text: Barack Obama "must" push through climate laws ahead of this year's crucial Copenhagen summit, warns Co2-hysteric Danish minister Connie Hedegaard Todd Stern, the state department's lead climate negotiator, agreed that the prospects for a successful outcome at Copenhagen would be improved if the US could pass climate legislation in advance. ... But Stern told Congress, that America would not meet the short-term target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40% by 2020. " I don't think it's necessary, and I do know it's not possible ," he said. More complete insanity from the Obama administration Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is trying to sell commodity groups on the idea of replacing traditional farm programs with so-called green payments or carbon credits . The groups arent buying it. ... Speaking to the NAWG, Vilsack said direct payments initially were supposed to transition growers away from government payments, but have taken on a life of their own. If direct payments have a limited future, I suggest you think about using climate change to take care of this. Payments would be easier to explain to the man on the street if they were being received for helping the climate . Noting tension in the farm community over direct payments, he said farmers need to come together or they will pick you apart.