(AP) On Climate, The Elephant That's Ignored

[denem]

Which Elephant could that be?

The latest international deal on climate, reached early Saturday after hard days of bargaining, was described by exhausted delegates as a "step forward" in grappling with global warming. If they step too far, however, they're going to bump into an elephant in the room.

It's a symbolic elephant — the U.S. Republican Party — and as in the saying, nobody at the Cancun meetings wanted to talk about it.

The impending Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives essentially rules out any new, legally binding pact requiring the U.S. and other major emitters of global warming gases to reduce their emissions ....

....early in the two-week conference here, four Republican senators in Washington sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton demanding a freeze on about $3 billion in planned U.S. climate aid in 2010-2011.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131991566

[denem]

1. I mean fuk the future ... it's not sexy.

[maryf]

2. nope, burnt up and dead

is not sexy...K&R,

but don't blame just the republicans here; let's see how hard this is fought by the dems... :(