Global Warming on back burner, UN abandons. Scott Brown election cited-Financial Times

"The timetable to reach a global deal to tackle climate change lay in tatters on Wednesday after the UN waived the first deadline of the process laid out at last month’s fractious Copenhagen summit....

• Yvo de Boer, the UN’s senior climate change official, admitted that the deadline had in effect been shelved....

The result of Tuesday’s Massachusetts senatorial election, which took away Barack Obama’s super-majority in the Senate, is likely to push climate change further down the US agenda.

• It was the latest in a series of setbacks that have caused efforts to push a cap-and-trade bill through the Senate to grind to a halt, making it harder for the White House to participate meaningfully in global climate negotiations.

Instead, the administration has been pressing ahead with steps to limit the US’s carbon emissions through regulation. The Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled new draft rules that would sharply tighten regulations on smog-building pollutants, or ground-level ozone, and has cracked down on greenhouse gas emissions by ruling that carbon dioxide and five other gases pose a danger to health."

• from Financial Times, "UN Abandons Climate Change Deadline," 1/20/10, by Fiona Harvey and Anna Fifield. via Drudge Report

""The real cause of climate change is the capitalist system.

• If we want to save the earth then we must end that economic model.""Bolivian President, Yvo Morales (quote at end of article)

from speech made in Copenhagen, reported 1/14/10 in UK Guardian, article, "UN should be sidelined in future climate talks, says Obama"

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