He’ll be helped along with his plan by the Easter Bunny, while flying unicorns will deliver him to future climate change meetings. He would’ve promised world peace and the creation of a tonic for immortality but he didn’t want to seem too ambitious in his first six months.

President Obama and other leaders backed historic new targets for tackling global warming last night in an agreement designed to pave the way for a world deal in the autumn.

For the first time, America and the other seven richest economies agreed to the goal of keeping the world’s average temperature from rising more than 2C (3.6F).

They also agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 as they strove for a worldwide deal at Copenhagen in December…

There were signs last night that the G13 — the eight joined by China, India, Mexico, South Africa and Brazil — would today also sign up to the 2C limit.

Hopes of an international deal remain on a knife edge because earlier yesterday China and India declined to support the objective of halving their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and Hu Jintao, the Chinese President, flew home to deal with growing problems in his own country.

While there are signals that India may be prepared to move, the G8 leaders do not expect agreement from the developing countries to halve emissions.

There’s a surprise. So while China and India continue building their economies and national wealth, we’ll be busy punishing our industries and driving our nation further into recession over voodoo science. The developing nations are just smart enough to know better than sign on to a job-killing, industry-destroying initiative aimed at stopping a natural warming of the planet.

You’ll recall that the Kyoto Protocol also left developing nations out of the limitation. The Senate rejected it by a real close margin — 95 to nothing. While some liberal senators might be willing to punish their own nation over the junk science alarmism, it’s questionable as to whether Obama can get the 67 votes needed to ratify a treaty. There are plenty of moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats not ready to jump off the cliff with the far-left enviroloons.

More: Hot Air.