Comments on: Pew Center At Poznan: Bush Doing ‘A Good Job Of Representing US Interests’ http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/pew-center-problem/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: allen andrew http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/pew-center-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3228 allen andrew Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:23:46 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/pew-center-problem/#comment-3228 This link, from above, was helpful: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/07/AR2008120702426.html This link, from above, was helpful:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/07/AR2008120702426.html

]]> By: allen andrew http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/pew-center-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3226 allen andrew Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:17:42 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/pew-center-problem/#comment-3226 Just yesterday California adopted a plan to reduce to 1990 emission levels by 2020 - this has got to help Obama move a similar national goal forward. I don't understand why the US *must have cap-and-trade legislation in place before/by the meeting in Copenhagen - there is obviously something I don't know about timing and international agreements. Why couldn't we commit ourselves to something in the international forum in Copenhagen and then return and begin work getting the congress to ratify it? Is it because the Senate never ratified Kyoto that the rest of the world would will not have confidence in the US signing on unless it *already had passed significant cap-and-trade legislation? But why let such pessimism take the day especially at such an early hour? I'm baffled. Just yesterday California adopted a plan to reduce to 1990 emission levels by 2020 – this has got to help Obama move a similar national goal forward.

I don’t understand why the US *must have cap-and-trade legislation in place before/by the meeting in Copenhagen – there is obviously something I don’t know about timing and international agreements. Why couldn’t we commit ourselves to something in the international forum in Copenhagen and then return and begin work getting the congress to ratify it? Is it because the Senate never ratified Kyoto that the rest of the world would will not have confidence in the US signing on unless it *already had passed significant cap-and-trade legislation? But why let such pessimism take the day especially at such an early hour? I’m baffled.

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