Intrepid Nan invades China with her global outlook.

…Pelosi linked global warming to environmental justice, saying the right to a clean environment is also a human right.

“I do see this opportunity for climate change to be … a game-changer,” she said at Tsinghua. “It’s a place where human rights — looking out for the needs of the poor in terms of climate change and healthy environment — are a human right.”

China has 1.3 billion people, 900 million of whom live in poverty. Real poverty — not the cell-phone-owning, Food-Stamp-spending variety of poverty capitalism has made possible in the USA.

Seriously, does she think people subsisting on scraps care one bit about scary projections from western computer models?

To achieve this, Pelosi said governments would have to make decisions and choices based on science.

“They also have to do it with openness, transparency and accountability to the people,” she said. “Everyone has to have their situation improved by it.”

Echoes of H.G. Wells and the early Progressives whose faith in science — and a willingness to impose its dictates on everyone, like it or not.

In answering a question from a student about how Pelosi was going to get Americans to cut back on their carbon emissions, the leading Democratic lawmaker said it was important to educate children on how to conserve energy and for citizens to build more environmentally friendly homes.

“We have so much room for improvement,” she said. “Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory … of how we are taking responsibility.”