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CANCUN: The Wikileaks cablegate hit the climate talks at Cancun as well with leaked documents showing how the US and EU had attempted to manipulate talks in favour of the Copenhagen Accord by offering monetary carrots to small countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change and cutting aid to those who dared to oppose them. Several countries had talked of dirty tricks played by rich countries even at Copenhagen in December 2009 but the game seems to have got dirtier after the infamous Copenhagen Accord was signed at the Danish capital but could not fly with some countries...

From Nopenhagen to Yes We Cancun by Christopher MoncktonThanks to Wikileaks, everyone here in the Mañana Republic of Mexico now knows just how much bullying and arm-twisting the administration of Barack Obama in the United States applied to various countries around the world so that they would (and did) sign up to the Copenhagen climate accord.Without that pressure, nothing at all would have happened at Copenhagen this time last year, and “the Process” – the interminable round of flatulent annual climate conferences in exotic locations at taxpayers’ expense – would have tipped into the gulch forever.The hard Left has learned...

It’s all a grand charade — the matinee show put on by the Theater of Science was merely being used for the Grand Extravaganza called the Theater of Politics.Wikileaks, not surprisingly, turned up some not-so-diplomatic and not-so-scientific goings-on in the political race to steer power and dollars.From The Guardian 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...

sixteen page PDF document outlining the 'provisional agenda' of the UN March 29 Conclave in Bonn, Germany. [Memo obtained by FOX News]

A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body. Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations "information note" on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the...