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
Red China is rapidly cornering the solar photovoltaic panel market… But they are installing very little solar generating capacity in their own country.
Why? Solar costs 5 to 10 times as much per MW installed capacity as coal and gas plants do. Red China isn’t dumb enough to pay more for energy than they have to; but they can build solar panels cheaper than anyone else and they have a huge market of gullible customers in the West.
H.R. says:
January 18, 2011 at 2:53 am
Bingo! And I’d prefer at least half of them were nuclear.
Don’t you wish that is just all too much for him and Jones et al and that they couldn’t bear the strain any longer and paid the ultimate sacrifice?
James Hansen appears to becoming more and more of a fanatic like other dictatorial fanatics we recall in recent history. With his eagerness to break with democracy and support anti-democratic actions such as activley trying to close down power stations in both America and the U.K., I do hope the British government will refuse any further attempts by him to come to the U.K for illegal and un-democratic purposes, and treat him as an undesirable alien.
Mike Haseler :3.26am
Very perceptive comment. It does seem as if they have gone over the edge.
I visit a number of sites most days, (WUWT first!), including AGWERs, and it would appear they are getting more and more desperate.
I do hope they will reach some sort of crescendo and just implode (metaphorically, of course). It’s just a question of when, really, but from mid 2007, when the first cracks appeared, it’s taking a long, long time.
At least this time he didn’t mention ‘the chilldruuuun’!
Go and live there Dr.Hansen….that culture is indeed wise. Try to convince them.
He is the very model of a modern Malthusian and much prefers authority to freedom or Confucianism.
Louis Hissink says:
January 18, 2011 at 4:00 am
Snotrocket,
Liberals have always been closet tyrants, though I hope that the John Brookes of this world don’t descend into the Pre-Columbian practice of human sacrifice to placate their deities. If they do then the likes you and I are in deep poo-doo.
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Anytime they show up here, it is they that would be sacrificed.
The Chinese government has killed more people on this planet than any other.
Supporting China is pure evil.
The 50-70 million dead Chinese, killed under Mao, nicely falsify the Hansen theory don’t they.
Probably pointless to show all the the horror of Chinese life under tyranny. Why do liberals boot lick their brethren commies? It’s one of the mysteries of life.
And here I thought it was truth seeking science we were after … but when the truth goes bad ….
Elite Intellectual Scientists willing to buddy up with the Communists to save the world from Certain Global Destruction.
I’ve seen old science fiction movies featuring that, crappy B-grade ones like late night locally-produced shows and MST3K would feature. Heck, I may have seen some recycled newsreel footage of it, featuring the House Un-American Activities Committee.
They never ended well. Have we learned nothing from history?
It seems that he really believes in Global Warming!….
In this era of impending dramatic budget cuts, I would like to thank Dr. Hansen for self nominating himself and his organization for the axe. Although his approach is somewhat unorthodox, calling attention to it as an organization that needs to be killed is appreciated.
(I denounce myself for eliminationist language.)
Louis Hissink says:
January 18, 2011 at 2:46 am
To stop Hansen’s agenda one needs to demolish his belief that the Venusian temperature is due to a runaway greenhouse gas effect. Until that happens, it’s all hot air being contributed by both sides.
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funny that he left cos that program was canned,
later someone else oversaw the Venus probe I thought?
so
who? and what? was the results..
funny no one ever mentions it, and yet Hansens wikibio states he USES that THEORY…as his basis for saying co2 dun it…
Interesting piece, this! Mr. Michaels brings this to our attention on Benjamin Franklin’s birthday in 1706. Mr. Franklin famously compared Monarchy, the totalitarian governmental form of his time, with the democratic republic form he helped to establish. The Monarchy can be represented as a full-rigged Man-O’-War with the captain on the quarterdeck, each crewman at his station and the flags and pennants flying in a beautiful display. Democracy is like a cargo raft – ugly and almost unmaneuverable. When they strike an uncharted reef, howevr, H.M. Ship of the Line sinks, whereas the raft bumps on around it.
Mr. Hansen, a smart fellow no doubt, likes to think that because he thinks that he’s thought this AGW thing through it must be right, and the Luddites that oppose his agenda are simplletons in need of stern guidance. It’s so much more efficient that way. Absence of the tropical tropopause ‘hot spot’, possibly declining sea level for 2010, ‘forcing factors’ values pulled out of thin air, effects of non-terrestrial factors on cloud cover, a new coal-fired plant per week in China – these are to him mere disputes about the value of the n-th significant digit.
The raft we ride and try to guide will follow the river, whether we want it to or no. The raft of science – of shared human knowledge – will float on without him and the other successors to Trofim Lysenko. Have faith, and go where the data take you.
Tom, MD, PhD
evergreen? a usa maker of solar cells took 45 MIL in handouts from the usa govt and now?
is offshoring to china…
and the astute commenter above..who reminds us M Strong is in china, yes and still meddling everywhere else.
He proposes the “shut up” policy:
Aw, Jim is just being a sore loser. He had visions of saving the planet, which, by the way, didn’t pan out.
He has something to be thankful for, however, as China would not tolerate him going on the way he does.
What utter nonsense! I bet that there is a Hanson quotation from the late Seventies to early Eighties which explains that the Japanese government is wiser and in all ways superior to the American government as evidenced in the success of Toyota, etc. The man simply does not have the good judgement that is required of an administrator in his position.
Perhaps Jimmy should take a tour of Arlington National Cemetery, preferably in the presence of relatives of those who are buried there.
David Middleton says:
January 18, 2011 at 4:27 am
“Red China is rapidly cornering the solar photovoltaic panel market… But they are installing very little solar generating capacity in their own country.
……………………………. but they can build solar panels cheaper than anyone else and they have a huge market of gullible customers in the West.”
Well said David
Our own dear addled Energy Secretary (UK), is running a scheme which allows the well healed to invest approx 18000 GBP in photovoltaics, with a guaranteed 8% return on capital. This is funded by increased prices paid by the less well off consumer who can’t afford that sort of outlay. Progressive or what?
Richard S Courtney says:
January 18, 2011 at 1:50 am
Why was Hansen not fired? Can someone explain?
Shevva says:
January 18, 2011 at 2:47 am
“He really is going down in history as the Dr.Evil character, does that make old Phil Jones mini-me?”
This has become a recurring image. The entire Environmental Left seems hellbent on painting themselves as Dr. Evil or minion.
I do not understand the government of the USA’s collective reasoning in allowing this egregious alarmist to make such blatantly dishonest and ant-democratic public pronouncements. Ranting against the very foundations of his own country seems treasonous at best to me. Or have I missed something?
I totally agree with you . .
This is getting a bit scary now chaps. You Americans need to get back on track because a lot of us out here in Not America have first hand experience of what the Chinese “model” is like and we really don’t like it at all.
America and the American way are the clear hope for Earth and these types who like anything that is not America are going to do a lot of damage. This effete attitude of dissing the USA while enjoying all of the benefits of living there is disgraceful.
Get a grip.
“I smell a rat. A big, fat, commie rat.”
— General “Buck” Turgidson