No Honor Among Liars in Copenhagen

Halp us, Al Gore!

First it was the leaked emails. Now it is a leaked text . . .

No, not that type of text.

The agreement, leaked to the Guardian, is a departure from the Kyoto protocol's principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the CO2, should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases, while poorer nations were not compelled to act. The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol – the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.

What? The richer nations are going to make the poorer nations do something to get money?! Why, that's, that's . . . oh, what the hell, it's probably racist!

So, all the Left's whining in the past about Evil Bush not signing the Kyoto Protocol and now Obama is going to . . . abandon it.

However, every cloud has a silver lining, and the one here is that this agreement would "weaken the UN's role in handling climate finance."

"It is being done in secret. Clearly the intention is to get [Barack] Obama and the leaders of other rich countries to muscle it through when they arrive next week. It effectively is the end of the UN process," said one diplomat, who asked to remain nameless.

Suckahs!