- "America has made our choice. That's why I come
here today, not to talk, but to act!"
- --Would-Be Dictator Barack Obama, at Copenhagen Dec
18, 2009
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- Click to Watch
- cnn - obama@copenhagen - complete climate change...
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9SSb-1XOLU
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- Pelosi's Orders to the Senate: Cap 'n Trade,
"Will Get Through the United States Senate . . . will be Signed
by the President"
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- "We've talked enough, it's time to act" .
. . . Regarding the Cap 'n Trade bill stalled in the Senate Pelosi said
(video at 0.58) "It will get through. I just met with the
ministers of the European Union and I want to remove all doubt. This
Bill will get through the United States Senate and it will pass the Congress,
will be signed by the President in this Congress which means in the year
2010. --Zionist Commissar Nancy Pelosi
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- Click to Watch
- cnn - copenhagen - pelosi: climate bill will pass
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdJMlYQTmuw&feature=channel
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- December 18, 2009
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- Transcript: Obama's Speech In Copenhagen
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- Remarks Of President Barack Obama - As Prepared For Telepromter
Delivery
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- December 18, 2009
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- Good morning. It's an honor to for me to join this distinguished
group of leaders from nations around the world. We come together here in Copenhagen
because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people. You
would not be here unless you like me were convinced that this
danger is real. This is not fiction, this is science. Unchecked,
climate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economies,
and our planet. That much we know.
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- So the question before us is no longer the nature of
the challenge the question is our capacity to meet it. For while the
reality of climate change is not in doubt, our ability to take collective
action hangs in the balance.
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- I believe that we can act boldly, and decisively, in
the face of this common threat. And that is why I have come here today.(Note
here Obama added, "That's why I come here today, not to
talk, but to act".)
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- As the world's largest economy and the world's second
largest emitter, America bears our share of responsibility in addressing
climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility. That is
why we have renewed our leadership within international climate negotiations,
and worked with other nations to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. And that
is why we have taken bold action at home by making historic investments
in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency
in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to
transform to a clean energy economy.
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- These actions are ambitious, and we are taking them not
simply to meet our global responsibilities. We are convinced that changing
the way that we produce and use energy is essential to America's economic
future that it will create millions of new jobs, power new industry,
keep us competitive, and spark new innovation. And we are convinced that
changing the way we use energy is essential to America's national security,
because it will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and help us deal
with some of the dangers posed by climate change.
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- So America is going to continue on this course of action
no matter what happens in Copenhagen. But we will all be stronger
and safer and more secure if we act together. That is why it is in
our mutual interest to achieve a global accord in which we agree to take
certain steps, and to hold each other accountable for our commitments.
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- After months of talk, and two weeks of negotiations,
I believe that the pieces of that accord are now clear.
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- First, all major economies must put forward decisive
national actions that will reduce their emissions, and begin to turn the
corner on climate change. I'm pleased that many of us have already
done so, and I'm confident that America will fulfill the commitments
that we have made: cutting our emissions in the range of 17 percent by
2020, and by more than 80 percent by 2050 in line with final legislation.
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- Second, we must have a mechanism to review whether
we are keeping our commitments, and to exchange this information in
a transparent manner. These measures need not be intrusive, or infringe
upon sovereignty. They must, however, ensure that an accord is credible,
and that we are living up to our obligations. For without such
accountability, any agreement would be empty words on a page.
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- Third, we must have financing that helps developing countries
adapt, particularly the least-developed and most vulnerable to climate
change.America will be a part of fast-start funding that will ramp up to
$10 billion in 2012. And, yesterday, Secretary Clinton made it clear
that we will engage in a global effort to mobilize $100 billion in financing
by 2020, if and only if it is part of the broader accord
that I have just described.
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- Mitigation. Transparency. And financing. It is a clear
formula one that embraces the principle of common but differentiated
responses and respective capabilities. And it adds up to a significant
accord one that takes us farther than we have ever gone before as
an international community.
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- The question is whether we will move forward together,
or split apart. This is not a perfect agreement, and no country would get
everything that it wants. There are those developing countries that want
aid with no strings attached, and who think that the most advanced nations
should pay a higher price. And there are those advanced nations who think
that developing countries cannot absorb this assistance, or that the world's
fastest-growing emitters should bear a greater share of the burden.
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- We know the fault lines because we've been imprisoned
by them for years. But here is the bottom line: we can embrace
this accord, take a substantial step forward, and continue to refine
it and build upon its foundation. We can do that, and everyone who
is in this room will be a part of an historic endeavor one that makes
life better for our children and grandchildren.
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- Or we can again choose delay, falling back into the same
divisions that have stood in the way of action for years. And we will be
back having the same stale arguments month after month, year after year
all while the danger of climate change grows until it is irreversible.
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- There is no time to waste. America has made our
choice. We have charted our course, we have made our commitments,
and we will do what we say. Now, I believe that it's time for the
nations and people of the world to come together behind a common purpose.
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- We must choose action over inaction; the future over
the past with courage and faith, let us meet our responsibility to
our people, and to the future of our planet. Thank you.
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- From http://businessinfocus.blogspot.com/2009/12/
- transcript-obamas-speech-in-copenhagen.html
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- CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/18/obama.copenhagen.transcript/
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