Obama buzz felt at global climate talks

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081129/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_climate_change_obama_1

The president-elect won't be there, but an Obama buzz will crackle through the conference hall when negotiators gather Monday for a final push toward a sweeping new global warming treaty.

"America is back," says Sen. John Kerry, underscoring that Barack Obama's election signals a U.S. intent to regain a leadership role on climate change.

"After eight years of obstruction and delay and denial, the United States is going to rejoin the world community in tackling this global challenge," said the Massachusetts Democrat, in line to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Delegates from nearly 190 countries gather for two weeks in Poznan, Poland, meeting for fourth time in the past year. Previous talks have witnessed bickering, clashes and compromise in what the top U.N. climate official calls the most difficult and complex international negotiation in history.

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1. The Bushwhacks have done far more to obstruct a global warming treaty

then merely being "reluctant" to engage in negotiations.

"Delegates say Obama's election promises to energize a process that until now has been burdened by a U.S. reluctance to endorse any international climate regime.

"'In Poznan there will be a buzz — we can call it the American buzz,' said Jake Schmidt, of the Natural Resources Defense Council. 'The U.S. is back in the conversation, and back with a leader that gets it.'"

"At the same time, a global financial crisis has struck just when governments must commit to spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fight climate change".

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Interesting timing of their Financial 9/11, eh?