Tokyo's boss still actually believes that trace amounts of CO2 drive the Earth's climate

Tokyo's Cantankerous Boss Takes On Global Warming - washingtonpost.com

In any case, Ishihara thinks it is too late to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change.

"I personally believe we are not going to make it in time," he said.

That does not mean that Ishihara -- whose city of nearly 13 million people will be half-swallowed by the rising sea by 2050, if worst-case predictions come true -- intends to stand by quietly and let Tokyo slip into a warm, wet grave.

He has bullied the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly into setting binding limits on greenhouse-gas emissions in his city, which is home to one in 10 Japanese.