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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Is Mind Blowing! Emails, Wikileaks, Hacking, Russia, Trump. No, It's Not 2016/17, It's 2009
7 Years Before Russia Hacked the Election, Someone Did the Same Thing to Climate ScientistsOne Saturday morning in June, two days after the president had announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement, Michael Mann was tweeting about Donald Trump.
Mann, a Penn State professor who is one of the worlds most prominent climate scientists, was thinking about the daily barrage of revelations surrounding Russias efforts to help Trump win the previous years election. The hacked Democratic documents posted on WikiLeaks. The media craze over private emails that had been ripped out of context. Smear campaigns circulating on social media.
#Russia #Wikileaks #HackedEmails #Sabotaged #ClimateAgreements, tweeted Mann. Why does this story sound so darned familiar?
Seven years earlier, Trump was riffing on a very different set of hacked emails. The real estate mogul had called into Fox News after a blizzard to declare that climate change was a hoax. Trump claimed that one of the leaders of global warming had recently admitted in a private email that years of scientific research were nothing but a con.
Full Article: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/climategate-wikileaks-russia-trump-hacking/
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This Is Mind Blowing! Emails, Wikileaks, Hacking, Russia, Trump. No, It's Not 2016/17, It's 2009 (Original Post)
blue-wave
Dec 2017
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Russia's basically a gas station with nukes -- Putin is very dependent on oil and gas sales.
eppur_se_muova
Dec 2017
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. Trump has been playing politics for years
druidity33
(6,446 posts)2. K&R, MoJo rocks... always has. nt.
eppur_se_muova
(36,266 posts)3. Russia's basically a gas station with nukes -- Putin is very dependent on oil and gas sales.
OF COURSE he's doing everything he can to fight action against global warming.