De Boer: "No Clear Sense Of Direction" At Chimp Climate Show - DOE Hack "Touched" By "Mood" Of Meet

[hatrack]

Gosh, isn't that just so special!

HONOLULU - The world's biggest emitters of global-warming greenhouse gases met behind closed doors on Wednesday for a US-sponsored conference, as protesters pointed up Hawaii's vulnerability to climate change.

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Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, stressed that time was short to come up with a plan and said delegates to the Hawaii meeting need to take the lead. By midday, he said there was "no clear sense of direction yet."

"Nothing got accomplished yet this morning," de Boer said in an interview. "This was a first discussion on what is this process supposed to deliver, how can it contribute to broader negotiations."

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Andy Karsner of the US Energy Department, a delegate to this conference, agreed. "I have been very pleased, in fact touched, by the sentiment in the room, that really reflects a changing of the mood, a turning of the page," Karsner told reporters. "It really exemplifies how significant the Bali roadmap has been in terms of all the nations of the world beginning to signal the areas that they will concentrate on over a very limited timetable."

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/46726/story.htm

[Traditional Liberal]

1. Let me guess

I bet that DOE hack didn't talk about the fact that his boss was pulling funding from the "centerpiece" of the Bush response to climate change, Futuregen, WHILE the conference was going on. Sec bodman decided that four years of rhetoric bs about how much the US is spending on climate change research was enough...no need to actually spend the money, it's enough to just talk about and lie to the American people and the world.

Yet another in the long list of bright shining lies to highlight the legacy of the chimp.

[cedric]

2. Business As Usual

It's simply a talking shop which will simply waste time.