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19. George W. Obama

"His Nickname Is George W. Obama": Leading Climate Change Denier Embraces U.S. Stance at U.N. Talks
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/8/his_nickname_is_george_w_obama

AMY GOODMAN: Interestingly, on Wednesday, a group of climate change deniers held a news conference here at the U.N. climate change summit in Durban. Speakers included Marc Morano, publisher of the "Climate Depot," a website run by the organization Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT. I spoke to Marc Morano just before this broadcast and asked him about President Obama.

MARC MORANO: His nickname is "George W. Obama." Obama’s negotiator, Todd Stern, will be here today. They have kept the exact same principles and negotiating stance as President George Bush did for eight years. Obama has carried on Bush’s legacy. So, as skeptics, we tip our hat to President Obama in helping crush and continue to defeat the United Nations process. Obama has been a great friend of global warming skeptics at these conferences. Obama has problems, you know, for us, because he’s going through the EPA regulatory process, which is a grave threat. But in terms of this, President Obama could not have turned out better when it came to his lack of interest in the congressional climate bill and his lack of interest in the United Nations Kyoto Protocol. So, a job well done for President Obama.

AMY GOODMAN: That was, interestingly, Marc Moreno of CFACT, which is the climate change denier group, saying that President Obama is basically their best ally, "George W. Obama." Ambassador Pablo Solón, what do you make of this?

PABLO SOLÓN: Well, when Obama came into the presidency in the U.S., in Latin America and Bolivia there was a lot of expectation, a lot of hope. But it’s true. After all these years, we can say nothing has changed. And even the politics of the U.S. in relation to climate change has went worse and worse, because we don’t see at all an initiative from the side of the U.S. to push for a stronger deal that has to meet the great problems of climate change.