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James E. Hansen Rails Against Democracy And America, Praises Chinese Dictatorship
The nation's most prominent publicly funded climatologist is officially angry about democracy interfering with the anti-man made global warming agenda, and is 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.

Goddard Institute of Space Studies, NASA laboratory head James E. Hansen's anti-democracy rants were published while he was on a November junket in China, but they didn't get much attention until recently.

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 democracy.

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."

Mr. Hansen has another idea to circumvent our democracy. Because Congress is not likely to pass any legislation making carbon-based energy prohibitively expensive, he proposed, in the South China Morning Post, that China lead a boycott of our economy:

"After agreement with other nations, e.g., the European Union, China and these nations could impose rising internal carbon fees. Existing rules of the World Trade Organization would allow collection of a rising border duty on products from all nations that do not have an equivalent internal carbon fee or tax.

"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."

The WTO, in fact, has not "ruled" that it can impose environmental tariffs of any kind, much less those of such magnitude that they would destroy the world's largest economy.
Even Obama should consider firing this embarrassment, as his arrogance has been much to blame for the collapse of the anti-global warming agenda. As long as he remains at GISS, Al Gore can pound sand.
Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-18
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