Geoff Keller, you asked “I’d like to know in what context Obama made that statement. This article doesn’t mention that.”

Here is the context:

China completely sabotaged the summit, and they did a brilliant, clever, first-rate job of it. The timing of the Hadley/CRU email leaks helped them a lot, as most people now know that CO2 cannot warm the planet at virtually any concentration, but China’s ploy would have worked even without this, as it were, climate-gate Godsend. Still, it was not helpful that the warming fraud was let out of the bag at just the wrong time for them to suppress the truth.

This article explains it pretty well: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/22/copenhagen-climate-change-mark-lynas
but for some reason they make it sound like China did a BAD thing, which is weird, but whatever.

First, China “accidentally” leaked the Danish Text of the final treaty.
http://dprogram.net/2009/12/09/cop15-a-neo-colonial-climate-regime-revealed/
This caused nearly all of the Third-world nations to run for the hills, because in this secret draft it was revealed that they would be destroyed by the Dreaded IMF rather than being fattened by the UN Blue Cash Cow, as they had been falsely told.

Then, China refused to meet with Obama except through extremely low level bureaucrats. Obama was widely reported pacing up and down the halls muttering about China. Then the next meeting would happen, and instead of Wen, Obama would be talking with the Assitant Minister of Fishing Boat Licenses and what have you.

Eventually, the inept and arrogant Obama took the bait and lost his cool. He barged into a private meeting and DEMANDED that his self the holy highness of haughtiness be treated with the respect that should be due to such an outstandingly larger than life personage and nobel laureate of peace. China giggled. The rest is history.

The only thing I can’t figure out is why Obama is catching most of the heat for this rather than China. To me it signifies two things:

1. The truth makes China seem much too powerful, and reveals that Obama is and always was an insignificant nothing
2. Obama is about to be thrown under the bus by his own people

Wow. Just wow! But listen kids, never mind all this Obama stuff, it’s just fluff. The important thing to take home from this is that there is not one shred of scientific evidence supporting the claims of the warm-mongers. Here’s the science:

31,486 American Scientists signed petition against Global Warming Science Fraud
http://www.can-you-hear-us-now.com/2009/12/httpwwwbloggercom20httpnewnewpatriotjou.html
“It’s not easy to get on this petition. 9,029 are PhD’s which is 15 times more scientists than are involved with the United Nations IPCC process. The petitioner’s qualifications are of the highest repute and scientific training. Petitioners must have at least a BSC in seven selected categories e.g. real sciences like atmospheric and environmental sciences, chemistry, biology, medicine, computer sciences, engineering and physics.

“There’s no hiding who they are: Name, degree, experience all clearly listed and what they signed and available on their website.

“As Professor Seitz, states, in his Petition Project letter which speaks of this impending threat to all humanity, “It is especially important for America to hear from its citizens who have the training necessary to evaluate the relevant data and offer sound advice.”

“The purpose of the Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of “settled science” and an overwhelming “consensus” in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climatological damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis”.

Pwned!
The scientists have spoken. But will we listen?

Obama is a con artist. He wrecked Copenhagen. I think his method was a deliberate attempt to make it impossible to reach any meaningful accord. Now the big corporations have the green light to continue destroying the world.

Obama can’t find the money to save Africa?! Wow! Brother, Kenya spare a dime? Guess not.

Isn’t this approach to global warming like a group of people drowning underwater, instead of swimming directly to the surface, stopping to have a conference about whether to do it. And then, to be practical, economical, judicious, prudent, thrifty, and frugal about it, deciding to swim only half way to the surface.

Remember the good old days when Democrats were happy to be Democrats and Republicans were grand on being Republicans; before Democrats apparently now so much need to be Republicans, and Republicans, of course, not to be out right-flanked, aspire to be something not to far short of Nazis.

If the defense for this nonsense is good business; is it really good business to destroy the world, handing the Republicans back the White House in the process (accelerating said destruction)?

Yes, Obama trashed the talks, and proved once again that “hope” and any sense of US responsibility for it’s place in the world was completely dead. He could have done otherwise. 

The Climate Justice activists are to be commended—it is us who must shut down Canada’s tar Sands, and otherwise work very hard to leave fossil fuels in the ground and stop the chemicalization and downright environmental destruction of our world.  Evo Morales had very good things to say, and I support him.

One of the best results of COP15 were the interviews with people from around the world by Amy Goodman and others with Democracy Now! When people can connect and unite to deal with injustice, surprising developments can happen. It’s a continuous struggle for fairness versus greed, but think Gandhi, unions, women who could not vote in 1920, Southern African Americans who could not vote in 1964, and many many other changes. Democracy Now! has created an archive of interviews with people who had taken action locally but in the COP15 Democracy Now videos can speak to each other and to people around the world. Their work, and their direct, clear appeals in the Democracy Now! interviews will galvanize awareness and extraordinary action - they have the same vibes I felt in the early 60s from Africans under colonialism, African Americans in the South, students in teach-ins about Viet Nam…

America won’t sign on to meaningful climate change action not because the economy will suffer but to maintain it’s military hegemony in the world. The military/industrial/congressional complex of the USA pollutes and desecrates the world’s environment more than any other industry and won’t stop for any reason. Tanks,jet fighters, Humvees, most naval vessels, and their supports can only survive on fossil fuels. How much do you think the military budget would have to increase if it had to include a carbon tax?

I followed the whole two weeks of the conference via DemocracyNow.  On the first day, I posted a link to DemocracyNow http://www.democracynow.org on an evironmental/conference live blog on the Guardian.co.uk.  From the next day thru now, I have not been able to post on the Guardian, anyplace.  I have sent emails to various parts of the site asking why when I hit the “post comment” button, my comment just goes off into the e-void and disappears.  The answers from 3 places at the site say they got my message, “look at guidelines on moderating policies, if ( my) comment was removed.  Comments are not going up, not ever had one removed.  Two writers for the Guardian were on DemocracyNow at the end of the conference and the Mon. after it, respectively.
DemocracyNow’s coverage was good, but I think they got caught off-guard, as did the surprised attendees who got locked out near the end.  Copenhagen lost a lot of creds in re free speech, kind of like NYC during the 2004 Republican National Convention (which is still in ongoing litigation by the persons who were “preventively” arrested).

Obama’s disruption was a display of an audacity that is matched only by that first audacity that introduced Death into this world.
The attitude flaunted in Denmark by the wealthy destroyers of Earth’s habitability defies the loosest construal of “rational”: to even presume that humanity can somehow police Earth to respect a humanly-tolerable upper thermal parameter of 2 degrees is unforgivably ignorant insanity!! Paradoxically, that presumption tragically demonstrates that we fail to see the audacity that anchors our own destructive capacities - that we can decide that Earth should not be counted among the living beings occupying the universe, and may deal with Earth as only a resource, a mosaic of rapaciously exploitable chunks of property!
As Oppenheimer so aptly remarked about the power we wield with nuclear weapons, we should remark about the audacity displayed by humanity in Denmark: not Obama’s audacity of hope, but the audacity of audacities - we have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

“it inspired a new generation of activists to join what has emerged as a mature, sophisticated global movement for climate justice.”

It will be this new generation of activists that persist with climate change controls worldwide, working in the biggest polluting countries to curb emissions and change energy producing, and in smaller countries working against environmental hazards.  Governments have so many concerns they will not concentrate to get thngs done without constant prodding from the brassroots.  Worldwide cooperation has begun and knowledge has been shared.It’s a beginning.