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Kerry Tells China: 'Because of Climate Change in U.S. We Are Ending Any Funding' of 'Coal-Fired Power'
2015-05-19
[CNSNEWS] At a joint presser in Beijing yesterday with People's Republic of China Foreign Minister Wang Yi, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 said that the B.O. regime intends to cooperate closely with the PRC leading into a U.N. climate conference in Gay Paree in December and that the U.S. is "ending any funding" of coal-fired power projects.

President Barack Obama
It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person....
's fiscal 2016 budget proposal calls for increasing taxes on the coal industry by $4.252 billion from 2016-2025 while providing "refundable" tax credits to "renewable" energy projects such as solar and wind power facilities.

"There are three key meetings that we are all working on together to prepare for in order to build success," said Kerry. "One is the Security and Economic Dialogue that will take place in June in Washington. Two is the summit between President Xi and President B.O. to take place in September. And three is the global meeting that we are working on together regarding climate change in Gay Paree in December."

"The United States and China are also cooperating more closely than ever to address climate change, one of the greatest threats facing our planet today," said Kerry. "Last fall, our respective presidents came together to announce our countries' greenhouse gas commitments, the reductions, and we continue to call on other nations around the world to set their own ambitious targets. And we agreed this morning that as we get closer to the UN Climate Conference in Gay Paree later this year, the United States and China, the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters, will elevate our cooperation and coordination so that we can reach the kind of global agreement that we will need to ultimately address this threat."
Posted by:Fred

#10  Obama is merely obeying the wishes of his Mandarin masters. Surely they are very pleased with him. They get the industry. Their people get the jobs. They pollute worse than we ever did and the wind blows the pollution across the Pacific Ocean toward us, dropping mercury into the water as it goes. We get the shaft. And if they claim to be reducing their emissions remember who they are, remember who Kerry and Obama are, and how many times they've lied before. This is all by design.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-05-19 11:57  

#9  One article claims the Chinese decreased their coal imports 38%, their coal mining 6 (coal provided 66% of their primary energy supply) and increased their natural gas consumption 7% and oil consumption 4%, in just the past year. I don't believe it is possible for those numbers to be correct unless their total economic output has collapsed.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-05-19 11:41  

#8  A silver linings this a.m. is that Kerry didn't become POTUS back in 2004. Thanks you Swift Boat operators.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-05-19 09:22  

#7  TW, the poor will get 'free stuff' like free utilities and the rich will, of course be able to afford it, it's the middle class that's the intentional target of forced price increases to destroy their means of advancement and desperately trying to avoid from sliding into the 'lower' class.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-05-19 09:05  

#6  The Green Weenies are touting the fact that China has decreased it's use and mining of coal by 2.9%, thereby reducing CO2 emissions. They convent lyrics ignore the 5.9% increase in oil usage and the 4% increase in natural gas usage.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2015-05-19 08:32  

#5  WTF? Has the Donk Party cornered the market on stupidity? Will the race to the bottom ever cease with these yahoos? It is a race between dumping them out of government before they destroy what's left of the country.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-05-19 08:09  

#4  Amazing that the Chinese Foreign Minister was able to keep a straight face thru it all. Good Show!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-05-19 07:42  

#3  Why does President Obama hate the poor? If he can push this through -- via executive orders and regulations, one assumes -- the poor will be cold in the dark this winter, unable to pay their energy bills.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-05-19 06:48  

#2  Between you and that dumbfucking idiot in the whitehouse, is that what you mean by "we"?

Who is we?
Posted by: newc   2015-05-19 01:16  

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Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-19 00:48  

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