"We got bigger problems than climate right now. It's called finance, how we get out of the hole we're in."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who supported climate legislation last year, admitted that the global negotiations didn't make a bleep on her radar.
"I haven't really thought about it, to be honest with you," she said. But Feinstein denied that was because of the unpopularity of climate change these says.
"No -- no, no, no, it's just that I'm not on a committee related to it," she said. Her California colleague Barbara Boxer (D), who has made fighting climate change a signature issue, said she is too busy in the lame-duck session to go. Nor is she sending staff. Instead, Boxer said, "I'm sending a statement to Cancun."
Edes USA:n hihhulit eivät siis menneet cancuniin, heillä kuulemma on tärkeääkin tekemistä.
Joku heistä sanoi että olisi voinut muuten mennäkin muttei (onneksi) kutsuttu.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/12/01/01climatewire-diplomats-head-to-sunny-cancun-but-us-lawmak-61841.html?scp=2&sq=cancun&st=cse
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who supported climate legislation last year, admitted that the global negotiations didn't make a bleep on her radar.
"I haven't really thought about it, to be honest with you," she said. But Feinstein denied that was because of the unpopularity of climate change these says.
"No -- no, no, no, it's just that I'm not on a committee related to it," she said. Her California colleague Barbara Boxer (D), who has made fighting climate change a signature issue, said she is too busy in the lame-duck session to go. Nor is she sending staff. Instead, Boxer said, "I'm sending a statement to Cancun."
Edes USA:n hihhulit eivät siis menneet cancuniin, heillä kuulemma on tärkeääkin tekemistä.
Joku heistä sanoi että olisi voinut muuten mennäkin muttei (onneksi) kutsuttu.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/12/01/01climatewire-diplomats-head-to-sunny-cancun-but-us-lawmak-61841.html?scp=2&sq=cancun&st=cse
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AGW-keppihevosesta piiskattavissa ulos muuta kuin poliittista dismeriittiä. Eipä sinne päittäin ole tunkemassa enää Suomenkaan poliitikot.
CANCUN, Mexico -- Hysteria seems to have taken a holiday from the U.N. climate change treaty talks.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/12/06/06climatewire-usual-frenzy-is-gone-from-climate-talks-but-21843.html