&#8216;Twas the Chinese did the deed
<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>
<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>
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<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>
<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>
<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>
