{"id":1532,"date":"2009-12-22T23:38:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T04:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2010-07-18T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T01:36:17","slug":"twas-the-chinese-did-the-deed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Twas the Chinese did the deed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, this is interesting.  Mark Lynas writes this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2009\/dec\/22\/copenhagen-climate-change-mark-lynas\">Copenhagen climate conference How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had a strong hunch that it was going to turn out that the Chinese had trashed any hope of an agreement in Copenhagen, and Mr. Lynas mostly duplicates my reasoning  &mdash; well, except for the part where I&#8217;m inclined to feel grateful to the Chinese for their obstructionism; he isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Chinese are too busy industrializing to want to put up with crap about carbon limits. That&#8217;s obvious, and it&#8217;s why I was expecting them to torpedo the proceedings. But I think Mr. Lynas is missing the other elephant in the room &mdash; the CRU leak.  I think we&#8217;re seeing the first geopolitical impact of the East Anglia emails.<\/p>\n<p>Put yourself in the Chinese leadership&#8217;s shoes for a moment, and imagine Hu Jintao reading an intelligence precis of the leaked documents.  I imagine his reaction would be something much like this: &#8220;Foreign devils want us to slow down our GDP growth for a <em>fraud<\/em>?  Fuck that and the dragon it rode in on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Savor the irony.  Reds pretending to be green have been scuppered by mercantilists pretending to be Reds.  OK, that&#8217;s oversimplifying grossly; the Chinese have managed to retain most of the worst traits of communism on their capitalist road, and not all the heavies in the AGW crowd are scheming socialists.  It&#8217;s still true enough to be funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, this is interesting. Mark Lynas writes this: Copenhagen climate conference How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room. I had a strong hunch that it was going to turn out that the Chinese had trashed any hope of an agreement in Copenhagen, and Mr. Lynas mostly duplicates my&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1532\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Twas the Chinese did the deed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}