Bridges Trade BioRes • Volume 9 • Number 2 • 6th February 2009
No Such Thing as Global Warming says Czech President
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Climate change does not exist according to Czech President Václav Klaus. The controversial comments emerged at a 31 January meeting that was held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Klaus has long been a harsh critic of environmental activism. In an op-ed in the Financial Times in 2007, the Czech president said that ‘ambitious environmentalism’ constituted “the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity.” But because Klaus’ government now holds the rotating EU presidency, these latest comments are causing consternation among many environmental groups.
“I don’t think that there is any global warming…I don’t see the statistical data for that,” Klaus said at the Davos meeting. The president said he does not believe the findings of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which concluded in 2007 that there is a less than 5 percent chance that natural processes alone are causing the recorded rise in global temperatures.
Klaus specifically took aim at former US Vice President Al Gore, a prominent climate change campaigner. “Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement.”
Klaus emphasized that he is concerned that climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives could prevent economies from bouncing back from the current financial meltdown. “I’m afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world,” he said.
ICTSD reporting; “Le réchauffement climatique n’existe pas, affirme le président tchèque,” LE MONDE, 31 January 2009; “Czech president attacks Al Gore’s climate campaign,” AFP, 1 February 2009; “Freedom, not climate, is at risk,” THE FINANCIAL TIMES, 13 June 2007.
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Congratulations to Czech President Václav Klaus for having the courage to spell out the truth at a time when the left is ready to crucify anyone who does their lies.
In agreement with Klaus, more than 650 international scientists dissent over the man-made global warming claims. They are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2674e64f-802a-23ad-490b-bd9faf4dcdb7
Additionally, more than 31,000 American scientists have signed onto a petition that states, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate…” http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html
“Progressive” (communist) politicians like Obama seem determined to force us to swallow the man-made global warming scam. We need to defend ourselves from the UN and these politicians, who threaten our future and the future of our children. Based on a lie, they have already wasted millions and plan to increase taxes, limit development, and enslave us.
If not stopped, the global warming scam will enrich the scammers (Gore and Obama’ Wall Street friends), increase the power of the U.N. and communists like Obama, and multiply poverty and servitude for the rest of us.
The so-called american “scientists” who signed those no-global-warming petitions, the majority of them are not even scientists or are just people with scientific studies now working as PR and so on for big oil companies and alike. On the other hand the 52 scientists of IPCC represents the majority of the scientific community and their report results from the compilation and analysis of thousands of studies previously conducted by other scientists worldwide, and was itself subject to peer-review by the rest of the scientific community, who validated its findings.
Science is not perfect and we might indeed conclude that we were mistaken, but now this is the best scientific evidence we have and no matter if it is being used to serve political interests, the problem lies in society and not on science - how facts are interpreted and misused.
Anyway, capitalism, free market and unregulated development is a disaster than needs to be stopped anyhow, so I don’t feel any sympathy for those who still cling to it as if it was the best thing in the world. Even if it is not causing global warming it is for sure causing the collapse of our natural resources, diminishing our life span and health and enslaving us more and more - in a more vicious way than any communism or ecologism or any other -ism that ever existed. This -ism is the worth so far. And by fighting it doesn’t mean we have to go back to communism. There are so many other ways to do things. Why do people still see the world as a fight between capitalism and communism? Try learn about PROUT, for instance or any other socio-economic model proposals out there. Try to think out of the box.