And because wingnuts will monitor the comments here …

I want to offer kudos to the Obama Administration for holding their own in Copenhagen this week.

Anyone who theorizes that Obama has wanted an opportunity to destroy America’s economic future and hand it over to the “New World Order” run by Chinese Socialists will have to deal with these facts -

1) The US has held firm on China / India /Brazil having to sign up to actual emissions cuts that are verifiable;

2) The US taxpayer will not be paying China a subsidy to continue polluting (something China is actually demanding).

The Clinton admin needed to “save face” and signed up to a Kyoto deal that the Senate was never going to ratify. Obama isn’t going down that road.

The latest news (all of 23 minutes old):

COPENHAGEN – In a showdown between the world’s two largest polluters, China accused the United States and other rich nations Tuesday of backsliding on fighting global warming and the top U.S. envoy said Chinese greenhouse gas emission commitments should be independently verified.

Trying to ease the tension, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said rich and poor countries must “stop pointing fingers” and should increase their pledges to cut emissions to salvage the faltering talks on a climate pact. The European Union also urged both the U.S. and China to increase their commitments on emissions targets, but the U.S. would not change its offer.

New negotiating drafts circulating Tuesday showed key issues, including emissions targets for industrial countries, climate financing for developing countries, and verification of emissions, remained unresolved.

“The texts are getting less precise, seemingly,” said Melinda Kimble, senior vice president of the U.N. Foundation and a former U.S. climate negotiator.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Berlin that she was “somewhat nervous” about prospects of success in Copenhagen.

Ban’s warning in an interview with The Associated Press came as world leaders began arriving in Copenhagen, kicking the two-week conference into high gear in its quest to deliver a deal to curb emissions that cause global warming.

The conference so far has been marked by sharp disagreements between China and the United States and deep divisions between rich and poor nations.

“You can’t even begin to have an environmentally sound agreement without the adequate, significant participation of China,” said U.S. special climate envoy Todd Stern.

China and other developing countries are resisting U.S.-led attempts to make their cuts in emissions growth binding and open to international scrutiny rather than voluntary.

China, the world’s largest polluter, is grouped with developing nations at the talks, but the U.S. doesn’t consider China to be in need of climate-change aid.

In Beijing, China accused developed countries Tuesday of trying to escape their obligations to help poor nations fight climate change.