http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2009/12/18/what-if-they-didnt-give-a-news-conference-and-everybody-came/ Global environmental challenges Wed, 22 May 2013 08:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2009/12/18/what-if-they-didnt-give-a-news-conference-and-everybody-came/comment-page-1/#comment-343902 eddieblack Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:00:59 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/?p=15707#comment-343902 Today the representatives in Copenhagen will announce they have agreed to put off a legally binding accord until the end of 2010. One more year of business as usual. Two thirds of the one billion dollars in Obama's stimulus package will be executed by foreign corporations to develop wind production in the U.S.. Neither Wall Street or the energy industry are interested in alternative energy. I think passing climate legislation through the Senate will be harder than passing health care reform. I am curious as to how any U.S. President can guarantee any international legally binding agreement on climate? Today the representatives in Copenhagen will announce they have agreed to put off a legally binding accord until the end of 2010. One more year of business as usual. Two thirds of the one billion dollars in Obama’s stimulus package will be executed by foreign corporations to develop wind production in the U.S.. Neither Wall Street or the energy industry are interested in alternative energy. I think passing climate legislation through the Senate will be harder than passing health care reform. I am curious as to how any U.S. President can guarantee any international legally binding agreement on climate?

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