Prisonplanet via hauntingthelibrary
The NASA scientist at the heart of the global warming fiasco seems set to stir more controversy after declaring in an op ed piece for The South China Morning Post and a personally published follow-up that American democracy is not competent to deal with global warming, and communist China now represents the world's "best hope".
In the op ed piece for the Chinese newspaper, which he entitled Chinese Leadership Needed to Save Humanity (published as The Price of Change) Hansen placed the blame for the vast majority of Co2 emissions supposedly causing global warming on his home country of America, and appealed to China not to follow the same path. Hansen said that China was the world's "best hope" and called for them to "lead the world through the most dangerous crisis that humanity and nature have ever faced".
In a follow-up article published on his website Hansen calls Americans "barbarians" and slams American democracy, calling for China to raise tariffs on American-made products until such time as America falls into line.
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