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This just in from Copenhagen after daylong talks between President Obama and key world leaders at the climate summit: a deal has been made.
A U.S. official tells the press the United States "has reached a meaningful agreement with China, India and South Africa."
We'll keep you posted, but check out our earlier coverage here and here.
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Walter Mitty
December 18, 2009 3:58 PM
Betcha it's fluff.
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Dorn76
December 18, 2009 4:16 PM in reply to Walter Mitty
Walt, buddy, I know you're a taciturn guy, but this is just an inance comment.
Seriously, dude, you gotta do better than that. It's an agreement in principle among World leaders. How could it be anything more than a wing and a prayer?
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Dorn76
December 18, 2009 4:18 PM in reply to Dorn76
"inane comment", that should read.
I give up, I can't even rant properly anymore I'm so fed up with this crap.
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CT Voter
December 18, 2009 4:23 PM in reply to Dorn76
O/T: think we're gonna get snow?
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Dorn76
December 18, 2009 4:28 PM in reply to CT Voter
For us on in Eatsern CT on the coast, could be a jackpot!
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CT Voter
December 18, 2009 5:06 PM in reply to Dorn76
You guys might get slammed. Here in western CT, I dunno. I'm just hoping it's actual snow and not that blechy sleet crap we've gotten a few times now.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
December 18, 2009 5:10 PM in reply to Dorn76
We've got several inches on the ground right now, here in the Piedmont.
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Walter Mitty
December 18, 2009 6:05 PM in reply to Dorn76
Still thinking this means anything?
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fbacon2
December 18, 2009 4:06 PM
If the climate deal doesn't have a public option, I want nothing to do with it.
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Indie Pro
December 18, 2009 4:07 PM in reply to fbacon2
now that's funny.
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fbacon2
December 18, 2009 4:11 PM in reply to Indie Pro
Something we can agree on?
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Indie Pro
December 18, 2009 4:18 PM in reply to fbacon2
absolutely. I truly LOL'ed
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CT Voter
December 18, 2009 4:21 PM in reply to Indie Pro
Me too.
I also did when looking at the pictures (and the identifying information) accompanying the story.
Thanks TPM for pointing out who was Obama and who was The Earth. . .
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fbacon2
December 18, 2009 4:24 PM in reply to CT Voter
Good Lord, you're right. Would've been better if they said, "Barack Obama (left) and the Earth."
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Indie Pro
December 18, 2009 4:25 PM in reply to CT Voter
Hilarious. I didn't notice that either. thanks!
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Viva!America!
December 18, 2009 4:28 PM in reply to CT Voter
LOL! OMG!
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Dorn76
December 18, 2009 4:29 PM in reply to Viva!America!
I'm still not convinced, that Blue Guy could be Obama...
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Kevin Sutton
December 18, 2009 4:42 PM in reply to Dorn76
He does look kind of like the Obama logo.
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geofu54
December 18, 2009 11:05 PM in reply to CT Voter
LOL! Thanks for a good laugh, that's the funniest thing I've seen here for quite some time. I guess I really needed it.
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Dorn76
December 18, 2009 4:11 PM in reply to fbacon2
Probably should scrap the entire process and start over.
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hollywood
December 18, 2009 4:10 PM
Hope to LIVING HELL there is something of substance here. We will all spend the rest of our lives watching the world melt, dry up, and burn to hell. The mass extinction of plants and animals is already happening.
What on Earth is more important than stopping this nightmare?
Absolutely nothing!
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MyMy
December 18, 2009 4:25 PM
Think back one year -- to Bush and the oilmen in charge. Even a rhetorical change of stance from our President will start a lot of good things happening.
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LisB
December 18, 2009 4:26 PM
Well, thanks to that AP report, I learned how to pronounce Zuma, if nothing else...
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Sailormarlowe
December 18, 2009 4:32 PM
Obama, an empty suit, makes a deal which is a hollow sham. The Chinese don't give a hoot about this pathetic faker, or his bankrupt country.
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Steaming Pile
December 18, 2009 4:46 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
GFY
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Humanity_Critic
December 18, 2009 4:56 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Your mother is an empty suit and a hollow sham, its too bad the good parts of you slid down her leg.
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Bull Schmitt
December 18, 2009 4:35 PM
We had to go to Europe to make a treaty with China, India and South Africa?
Doesn't sound like what they had in mind when this soiree was set up. Based on the countries involved, I'm guessing the agreement is going to be less strict than the goal, right?
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
December 18, 2009 5:14 PM in reply to Bull Schmitt
Europe would be rather centrally located between us, China, India and South Africa. WTF should we go to do it?
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Bull Schmitt
December 19, 2009 12:39 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
I'm just saying that (at the time the story broke, at least), I thought we were there to get a treaty with over 100 nations, not just three nations. And that for a comprehensive climate change/emissions agreement, you'd probably want the EU to be on board.
It may work out that way in the end, but when I made the comment, it seemed odd that a worldwide agreement had apparently whittled down to four players.
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masanf
December 18, 2009 5:20 PM
The deal is a sham. The Washington Post reports that there are no independent verification mechanisms and quoted a White House official as stating the "agreement" is "insufficient to combat climate change".
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FlownOver
December 18, 2009 10:54 PM in reply to masanf
So you want what – an invasion of China to enforce deep carbon emission cuts?
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Why oh why
December 18, 2009 5:21 PM
They agreed to do nothing and see what happens?
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Unmitigated Audacity
December 18, 2009 5:40 PM
You can bet this is just a face-saving sham for Obama. No way China and India will give up their nat'l sovereignty to some supra-nat'l organization. Nor should we.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
December 18, 2009 5:40 PM
Breaking details on the deal!
St. Charles Place, Indiana Avenue, Baltic and Oriental, in return for for Boardwalk, Ventnor and a couple of railroads.
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ondioline
December 18, 2009 5:56 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
I heard Jason Bay was joining the Golden State Warriors while Stephen Jackson was traded to the Cincinatti Reds...
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inokeah
December 18, 2009 7:02 PM
Send Hillery out the day before you sent out the candyman. No wonder the world hates us so much. We sent out our best liers and Hugo smell Sulfur. For the first time I am on the side of Sean Penn.
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DaddyD
December 18, 2009 10:02 PM
How can it be both "meaningful" and at the same time insufficient to combat the threat of global climate change? What does it 'mean' if it doesn't lead to results? I'll be curious to see what's so "meaningful" about this.
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