Flap over anti-U.S. toy ducks at UN climate talks

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N09214050.htm

Flap over anti-U.S. toy ducks at UN climate talks

MONTREAL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Environmentalists handed out 150 plastic ducks at an internnational climate conference on Friday in a joking stab at U.S. opposition to new U.N.-led talks on global warming.

"Some of them quack, or at least squeak," John Lanchbery of Birdlife International told Reuters at the talks in Montreal. "We left one on a chair outside the U.S. office. They were not very amused."

Environmentalists emptied Montreal toy shops of ducks after chief U.S. negotiator Harlan Watson left a session of talks overnight, saying a Canadian call for dialogue about new ways to confront climate change had all the elements of forcing Washington to accept new commitments.

"If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck then it is a duck," delegates quoted him as saying.

[Spazito]

1. LOL, gotta love the humour used to make a serious point

I hear they are also giving out whoopie cushions with bush's face on them and with the words "Emissions Accomplished" on them as well.

[Gregorian]

2. Please don't feed the monkeys

Oh Canada, you're going to pay a dear price for that. It's not nice to mess with a Bush. They bite back.

But as much as I'm tiring of the tit for tat, after the purple band-aids, it feels so good.