So
yesterday we were treated to a Washington Post story
opening by noting how Mexico President Calderon is focused first
and foremost on the minutiae of ‘global warming’, over other minor
issues like a civil war raging with bazooka-toting drug lords.
Great.
Today, ClimateWire reports:
NEGOTIATIONS: Leaked cables show U.S. pressured Saudis to accept
Copenhagen Accord (11/30/2010)
The Obama administration leaned heavily on Saudi Arabia to
associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord climate change
agreement, confidential State Department memos show.
The handful of climate-related cables — among the hundreds of
thousands of secret and unclassified messages released by the
whistle-blower organization Wikileaks — show the United
States put climate change at the center of its foreign policy
relationship with the oil-producing giant in the months
after last year’s blowout U.N. climate summit in Denmark. (emphasis
added)