Patrick J. MICHAELS: China-style dictatorship of climatologists
NASA’s Hansen prefers rule by decree to fight ‘global warming’
Excerpts: From the Washington Times Monday, January 17, 2011
November’s election made it quite clear that the people of the United States do not want to radically change our society in the name of global warming. Pretty much every close House race went to the Republicans, while the Democrats won all the Senate squeakers. The difference? The House on June 26, 2009, passed a bill limiting carbon-dioxide emissions and getting into just about every aspect of our lives. The Senate did nothing of the sort.
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.
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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.”
Read the whole story at the Washington Times
h/t to Leif Svalgaard
“I’m pretty sure that trolls like you two have been well trained (and I’ve seen the way it’s done) in how to attract/divert attack.”
Have you? Crikey!
Well, I doubt anything I can say (such as the truth that, no, I haven’t been trained by anyone, ever, how to attract/divert attention) will convince me of my innocence in that regard.
Damn! They’ve found out about the secret troll training school!
The level of abuse from Snotrocket is a bit over the top. Its almost as though you don’t want alternative points of view on this site. I might go back to Jo Nova where they are more civil.
I am new to this site.
I am a “denier” of sorts (no scientific background and minimal intelligence) but I do beleive that if you denegrade “believers” such as Hansen, Mann etc instead of sticking to the science then you/we will lose this crazy battle.
Logic should prevail. Emotional reponses such as I have read here only so doubt in the laymsns mind.
[Odd. We actually have very few”deniers” here. Robt]