Nations yet to agree on climate change meeting date

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The Federal Government has admitted a date is yet to be set for the first meeting of nations under a new partnership on climate change. Two months ago, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced that the newly formed Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate would hold its inaugural meeting in Adelaide in November.

Mr Downer said it would be attended by senior ministers from the United States, Japan, China, India and South Korea. But Environment Minister Senator Ian Campbell says the governments are yet to agree on a date for the talks.

"We're working very hard to set a date, we had discussions as I said in Ottowa 10 days ago, we're seeking to get six governments to get together with very senior level ministers from each government to make a historic breakthrough on saving the climate and saving the planet, the particular date will be announced as soon as we've got that date," he said.

The Federal Opposition is accusing the Government of struggling to come up with an alternative to the Kyoto protocol for cutting greenhouse gases. Opposition environment spokesman Anthony Albanese says the Government has been caught out. "Quite clearly the dates were important, the Government had to appear to be doing something so it with great fanfare announced this meeting and it would appear that this is a meeting without an agenda and now without a venue or any attendees," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1476682.htm

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1. I bet the environment won’t have scheduling difficulties

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2. We're going to announce a phony climate effort with great fanfare . . .

And then we're not going to actually DO anything, and we're going to cross our fingers and hope like hell that nobody actually checks what we said and cross-references it to reality . . .

And then we'll deny we ever, ever said anything like our political opponents claim we did, since they're only engaged in the politics of personal destruction.


Lying, arrogant fucks.

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3. Kicking to show that mealy-mouthed hypocrisy is not just for Americans!

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