WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-us-manipulated-climate-accord
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Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.
The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
Negotiating a climate treaty is a high-stakes game, not just because of the danger warming poses to civilisation but also because re-engineering the global economy to a low-carbon model will see the flow of billions of dollars redirected.
Seeking negotiating chips, the US state department sent a secret cable on 31 July 2009 seeking human intelligence from UN diplomats across a range of issues, including climate change. The request originated with the CIA. As well as countries' negotiating positions for Copenhagen, diplomats were asked to provide evidence of UN environmental "treaty circumvention" and deals between nations.
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albyom
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Nothing new. The American since 2001 they are operating with a project call HAARP.
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albyom
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alexandrek:
Actually, Aexandrek, the Maldives are by no means a rich country - its only resources are fishing on a small scale, and tourism.
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Vierotchka
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Dejan_Croatia
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wow...very interesting! Wikileaks are releasing better news in the sense of real journalism than fucken CNN,FOX and the rest of them.
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Dejan_Croatia
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CalgarC
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those leaks causing a lot of damage... Julian is a hero for releasing these...
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CalgarC
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RMattnerTours
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Now I'm really pissed.
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RMattnerTours
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oppressed1
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This isnt news.
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oppressed1
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CalgarC
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oppressed1:
and your not human!
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CalgarC
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Varex_Sythe
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oppressed1:
Is this not news in the sense that the information has been available for a long time already, or is it not news in another sense?
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Varex_Sythe
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artemis6
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oppressed1:
Hell it isn't !
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artemis6
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oppressed1
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CalgarC:
you're
lol jk i hate grammar police!
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oppressed1
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CalgarC
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oppressed1:
i rarely write proper grammar when posting comments... they are comments to me haha :D
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CalgarC
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KSirys
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Talk about spam... two comments and the rest are spam... WTF!!! by the way, good post V!
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KSirys
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Itsbatman_Durr
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what a load of crap. the article makes no mention of the US doing anything but trying to convince others to their point of view. the so called cyberwarfare mentioned was done AGAINST the US by china. in fact even though every act that might be seen as shady in the article is done by other countries and not the US, the article STILL manages to skew the tone against the US. biased, untrustworthy and yet again, static.
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Itsbatman_Durr
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Vierotchka
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Itsbatman_Durr:
The US wanted much milder measures to be taken than the measures the EU and many other countries wanted, so as to protect their oil interests and consumption.
The Chinese cyberwarfare issue is far less important - but the US did want China to reduce its CO2 output far more than the US itself was prepared to do.
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Vierotchka
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kennymotown
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Vierotchka:
Great post V!
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kennymotown
