Obama’s Copenhagen Suicide Pact

By William R. Hawkins,American Thinker

In their joint message on climate change negotiations released Nov. 13,President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged "to reduce our own emissions by 80% by 2050 and endorse a global goal of reducing emissions by 50% by that year."The acceptance of disproportionate economic burdens is in accordance with the goals set last summer by the G-7 industrialized countries. It is a response to demands at the United Nations that such sacrifices are necessary to move negotiations forward in the face of disinterest and intransigence in the rest of the world.

At the opening of the U.N. climate conference in Barcelona on Nov. 2,Yvo de Boer,Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),concentrated his attacks on the Western nations who have been backing the march to a new climate treaty rather than the developing countries who have been blocking a truly global agreement. De Boer complained,"The targets of industrialized countries that are presently on the table are clearly not ambitious enough."

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