Obama Travels to Europe to Blame USA for Climate Change, ‘One of the enemies we will be fighting at this conference is cynicism’
(USA Today) –
President Obama urged his fellow world leaders on Monday to reach a landmark
deal to curb global warming before it dooms the planet.
“I come here
personally as the leader of world’s biggest economy and second biggest
emitter to say that America not only acknowledges its role in climate
change but embraces doing something about it,” Obama said.
Speaking at the
opening session of a United Nations conference attended by 196
nations, he said the “old” arguments for inaction on (climate change) had been
broken. “One of the enemies we
will be fighting at this conference is cynicism. The notion we can’t do
anything about climate change,” Obama said.
The conference, which
is scheduled to conclude on Dec. 11, aims to reach an accord
for reducing man-made greenhouses gases that cause global warming. Some 151 world leaders
converged on the exhibition halls at Le Bourget Airport just outside
the French capital amid extraordinarily tight security. Paris remains on edge
in the wake of the Nov. 13 coordinated terrorist attacks by Islamic State
militants in Paris that killed 130 people.
Opening the event on
Monday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that negotiators
had only days to finalize an agreement. He said that when the conference
ends, he wants to be able to say “our mission is accomplished.”
U.N. climate
chief Christina Figueres said in her opening remarks that ”never
before has a responsibility so great been in the hands of so few. The world is
looking to you.”
In his speech, Obama
said that he saw “the effects change first hand in Alaska, where
the sea is already swallowing villages and eroding shorelines” and “where
glaciers are melting at a pace unprecedented in modern times.” He called his summer
trip to Alaska a “preview of one possible future.”
The president added
that “we know the truth, that many nations have contributed little to
climate change but will be the first to feel its most destructive effects.
For some, island nations, climate change is a threat to their very existence.” David Waskow of
the World Resources Institute, an environmental organization, said that
Obama’s speech clearly conveyed what’s at stake, particularly for the most
vulnerable communities around the world.
“He underscored that
the United States is fully committed to leading by example in the
fight against climate change at home and here in Paris. His call for
cooperation not conflict is one that will resonate around the
world,” Waskow said. Obama arrived in Paris
late Sunday night when he paid a surprise visit to the Bataclan theater
where 90 people were killed in the attacks on Nov. 13. He placed a white
rose at a memorial at the scene.
In his address, he
praised Paris for carrying on with the conference despite the attacks and said
there was no greater rejection to those who wanted “to tear down the world.”
Earlier on Monday he
held bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Obama
emphasized the importance of China-U.S. efforts to fight climate change. Their
countries are the two biggest greenhouse gas producers. “Nowhere has our
coordination been more necessary and more fruitful”, he said.
China’s president,
like Obama, used his speech at the summit to acknowledge that, as the world’s
largest emitter, it needed to support developing countries financially and
technologically to combat global warming.
French
President Francois Hollande connected the fight against global
warming to the fight against extremism.
“What is at stake with
this climate conference is peace,” he said at the opening of the summit.
“The fight against
terrorism and the fight against climate change are two major global challenges
we must face,” he said.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/11/30/climate-talks-kick-off-france/76551062/
Comments
This is a
farce. There is no man-made climate
change except for the HAARP Weather Weapon that set up a low pressure area that
guided Hurricane Sandy into New Jersey. The scam is $100 billion a year in
carbon tax for the UN. All US citizens would pay this on their monthly electric
bills.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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