It remains to be seen of anything can embarrass the shrinking band of global warmists. The head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James Hansen, is testing that question. In e-mails that have become public, he expresses his anger at free elections and a preference for China’s dictatorship.
The nation's most prominent publicly funded climatologist is officially angry about this, blaming democracy and citing the Chinese government as the "best hope" to save the world from global warming. He also wants an economic boycott of the U.S. sufficient to bend us to China's will.
His rants were published while he was in China in November but were only recently published by Marc Morano, formerly chief global-warming researcher for Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican.
According to Mr. Hansen, compared to China, we are "the barbarians" with a "fossil-money- 'democracy' that now rules the roost," making it impossible to legislate effectively on climate change. Unlike us, the Chinese are enlightened, unfettered by pesky elections. Here's what he blogged on Nov. 24:
"I have the impression that Chinese leadership takes a long view, perhaps because of the long history of their culture, in contrast to the West with its short election cycles. At the same time, China has the capacity to implement policy decisions rapidly. The leaders seem to seek the best technical information and do not brand as a hoax that which is inconvenient."
Hansen proposes that China organize a boycott of the United States,
"The United States then would be forced to make a choice. It could either address its fossil-fuel addiction ... or ... accept continual descent into second-rate and third-rate economic well-being."
This crank has been making climate change predictions for decades, telling an author in 1988 that in 20 years, New York’s West Side Highway would be under water and crime would rise because it would be warmer. This winter New York's problem has been snow removal.
What is it with the pampered beneficiaries of American exceptionalism? Tom Friedman, NY Times columnist and husband of a real estate heiress (who lives large in Maryland) admires China’s rulers’ ability to make decisions unhampered by the wishes of the people they rule. And now a leading government official would like to see China force America to its knees because Americans are skeptical enough of his doomsday predictions that they won’t give up their lifestyles while their betters live like kings. But, as Michael Barone points out, there is nothing new under the sun. In the 1920s Progressives admired ...
Mussolini, we were told then, made the trains run on time. He drained the Pontine marshes. He got things done while Americans, with their chaotic democratic politics, dithered.
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Does Mr. Hanson give us the date that China stopped using fossil fuels, and what have the very smart and forward looking Chinese replaced them with?
"It remains to be seen of anything can embarrass the shrinking band of global warmists."
Well, as the ones who joined the cause just 'cause "all the cool kids were doing it!" peel off, the remainder are going to get more concentrated, so to speak, so one should expect that after a while only the serious die-hards will be left.
IOW, as the pool shrinks, the ability to feel embarrassment at, or even question their central beliefs will evaporate as well.
So, no. Nothing can embarrass them.
BTW, is Mr. Hansen talking about the China that's building coal plants at a record pace, or is he perhaps referring to the other China, the one that's building nuclear plants everywhere? He really should clarify this.
I would suggest that the disinformers on this blog have a connection to the fossil fuel industry. the noise you hear here is the last gasp of the corporate funded megaphone trying despertly to confuse the public about the truth behind climate change science.Check out,for example,Climate Progress" for a reasoned scientific approch to our climate delima'I did and I no longer follow the mindless pawns of the fossil fuel industry and the flat Earth society..
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