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Obama on “man-made global warming”, 2008: “Delay is no longer an option”;  2009: Delay is the option

Posted by Joel Johannesen

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama, on the ever so urgent “man-made global warming”:
“Delay is no longer an option.”


Almost exactly a year later: Sun Nov 15, 2009, President Obama on the ever so urgent “man-made global warming”:

World leaders back delay to final climate deal

...French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said it was clear the main obstacle was the United States’ slow progress in defining its own potential emissions cuts. 

“The problem is the United States, there’s no doubt about that,” Borloo, who has coordinated France’s Copenhagen negotiating effort, told Reuters in an interview.

“It’s the world’s number one power, the biggest emitter (of greenhouse gases), the biggest per capita emitter and it’s saying ‘I’d like to but I can’t’. That’s the issue,” he said.


Posted by Joel Johannesen on 11/16/09 at 01:21 PM


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