Durban Climate Hero Abigail Borah: 'I Am Speaking On Behalf Of the USA'

12/8/11: DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA - Abigail Borah, a 21-year-old student from Middlebury College and member of the youth climate delegation, spoke out in the plenary hall as US climate envoy Todd Stern prepared to address the assembled environmental ministers at the Durban climate talks. From DemocracyNow! "I am speaking on behalf of the United States of America because my negotiators cannot. The obstructionist Congress has shackled justice and delayed ambition for far too long. I am scared for my future. 2020 is too late to wait. We need an urgent path to a fair, ambitious and legally binding treaty. We need leaders who will commit to real change, not empty rhetoric. Keep your promises. Keep our hope alive."

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[windsorgirl1]

"Nobody's listening to you" and yet everyone clapped!!!! ♥♥♥

[DavidLeeWilsonYT]

some people (who belong to another species which I have named H. Grǽdum) are saying that the applause was because you were being removed - this is obviously false, they were applauding both your message, which is true, and your courageous self - as I am applauding too, sitting here in a little room so far away - good on you Abigail. and thank you.

[Xareal]

@mangankids - lol

[mangankids]

@Xareal That's right, quit like the pussy that you are. Happens every time. This is why you have nothing to show for your braying and whining. No treaty, no cap and trade, and no respect from the vast majority of voters. You losers don't have the balls to tackle something as huge as "saving the world." Or the brains.

[Xareal]

@mangankids Good game moron, the only way someone could be as stupid as you are right now is if they were doing so on purpose. Your head is so far up your ass you're french-kissing yourself. Have a good one loser, your argument has zero evidence to support it. I'll not be wasting time on your retardation any further.

[mangankids]

@Xareal One part per million per year is an alarming rate? Maybe to a prancing catamite like yourself. To those of us who see that there has been no warming in 15 years, we don't give a shit. If you're worried, though, we could eliminate a lot of co2 by eliminating you True Believers. Why don't you set a good example by jumping off a bridge or setting yourself on fire or something. Make yourself useful for once, parasite.

[mangankids]

@Xareal Oh, that's rich. Passing along requests to delete emails and intimidate journal editors is not conspiratorial? How about agreeing to freeze out skeptical papers? Or discussing "Mike's trick" of grafting thermometer records onto proxy records to make the numbers work? The all agreed to leave out their doubts about the bogus paleoclimatology "science" being produced by Mann and Jones.

[mangankids]

@Xareal You are the perfect example of how easy it is to manipulate the mouth-breathers in the lower rungs of society. The propaganda tactic of tying normal weather occurrences to global warming is a desperation move. You cannot find a real scientist who will say "This wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been for global warming!"

Hey, asshat! Tell us what a big success Durban was! Show us your new treaty! Oh, wait....

[mangankids]

@Xareal Record breaking meteorological ferocity? Really? What world do you live on? That's how it always works with you Reavers. Just make shit up. Why don't you take a look at the 1930's for bad weather, you sputtering pusbag. Go ahead, show me a meteorologist who says we're seeing things we've never seen before. While you're at it why don't you explain why your select group of "scientists" feel it's alright to break the law and avoid FOIA requests from taxpayers?

[Xareal]

@mangankids - I have forgotten more about this subject than your puerile comprehension could even hope to understand. If you want to look at corrupt bureaucrats then you should really be looking at the ones denying Global Climate Change. Snow in Texas? Record breaking Meteorological ferocity? Only a dumbass spoonfed bullshit three times a day could possibly think there's no evidence. Even if you WERE right, we would STILL need to take action to protect our environment retard.

[Xareal]

@mangankids The leaked emails, taken out of context, were not found to be pointing to any kind of conspiracy. So you're an idiot there.

Every survey of the CO2 content of the atmosphere by EVERY group that has studied it has shown that it is spiking radically. Even your conservative goons like Fred Singer and Nierenberg admitted that CO2 was increasing at an alarming rate. You obviously have no idea of just how huge the scope of this problem is. You're a dribbling sack of shit.

[mangankids]

@Xareal Hey, tool. I've followed this subject every day since 2006. Every day I run into some silly bitch like you who blindly accepts what a bunch of corrupt bureaucrats tell you to think. You and your fucking consensus. Remember, until Mann and his Hockey Stick fraud came along the consensus was that the world had a Medieval Warming Period. These same organizations ridiculed Plate Tectonic theory in their day, too. You know know jack shit about this subject, poseur.