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December 12, 2008
Here's A Great Plan To Revive The US Economy
I just can't wait
POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will let President-elect Barack Obama sign up to a U.N. pact to fight global warming in late 2009 even if U.S. climate laws are not yet in place, U.S. Senator John Kerry predicted on Thursday.But Kerry, designated head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Poland that China, India and Russia would also have to promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions to win Senate blessing of any pact.
"It will be like the difference between night and day," Kerry, of Massachusetts, said of Obama's enthusiasm for action against climate change after what he said were eight years of inaction under President George W. Bush.
He told Reuters support in the United States for climate action was strong enough to let Obama sign up for emissions cuts under a U.N. pact to be agreed in Copenhagen in late 2009 even if the Senate had not by then agreed matching U.S. climate laws.
"We can have commenced the (domestic) legislative process, we don't have to have completed it," before agreeing to cuts under a U.N. treaty, he said.
President Bill Clinton agreed in 1997 to the U.N.'s existing Kyoto Protocol for cutting greenhouse gases until 2012 but never tried to get the pact ratified by a hostile Senate.
And by letting the Big 3 carmakers go belly up, why, just think of the carbon savings!
Hmm, and since JFK is over in Poland working on his carbon footprint I'm guessing all the Massachusetts employees of Chrysler, Ford and GM really appreciate his "fighting for their jobs" in the Senate, eh?
Posted by Mr. Bingley at December 12, 2008 07:36 AM