Times Online
December 16, 2009
Philippe Naughton

A group of American rightwingers led by the former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is to fire a shot across President Obama's bows with a full-page advert in a Danish newspaper warning him not to make carbon commitments he cannot live up to at the Copenhagen summit.

Mr Obama is flying into the UN summit on Friday and has already offered to cut US CO2 emissions by 17 per cent on 2005 levels by 2020 — although other developed nations which started cutting their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol use a more testing 1990 baseline and are demanding more.

Mr Gingrich's American Solutions group has booked space in the English-language Copenhagen Post tomorrow and on Friday to insist that the President would need the approval of Senate to raitify any agreement despite the recent decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that CO2 and other greenhouse gases represented a health risk.

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