Wikileaks on Climategate fight with the truth

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The Real Climate-Gate? WikiLeaks and Climate Talks

WASHINGTON - December 6 - The United Nations summit on the climate crisis is continuing this week in Cancun, Mexico. The following are there and reachable for interviews:


MICHAEL DORSEY
Professor of global environmental policy at Dartmouth College, Dorsey can comment on events in Cancun as well as the U.S. diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks regarding climate negotiations. See in the Guardian: "WikiLeaks cables reveal how U.S. manipulated climate accord: Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord."


ORIN LANGELLE
JEFF CONANT
Langelle and Conant are with the Global Justice Ecology Project. They can arrange interviews with a number of activists on global warming and climate disruption from around the world currently at the summit.

Also, see climatevoices.wordpress.com

Conant said today: “The WikiLeaks cables reveal that the can-do, earth-saving rhetoric of the U.S. administration masks disturbing behind-the-scenes efforts to sabotage the climate negotiations. The U.S. is putting economic interests ahead of its moral and environmental responsibilities. The WikiLeaks cables open a window, too, into the disturbing nature of the policies themselves: a policy like REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), and carbon offsets in general, are fronts not only for evading moral and political responsibility, but for denying land rights to peasants and indigenous peoples, while allowing dirty industries to continue driving climate change."


LAURA CARLSEN
Carlsen is director of the Mexico City-based Americas Program of the Center for International Policy. She said today: "It's a foregone conclusion that world leaders will fail to win a binding agreement on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming at the COP [conference of the parties] 16 in Cancun. Although they'll announce 'progress' toward continued talks next round, their inaction will mark an historic failure and an affront to future generations.

"Meanwhile, the proposed market-based mechanisms to supposedly mitigate climate change, like the UN forestation program REDD, instead of solving the climate change crisis, pose threats to governments' regulatory role and local and national stewardship of natural resources."

She recently wrote a piece titled "In Mexico City, a Message for Cancun."

Democracy Now is broadcasting from the summit this week: democracynow.org

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Wikileaks,  is global warming a hoax

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December 4, 2010. WikiLeaks exposes the United States for manipulating the Copenhagen Climate Accord in order to expedite their climate change agenda.

Obama’s ‘Transparent’ government has finally been deemed a success thanks to WikiLeaks, yet the American people are not the ones accessing the transparency. The Obama administration has made it a crime for federal employees and contractors to view the cable documents exposed by WikiLeaks, although the rest of the world is able to. Certainly they have something to hide from voting Americans.
In the latest release of cables, WikiLeaks reveals how the U.S. used corrupt actions to manipulate other countries into backing Obama’s global warming plans during the controversial Copenhagen Accord.
The tactics used to overwhelm the opposition were enforced by threats and bribes. Officials were encouraged to seek ‘dirt’ on nations opposing them. A secret offensive was created to overwhelm anyone who opposed the Obama Administration.

The Cables

The Wikileaks cables show that the accuracy in science was not of interest to the U.S. government during the Copenhagen Accord.
Two of the cables in question were printed by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. Those include a cable dated as secret on July 31, 2009 regarding spying on UN diplomats, the request originated from the CIA. The second was dated June 19, 2009 and detailed a computer virus that would take let the hacker have complete control over the recipient’s computer.


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Climategate & False Science

In November of 2009 thousands of controversial emails and documents were leaked from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, the Climate Research Unit Email Controversy, dubbed Climategate by the media. The documents revealed misconduct within the climate science community. Approximately 3000 documents from 1996 until 2009 pertaining to climate change research were exposed.
Three investigations were instigated by UK officials, and concluded that they could not find any reason to believe that scientific malpractice had taken place.

However, British Conservative Lord Lawson, a climate change sceptic, has repeatedly accused the climate change science for inconsistencies. He also criticized the Kyoto Protocol, and in 2009 launched the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a prominent UK organization scrutinizing global warming policy.
United States Senator Jim Inhofe also opposes the climate change science calling global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."
In 2003 Inhofe stated, "I have offered compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax. That conclusion is supported by the painstaking work of the nation's top climate scientists."

The Latest Climate Talks

The Cancun Climate Change Conference, now underway in Mexico, is the latest conference under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), following the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Accord .
The talks may already be in jeopardy as Japan reveals that the Kyoto Protocol is unreasonable if the two top polluting countries are not involved, which are China and the United States. Canada, Australia, and Russia also join Japan in agreement.
If the Kyoto Protocol fails it leaves an opportunity for the Copenhagen Accord to flourish, even with disclosures of corruptions revealed by WikiLeaks.
In a recent interview, Pablo Solón, Bolivian UN ambassador, discusses the WikiLeaks cables:
“I hope that we are not going to have to wait one year until we know really what happened here in Cancún, because what happened in Copenhagen is also happening here in Cancún, because there is a lot of pressure put into countries in order to force them to accept, I would say, a new version of the Copenhagen Accord. And we are afraid that we are going to have Copenhagen Accord part two in Cancún. So, for us, it is key to keep a very transparent and open negotiation, where all parties really put their positions on the table and where we negotiate. We have made a very strong critics on Friday—on Saturday, because the papers that are put on the table don’t reflect the positions of the different parties, of the different states. They reflect the positions of the chair, of the facilitators. But we are not still in a negotiation between parties.”
If corruption and manipulation continue to surface the UNFCCC can never truly bring an honest agreement between nations to the table, and as truth is buried for one agenda or another the real face of global warming may never emerge.
(GRAPH under Images: created by climatologist Wiktor Kobylinski - The graph shows that in the past three centuries, contrary to many opinions on this subject, there is no correlation between the quantity of CO2 emitted by human industrial activity and the intensity of global cooling / warming of the Earth's surface. )


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