President Obama and the President of China jointly have announced a deal on carbon emissions . . . for 2030, when both of them will be in retirement. The details of the deal have yet to be hammered out – or hammered and sickled out, as the case may be.
The Western media are cheering this as an historic agreement. It is in fact a bilateral PR stunt.
Obama calls this ‘a major milestone.’ It is in fact a major headstone. It marks an interred corpse. This deal is dead on arrival.
Because China never reports its carbon emissions in detail, the deal is operationally irrelevant. Because Obama doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hawaii of getting any carbon emissions deal past Congress, the deal is operationally irrelevant. The Western media are cheering about this, as if it represents a major breakthrough. It is in fact evidence that Obama is the lamest lame-duck President since Herbert Hoover.
This guy is grabbing at straws. He is trying to turn ‘No, you can’t,’ into ‘Yes, I can.’
It is a deal that has been in planning stages secretly for five months. He announced it to the voters exactly a week after his party had its head handed to it in the mid-term elections.
All of this is preparation for a new treaty through the United Nations in 2015. But no President ever bothered to submit the 1997 Kyoto Protocol Agreement to the Senate for ratification. It was supposed to go into effect in February 2005. It is a dead letter. It is unenforceable. No one tries to enforce it.
The White House bulletin speaks only of ‘intention,’ as in ‘I intend to divorce my wife, and marry you, because I am committed to you [every Thursday].’
This post was published at Tea Party Economist on November 12, 2014.
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