‘Welcome to the delayers’: Obama’s ‘half-hearted climate efforts’ welcomed by skeptics

Climate Depot Editorial

Climate Depot warmly welcomes President Obama’s half-hearted climate efforts. Mr. President, welcome to the “delayers.” We hope you can soon join the full-fledged climate realist movement as global warming skepticism has now become politically expedient.

President Obama is now being excoriated for essentially continuing the policies of former President George W. Bush. (see: DER SPIEGEL: ‘Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change; Lied to Europeans’ – ‘Followed in footsteps of George W. Bush’ – November 17, 2009)

Green activists and the media is turning on Obama as he fails to produce the results they expected on global warming issues. See: George W. Obama? NYT: Disillusioned Environmentalists Turn on Obama as Compromiser – Feel ‘cheated’ by ‘meaningless’ climate bill! – July 13, 2009

NY Times: George W. Obama? President in ‘awkward position of being as unlikely to spearhead an international effort to combat global warming as Bush’ – November 16, 2009

Gore’s Current TV: ‘How long are we going to sit around and wait? The world is watching us and waiting for us to speak up for what is right’ – November 16,2009

Flashback: George W. Obama? ‘Obama Sounds Too Much Like Bush’…Greens say he ‘blocked progress to move UN negotiations forward’

Obama nominated for ‘crime’ of killing UN climate treaty: ‘Climate has all but slipped off the president’s agenda’ – November 17, 2009Excerpt: “Who Killed Copenhagen? A Whodunnit. Obama’s role in delivering the bad news was a sad spectacle, but not really a surprise. It marked the culmination of a year in which climate has all but slipped off the president’s agenda. […] Obama’s ambivalence has deflected pressure from two other big emitters: China and India.” End Excerpt.

Climate fear promoter Bill McKibben wrote a brutal assessment of Obama in the eco-magazine Grist. “We need more than rhetoric and excuses. Mr. President: Time to quit fibbing and spinning,” McKibben wrote on Nov. 17, 2009.
“I knocked doors, made phone calls, gave money, and celebrated [Obama’s] victory,” McKibben wrote. But now McKibben is not happy, noting that Obama has “talked very little about climate” and “in the process left the door open for climate deniers to have a field day.” McKibben ripped Obama’s recent comments for “sounding more like his giggly, sophomoric predecessor (George W. Bush) than the leader we desperately need.”

As has been reported this week, Obama is “retreating” on climate. See: