Eco-Diplomacy, The Chicago Way

IBD Editorials ^ | December 6, 2010 | Staff

[Kaslin]

International Relations: Leaked embassy dispatches show an America bribing some and threatening others to get support for a climate change accord, revealing just how weak the case for such a treaty really is.

Sometimes it is worth seeing how the sausage — or in the case of climate change, the baloney — is made. While the WikiLeaks focus has been on the leaking of classified documents, the content of some of them is revealing.

David Carrington in Britain's Guardian shows how the U.S., after failing to get a successor treaty to the failed Kyoto Protocol in Denmark, bribed, threatened and cajoled nations to get support for a "Copenhagen accord" under which nations would pledge to meet individual goals in the absence of a binding one-size-fits-all treaty.

In one instance, Hillary Clinton's State Department, acting on a request from the CIA, sent a secret cable on July 31, 2009, seeking "human intelligence" from U.N. diplomats on which nations were being naughty and which were being nice on climate change and which might be making deals to circumvent Copenhagen goals.

We were essentially seeking dirt on nations opposed to the administration's approach to fighting alleged global warming, and we were not above blackmail to get nations to comply with our position or threats that involved the cutting off of financial assistance promised to poorer nations said to be impacted by climate change.

[lowbridge]

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[PGR88]

Spying to promote global-warming controls????

For all of human history until this point, diplomats lied, or spied, for the purposes of national defense, power, money, or possibly sex.

Under Obama, these activities are done by those in power to actually weaken the country they represent, and promote the aims of a doomsday cult with quasi-religious mellenial beliefs.

We really are in never-never land.

[raptor22]

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[Clint Williams]

Spying to promote global-warming controls????
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We really are in never-never land.

America -- a great idea, didn't last: sal si puedes.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx raptor22 !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[GOPJ]

In one instance, Hillary Clinton's State Department, acting on a request from the CIA, sent a secret cable on July 31, 2009, seeking "human intelligence" from U.N. diplomats on which nations were being naughty and which were being nice on climate change and which might be making deals to circumvent Copenhagen goals.

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