called over to Obongo at the meeting he said “go ahead Jintao, I’m all ears” drums please.

  24. Accountability sounds so funny coming from Obama.
    The Chinese are appalling brats. Every time they don’t get their way, they throw their hands into the air like babies. Mao would be proud.

  25. Fred: “The biggest joke now is that Barry might have to scoot early on AF1 because a really big snow storm is moving into the DC area with forecasts of 1-2 feet of snow.”
    ===============================
    That would be THE most exquisite ending to the most bizarre spectacle I have witnessed in my lifetime (60+ years). What would Barry and Shillary do about that?

  26. “The biggest joke now is that Barry might have to scoot early on AF1 because a really big snow storm is moving into the DC area with forecasts of 1-2 feet of snow.”
    Well known and peer reviewed scientists have consensus that the snow that is about to fall in Washington, is warm snow, proving without doubt that the sky is falling.

  27. Kate,
    euphoric media declare at the hands of THE ONE,
    “meaningful” deal reached.
    I used quotes, because the word meaningful has become gospel, for it is the One who so sayeth.
    I’ve got it up.
    (or you can just google “copenhagen” and the word “meaningful” will scream out at you)

  28. All we need is one more year. If this Copenhagen fiasco produces nothing,by the time the party in Mexico City starts up,there should be enough evidence to show the scam for what it is. Kudos to Harper,and I hope Layton,May, and the rest fall on their swords.

  29. Is it just me or did anyone else notice that in recent speeches, Obama called for a victory in dealing with climate change where there shouldn’t be any adversaries, but did not call for a victory in Afghanistan where there are adversaries?
    Thought I saw that committments won’t be legally binding. If so – good news. Replaces Kyoto with nothing. The world wins.

  30. Excellent. Now that our leaders have assuaged their tender consciences by committing masses of non-existent taxpayer’s money to that corrupt, money-swallowing maw we call the third world, they can take their limousines from their five-star hotels to their waiting privates jets and try to forget that this obscene debacle ever occurred.
    And so will I.

  33. ARE THESE PEOPLE INSANE? Or are they just plain RETARDED?!! China is still a dictatorship, so is Cuba, Venezuela is well on its way to becoming one, and so are a whole slew of countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America on the “Global” agenda.
    One thing a dictator will NOT do is allow someone else to DICTATE to him/her even if the dictator-in-training happens to be the Hollywood and TV talk show darling, U.S. President Barack Obama.
    ricardo

  35. CBC has Obama on,with a banner underneath saying,’countries have reached a consensus’. Ironic,isn’t it,soon I expect consensus to replace ‘sweet F all’ in our language.

  36. Wahoo!
    Yippee!
    Hooray!
    While it’d be difficult to say how much SDA helped effect such an outcome, I believe there was a material impact.

  38. PMSH is on cbc newsworld rioght now. The gist of his words so far is that OUR economy trumps questioable science… I’d love to see that polar bear commercial with Gore’s and Suzuki’s faces photoshopped onto them.”Every time a realist is heard,another idealist dies”.

  39. Well Bob Rae, good news, no? Looks like your rich uncle Mao Strong can keep the heat on in his luxury condo in Beijing after all.

  42. So the Uberwonder man-god got his pose as a Lowerer of World Temperatures and then flies out early to avoid the bad weather – read cold and snow.

  43. Jack Layton looks like he’s sitting on a pineapple when he’s talking to that idiot Solomon on the so called CBC.
    So that’s a good sign.
    Jack thinks we’re not enough like Europe, too bad he hasn’t looked at what the effect the Kyoto treaty had on Europe.
    Soloman even gives him a bit of a spanking for getting too carried away.

  44. This agreement is meaningless, not meaningful.
    Anyone who has experience in diplomat-speak will recognize it as such.
    Put on a brave face and get the hell out of Dodge
    before the masses figure it out.

  46. Can’t recall a post this giddy since Dion’s taped response to pro-roguing parliament.
    Realistically, could we have even imagined a better ending to this?
    The best possible post script: China refusing to buy US debt for a month.

  49. To the dizzy-from-spinning CBC: “Countries have reached a consensus in Copenhagen” has as much credibility as “scientists have reached a consensus on anthropogenic global warming”.
    I will have a good Christmas party tonight gloating over the corpse of Copenhagen.

  50. Ignatieff talking to Evan Soloman on CBC as I write: He’s chippy, his answers are cliche-ridden, his attitude is basically “leave me alone, stop hounding me, I know who I am and if you don’t, too bad.”
    “This has been a very, very tough year.”
    Boo hoo hoo.

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