Scott Ott's Examiner Scrappleface: U.N. warns Obama on unilateral climate action
By: Scott Ott
Examiner Columnist
October 13, 2009
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The United Nations General Assembly today voted to rebuke the United States for its "unilateral, saber-rattling against climate change," and encouraged President Obama to allow time for negotiations, inspections and monitoring to produce a win-win solution.
U.N. diplomats expressed concern that Obama's increasingly bellicose rhetoric about "weather of mass destruction" (WMD), that he claims will be spawned by alleged secret stores of greenhouse gases, is nothing but an effort "to gin up a sense of urgency to benefit the president's corporate cronies in the non-petroleum energy sector."
The U.N. resolution challenges the validity of U.S.-gathered intelligence documenting a global network of seemingly isolated weather events, ice cap core samples and tree-ring analysis, which the Obama administration constitutes "a grave and gathering threat."
An unnamed European ambassador criticized Obama's "rush to judgment, and insatiable desire to use aggression to address every problem."
"That's what keeps the U.S. out of step with more enlightened members of the global community," the source diplomat said. "Obama uses this apocalyptic language to scare us into precipitous action against climate change. What's needed, instead, is a well-reasoned, cautious diplomacy that emphasizes dialogue over deployments, and concessions over confrontation."
However, the White House said the president would continue to assemble a 'coalition of the willing' to fight a global war on warming (GWOW).
"We've delayed action for about 45,000 years," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. "Our stalling has only served to let this threat to our national security grow bolder and more dangerous. The time for talking has passed. The president has very directly said "you're either with us, or you're with the carbon emissions. From now on, the U.S. will make no distinction between emissions and those who emit them."
Examiner columnist Scott Ott is editor in chief of ScrappleFace.com, the world's leading family-friendly news satire source.
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