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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (295632)12/4/2010 10:54:10 AM
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WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord

Guardian (UK) ^ | December 3, 2010 | Damian Carrington
guardian.co.uk

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
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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.

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