The Trouble With Obama's Non-Binding UN
Climate Plan?
It has already been tried, and it failed
The Obama administration is signaling that there will be not be a new climate
treaty. According to a report in Wednesday’s New York Times, the path to a
treaty has come to an end, 14 months before the Paris talks scheduled for next
year. Instead, the best deal on offer is a non-binding accord. There is a big
problem with this. It has already been tried, and it failed. --Rupert Darwall, National Review Online, 29 August 2014
President Obama’s election-year plan to win a new international climate change accord is making vulnerable Democrats nervous. The administration is in talks at the United Nations about a deal that would seek to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by “naming and shaming” governments that fail to take significant action. One Democratic strategist said the proposal would put swing-state candidates who are critical to the party keeping its Senate majority “in front of the firing squad.” “You're ... making it more difficult for them to win and certainty putting them in a position to lose,” the strategist said. --Timothy Cama, The Hill, 27 August 2014
A vulnerable House Democrat is slamming President Obama's reported effort to launch an international summit to address climate change without congressional input. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) says Obama's plans to get a "politically binding" international climate agreement endorsed by the United Nations next year is "fruitless" for a president whose popularity is lagging even at home. "It is fruitless for this Administration — or any Administration — to negotiate agreements with the rest of the world when it cannot even muster the support of the American people," Rahall said Wednesday in a statement. --Mike Lillis, The Hill, 27 August 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry said during his January 2013 confirmation hearings that he would be a “passionate advocate” on climate-change issues, and he’s living up to that promise. In a speech this month in Hawaii, Mr. Kerry called climate change “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now.” Not 10, 20 or 100 years from now—right now. If only Mr. Kerry were right. Unfortunately, America faces much bigger immediate challenges and threats than climate change. Our enemies around the world are intent on harming us—right now. America’s secretary of state should worry more about them and less about the Earth’s temperature decades from now. --John Barrasso, The Wall Street Journal, 29 August 2014
Virtually all of the research reports on polar bears over the last few years have contained good news. Who then is to blame for hyping the “polar bears are dying” meme? It’s easy to blame reporters for fanning the flames of hysteria – some of their copy on polar bears is truly over the top. Many news articles lack the application of common sense or even a modicum of fact checking. In a lot of cases, however, what’s happening is that science writers simply take everything that polar bear biologists and their co-authors say as gospel and reprint press releases word for word. --Susan Crockford, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 28 August 2014
President Obama’s election-year plan to win a new international climate change accord is making vulnerable Democrats nervous. The administration is in talks at the United Nations about a deal that would seek to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by “naming and shaming” governments that fail to take significant action. One Democratic strategist said the proposal would put swing-state candidates who are critical to the party keeping its Senate majority “in front of the firing squad.” “You're ... making it more difficult for them to win and certainty putting them in a position to lose,” the strategist said. --Timothy Cama, The Hill, 27 August 2014
A vulnerable House Democrat is slamming President Obama's reported effort to launch an international summit to address climate change without congressional input. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) says Obama's plans to get a "politically binding" international climate agreement endorsed by the United Nations next year is "fruitless" for a president whose popularity is lagging even at home. "It is fruitless for this Administration — or any Administration — to negotiate agreements with the rest of the world when it cannot even muster the support of the American people," Rahall said Wednesday in a statement. --Mike Lillis, The Hill, 27 August 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry said during his January 2013 confirmation hearings that he would be a “passionate advocate” on climate-change issues, and he’s living up to that promise. In a speech this month in Hawaii, Mr. Kerry called climate change “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now.” Not 10, 20 or 100 years from now—right now. If only Mr. Kerry were right. Unfortunately, America faces much bigger immediate challenges and threats than climate change. Our enemies around the world are intent on harming us—right now. America’s secretary of state should worry more about them and less about the Earth’s temperature decades from now. --John Barrasso, The Wall Street Journal, 29 August 2014
Virtually all of the research reports on polar bears over the last few years have contained good news. Who then is to blame for hyping the “polar bears are dying” meme? It’s easy to blame reporters for fanning the flames of hysteria – some of their copy on polar bears is truly over the top. Many news articles lack the application of common sense or even a modicum of fact checking. In a lot of cases, however, what’s happening is that science writers simply take everything that polar bear biologists and their co-authors say as gospel and reprint press releases word for word. --Susan Crockford, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 28 August 2014
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