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| Clinton Says Bush Is 'Flat Wrong' on Kyoto |
| 2005-12-09 |
| And "Ah did not have sex with that women". MONTREAL - Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others Friday that the Bush administration is "flat wrong" in claiming that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to fight global warming would damage the U.S. economy. With a "serious disciplined effort" to develop energy-saving technology, he said, "we could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets in a way that would strengthen and not weaken our economies." A "serious disciplined effort"? Yeah, he'd know all about that, wouldn't he? Clinton, a champion of the Kyoto Protocol, the existing emissions-controls agreement opposed by the Bush administration, spoke in the final hours of a two-week U.N. climate conference at which Washington has come under heavy criticism for its stand. Most delegations appeared ready Friday to leave an unwilling United States behind and open a new round of negotiations on future cutbacks in the emissions blamed for global warming. Okay. Goodbye. We'll wave. "There's no longer any serious doubt that climate change is real, accelerating and caused by human activities," said Clinton, whose address was interrupted repeatedly by enthusiastic applause. "We are uncertain about how deep and the time of arrival of the consequences, but we are quite clear they will not be good." Al Gore told me... Canadian officials said the U.S. delegation was displeased with the last-minute scheduling of the Clinton speech. But U.S. delegation chief Paula Dobriansky issued a statement saying events like Clinton's appearance "are useful opportunities to hear a wide range of views on global climate change." Even this idiot's. The former president spoke between the official morning and afternoon plenary sessions of the conference, representing the William J. Clinton Foundation, which includes a climate-change program in its activities. I can only imagine what other "activities" his Foundation specializes in. In the real work of the conference, delegates from more than 180 countries bargained behind closed doors until 6:30 a.m. Friday, making final adjustments to an agreement to negotiate additional reductions in carbon dioxide and other gases after 2012, when the Kyoto accord expires. Efforts by host-country Canada and others to draw the United States into the process were failing. The Bush administration says it favors a voluntary approach, not global negotiations, to deal with climate issues. Sorry about that. See ya, ya hosers. "It's such a pity the United States is still very much unwilling to join the international community, to have a multilateral effort to deal with climate change," said Kenya's Emily Ojoo Massawa, chair of the African group of nations at the two-week long conference. Kenya: Economy - overview: The regional hub for trade and finance in East Africa, Kenya has been hampered by corruption, notably in the judicial system, and by reliance upon several primary goods whose prices have remained low. In 1997, the IMF suspended Kenya's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Program due to the government's failure to maintain reforms and curb corruption. A severe drought from 1999 to 2000 compounded Kenya's problems, causing water and energy rationing and reducing agricultural output. As a result, GDP contracted by 0.2% in 2000. The IMF, which had resumed loans in 2000 to help Kenya through the drought, again halted lending in 2001 when the government failed to institute several anticorruption measures. Despite the return of strong rains in 2001, weak commodity prices, endemic corruption, and low investment limited Kenya's economic growth to 1.2%. Growth lagged at 1.1% in 2002 because of erratic rains, low investor confidence, meager donor support, and political infighting up to the elections. In the key 27 December 2002 elections, Daniel Arap MOI's 24-year-old reign ended, and a new opposition government took on the formidable economic problems facing the nation. In 2003, progress was made in rooting out corruption, and encouraging donor support, with GDP growth edging up to 1.7%. Population below poverty line: 50% (2000 est.) Unemployment rate: 40% (2001 est.) Looks like you should have a few more priorities then Kyoto, Emily. Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, was instrumental in final negotiations on the 1997 treaty protocol that was initialed in the Japanese city of Kyoto and mandates cutbacks in 35 industrialized nations of emissions of carbon dioxide and five other gases by 2012. You mean Al "Kiss of Death" Gore? That Al Gore? A broad scientific consensus agrees that these gases accumulating in the atmosphere, byproducts of automobile engines, power plants and other fossil fuel-burning industries, contributed significantly to the past century's global temperature rise of 1 degree Fahrenheit. Continued warming is expected to disrupt the global climate. I can't see across the parking lot. There's about ten inches of snow and it's still coming down. Maybe if I get a Secret Service detail with about 20 Suburbans, I can get home tonight. Just like Clinton and Gore used to. In the late 1990s the U.S. Senate balked at ratifying Kyoto, and the incoming President Bush in 2001 formally renounced the accord, saying it would harm the U.S. economy. Another reason we have to be grateful that we never heard the title "President Gore". The Montreal meeting, attended by almost 10,000 delegates, environmentalists, business representatives and others, was the first annual U.N. climate conference since Kyoto took effect in February. The protocol's language requires its member nations to begin talks now on emissions controls after 2012, when the Kyoto regime expires. The Canadians and others also saw Montreal as an opportunity to draw the outsider United States into the emission-controls regime, through discussions under the broader 1992 U.N. climate treaty. No thanks. Tell Bill to enjoy those Montreal strip joints. But the Americans have repeatedly rejected the idea of rejoining future negotiations to set post-2012 emissions controls. The Canadians continued to press for agreement early Friday, offering the U.S. delegation vague, noncommittal language by which Washington would join only in "exploring" "approaches" to cooperative action. We'll pass on the Kool Aid, thanks. While rejecting mandatory targets, the Bush administration points to $3 billion-a-year U.S. government spending on research and development of energy-saving technologies as a demonstration of U.S. efforts to combat climate change. Nope. Don't want to hear it. Todays Topic: How BushHitler will kill us all. |
| Posted by:Velvet Al-Jones |
| #8 *pfffft* (sprays air freshener) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-12-09 23:30 |
| #7 Clinton brought prosperity, Bush gives us corporate welfare and lies, lookit how he just gave more tax breaks to the rich and cut your dumbass military budget. You're fools. |
| Posted by: Gravirt Flineth9460 2005-12-09 23:03 |
| #6 Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others Friday that the Bush administration is "flat wrong" in claiming that.. This buffoon simply has no phuquing class. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-09 21:20 |
| #5 "There's no longer any serious doubt that climate change is real, accelerating and caused by human activities," said Clinton, OKAY, please explain why there is clear evidence of "Global Warming" on the planet MARS |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-12-09 21:01 |
| #4 Dear Mr. Clinton, How come you didn't submit the Kyoto Treaty to the Senate for a up or down vote? Maybe because during the summer of 1997, the Senate voted 95 to 0 to assert its opposition to any treaty that endangers the U.S. economy and spares developing countries from constraints imposed on developed nations. Seems to have slipped your mind. In Kyoto, a leading Democratic member of the observer delegation agreed that the treaty was not acceptable to the Senate in its current form. "What we have here is not ratifiable in the Senate in my judgment," Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/climate/stories/clim121197b.htm Now run along and interview some more interns. At least you demonstrate the ability to follow through with women subordinate to you. |
| Posted by: Uninenter Ulereng5655 2005-12-09 19:46 |
| #3 Let us not forget that Kyoto came about during the Clinton administrations time in office. The Senate voted to kill it and Clinton put it in the drawer instead of fighting to push the protocal through. All Bush did was admit that it was dead instead of pretending and that is "flat wrong". Methinks Clinton is trying to rewrite history, again. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-12-09 17:08 |
| #2 Clinton Says Bush Is 'Flat Wrong' on Kyoto College girls eat that sh*t up. He is so going to get laid. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-12-09 16:54 |
| #1 Billy knows he can say what he likes because he's an Ex-Prez. Fortunately, nobody cares what he says anymore. Because he's an Ex-Prez. |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-12-09 16:49 |