Pelosi says climate change [fraud] could change U.S.-China game | Politics | Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - Ties between the United States and China could be transformed by cooperation on climate change, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, linking environmental concerns to human rights and the rule of law.

Pelosi told an audience in the Chinese capital on Tuesday that the two nations -- the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases -- must work together to fight global warming.

"China and the United States can and must confront the challenge of climate change together," she said at a meeting organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing.

"I think that this climate change crisis is a game-changer in the U.S.-China relationship. It is an opportunity that we cannot miss."

Pelosi was speaking during a visit to China with a group of U.S. lawmakers examining how the two powers can cooperate better while governments seek to agree on a new global treaty on fighting global warming from greenhouse gases.

But Pelosi, a Democrat well known as a critic of China over human rights and its rule in Tibet, also obliquely linked that concern to rights concerns, calling it a matter of "environmental justice."

Fighting global warming would require political transparency, rule of law and accountability, Pelosi told the audience, which included former Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and its current ambassador to Washington, Zhou Wenzhong.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: The global warming empire strikes back

I'll take the under on this bet. But I learned something new--one of the Editors Emeritus of the Journal of Climate is Michael Mann--so check their graphs pretty closely (Michael Mann was the fellow who produced the thoroughly discredited hockey stick graph that graced the IPCC report a few years back). Isn't he a bit young to be an Editor Emeritus?

Climate change makes for strange bedfellows

Climate change policy hysteria has led a weird combination of schizophrenia and hypocrisy. Nothing more clearly indicated this than this past weekend's G8 energy ministers' meeting in Rome. U. S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a full-blown climate alarmist who has supported draconian measures to enforce emissions reductions, including trade sanctions based on carbon tariffs, called for moderation on oil prices, lest a continued spike harm economic recovery. Does he not grasp that the alleged threat of climate change cannot possibly be "addressed" without US$300-a-barrel oil, whether that comes via the market, the tax system or such NEP-style fantasies as cap-and-trade?