Headline lies: U.S. does NOT want climate control

But, the Yahoo headline on this AP story about the G8 and climate control claims it does:

US, allies want global pollution slashed — by 2050

The lede in the story specifically negates that header:

World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming.

If it’s “nonbinding” (and that is at the assistance of Darth Cheney, more on him in a second), then it can’t be “wanted.”

Plus, how can a “nonbinding” goal be “ambitious”? Same answer — it can’t. If you have an ambition, it’s always for something specific.

Besides being nonbinding, this “goal” doesn’t name a baseline year or anything else.

So, even if Yahoo wrote the header, without an AP suggestion, nonetheless, the AP writers wrote a crappy lede to boot.

I’ve cut the AP slack on whether or not they’re out to “get” Obama, but this is just crappy writing.

Oh, and Darth Cheney?

We certainly won’t have anything either binding or ambitious as long as he’s in office, perhaps still deleteing public health risk information from climate change testimony.

Is this not suborning perjury?

But because Passive Pelosi™ opposes the use of Congressional inherent contempt, we’re likely to never get that legally settled.