U.S. formally embraces Copenhagen climate deal

God help us!! Here we go again

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday formally notified the United Nations that it has embraced the Copenhagen Accord setting nonbinding goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that was negotiated last month.

Todd Stern, the top U.S. climate negotiator for the Obama administration, also gave notice that, as expected, it will aim for a 17 percent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming by 2020, with 2005 as the base year.

A final emissions reduction target will be submitted, the U.S. said, once the U.S. Congress enacts domestic legislation requiring carbon pollution cuts. But such legislation has an uncertain fate in the Senate.

From Obama's State of the Union:

Next, we need to encourage American innovation. Last year, we made the largest investment in basic research funding in history -– (applause) -- an investment that could lead to the world's cheapest solar cells or treatment that kills cancer cells but leaves healthy ones untouched. And no area is more ripe for such innovation than energy. You can see the results of last year's investments in clean energy -– in the North Carolina company that will create 1,200 jobs nationwide helping to make advanced batteries; or in the California business that will put a thousand people to work making solar panels.

(Unless with get our unions benefits under control, it does not matter what we produce or if our solar panels are the best in the world... they will be too expensive to compete.)

But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. (Applause.) It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. (Applause.) It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies. (Applause.) And, yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America. (Applause.)

(The carrot of Nuclear power, clean coal, and offshore drilling for oil and gas sounds great... so let's get going, or is this another one of those: I'll go through the federal budget line by line and cut costs and waste... not, or I'll close Gitmo my a week ago... not, or the promise of transparency... which also never happened. Obama has a long history of making promises in speeches that never happen.)

I am grateful to the House for passing such a bill last year. (Applause.) And this year I'm eager to help advance the bipartisan effort in the Senate. (Applause.)

(And I am grateful to the House for passing Cap and Trade regardless of what the people want, so I can move toward globalism and my socialist agenda.)

He just keeps daring us, pushing us and moving forward banking on the fact that we won't stop him... So today he gave Copenhagen, globalists and the UN a thumbs up... :-(