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Hestia

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3. Obama now has the chance to sign it, and with a flourish, sticking it to big

Reply to RobertEarl (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 8, 2012, 03:52 PM

Dec 2012

lobbyists for coal, gas, and oil industries. Everyone knows that Kyoto is and will be the ultimate arbiter of global warming, but it does get the world on the same page to really discuss global warming. Look at Germany, 60% of power is clean energy. They paid for it with a surtax that guarantees, and pays for, to bring everyone over to renewable's. It was done in the middle of the night, with no discussion. Chris Hayes had a really good this a.m. about this conversation. (I just wish they would have on half as many commercials. I am sick of the conversation being cut off due to a sponsored break.)

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Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Dec 2012 #1

Never ratified? RobertEarl Dec 2012 #2

Obama now has the chance to sign it, and with a flourish, sticking it to big Hestia Dec 2012 #3

Actually Obama can't ratify, needs a Senate vote. CRH Dec 2012 #5

Ratification failed in the Senate 98-0 in 1998. n/t CRH Dec 2012 #4

It's actually Clinton's and Gore's fault. Pterodactyl Dec 2012 #6