According to News.com.au NASA's James Hansen has told Barack Obama that Australia is destroying much of life on earth.
Reporting which is accurate only in certain aspects.
A draft document by Hansen does make this claim:
(3) Other cases are described on my Columbia University web site, e.g., Switzerland finances construction of coal plants, Sweden builds them, and Australia exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so large as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet.
However, the final document does not mention Australia in this context and, more importantly, this letter has not yet been delivered to the President-Elect.
Either way, Hansen is drawing a very long bow when he initially blames one of the smaller total greenhouse gas emitters for much of the global destruction and News Ltd is guilty of misrepresenting Hansen's final position in the quoted letter.
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