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White House talks up its Hawaii climate-change meeting

Posted at 11:43 AM on 16 Jan 2008

The White House has released a statement regarding its very own climate-change meeting for the world's biggest economies, to be held Jan. 30-31 in Hawaii. "The two-day meeting will further the shared objectives of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, increasing energy security and efficiency, and sustaining economic growth, and will help to advance the negotiations under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change," the White House Council on Environmental Quality announced, fooling no one. Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the United Nations are invited to send delegates. The gathering will be a follow-up to a rendezvous held back in September, at which nothing happened. The same is to be expected in Hawaii.

source: Agence France-Presse

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Book 'em Dan-O...into the Wikiki Hilton!

Right, another group of people who "fear warming" who then choose to meet in a tropical paradise!

As I said, why not meet in a basement in Detroit during winter...then tell me how much you detest warming.

by jabailo at 3:48 PM on 16 Jan 2008

business trip to Hawaii in January?

one would have to be a moron to skip that so I guess all of the invitees will show up even if they expect nothing (as they should) from the Bush administration.

actually, doesn't the Bush admin hold these meetings so they can try and talk the other nations and the UN into having the same lame brain policies that they have put in place in the US? isn't that the real point of the US sponsored meetings?

cmello

by cmello at 8:37 AM on 22 Jan 2008

What were they thinking?

One of the purposes of Bush's climate change meeting is to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Yet delegates from 17 countries are invited to meet in Hawaii? When Honolulu, Hawaii is thousands of miles from the nearest landmass/California?

According to www.terrapass.com, a round-trip flight from Los Angeles, CA/LAX is 5,101 miles from Honolulu, HI/HNL, which emits 1,989 pounds of CO2...per passenger!

What were they thinking? I mean, besides "how can we go to paradise on taxpayer dollars (again, remember the last climate change meeting was in Bali.)

by marnie at 2:44 PM on 23 Jan 2008

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