Obama's COP15 Dilemma: Blame China? - David Corn

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/18/David_Corn_Reacts_to_Obamas_Train_Wreck_COP15_Speech

David Corn, chief of the Washington bureau for Mother Jones, examines Obama's challenges after the COP15 resolution. Corn argues that all of Obama's political calculations are complicated except that "blaming China works back home."

FORA.tv's complete coverage of the COP15 Climate Change Conference: http://fora.tv/partner/COP15

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FORA.tv's own Stuart Schulzke interviews David Corn, chief of the Washington bureau for Mother Jones. Calling President Obama's speech a "potential train wreck," Corn evaluates the address in the political context of the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. - COP15

David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief. A regular on political talk shows, he has broken stories on George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Clinton, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, and other Washington players. His best-selling books include Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (with Michael Isikoff) and The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception.

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[figureskatingbug]

blame china? excuse me, china provided you with the papers.

[gregsobekofficial]

looks like george w. kind of:) all that inbreeding::)

[ulleule]

Blame china?? what a joke. europe and usa both of them trying to put it on china.. FUcking mother fuckers... China should stand up together with brasil and indian...

[Darkhorse21x]

After some time, an equivalent amount of

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black body radiation is emitted from everything in the atmosphere, and 8% of it is absorbed by CO2 as fingerprint radiation.

[Darkhorse21x]

@stengvarsel

Here's how the dynamic works. The IR is emitted from the surface of the earth as black body radiation, which has a wide bandwidth. Then CO2 absorbs a fingerprint set of frequencies, which is 8% of the available black body radiation. As it is absorbed, it is instantly converted into heat (in less than a pico second). The heat is distributed over all molecules in the atmosphere, which means 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen.

[Darkhorse21x]

You are welcome

[Darkhorse21x]

Oh CFC....

The two issues are not relevant to each other.

[Darkhorse21x]

Who or what is KFK?

Kentucky Fried Kangaroos?

Kohn Fitzgerald Kenedy?

[Darkhorse21x]

@stengevarsel

You ate a carbon based life form which your body "burned" as fuel which gives you "energy" to function and you emit CO2...........How exactly is this different from a power plant burneng coal as fuel to produce steam to run a turbine to produce electricity?

[stengevarsel]

By the way, thank you for correcting my errors in spelling and grammar. Sometimes I like to experiment with the English language, it is much richer than my own.