Posted on 02/12/2007 6:09:00 AM PST by pissant
Edited on 02/12/2007 1:34:05 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a 'Myth' - Questions Gore's Sanity
Mon Feb 12 2007 09:10:09 ET
Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis.
In an interview with "Hospodárské noviny", a Czech economics daily, Klaus answered a few questions:
Q: IPCC has released its report and you say that the global warming is a false myth. How did you get this idea, Mr President?•
A: It's not my idea. Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. Also, it's an undignified slapstick that people don't wait for the full report in May 2007 but instead respond, in such a serious way, to the summary for policymakers where all the "but's" are scratched, removed, and replaced by oversimplified theses.• This is clearly such an incredible failure of so many people, from journalists to politicians. If the European Commission is instantly going to buy such a trick, we have another very good reason to think that the countries themselves, not the Commission, should be deciding about similar issues.•
Q: How do you explain that there is no other comparably senior statesman in Europe who would advocate this viewpoint? No one else has such strong opinions...•
A: My opinions about this issue simply are strong. Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.
• Q: But you're not a climate scientist. Do you have a sufficient knowledge and enough information?•
A: Environmentalism as a metaphysical ideology and as a worldview has absolutely nothing to do with natural sciences or with the climate. Sadly, it has nothing to do with social sciences either. Still, it is becoming fashionable and this fact scares me. The second part of the sentence should be: we also have lots of reports, studies, and books of climatologists whose conclusions are diametrally opposite.• Indeed, I never measure the thickness of ice in Antarctica. I really don't know how to do it and don't plan to learn it. However, as a scientifically oriented person, I know how to read science reports about these questions, for example about ice in Antarctica. I don't have to be a climate scientist myself to read them. And inside the papers I have read, the conclusions we may see in the media simply don't appear. But let me promise you something: this topic troubles me which is why I started to write an article about it last Christmas. The article expanded and became a book. In a couple of months, it will be published. One chapter out of seven will organize my opinions about the climate change.• Environmentalism and green ideology is something very different from climate science. Various findings and screams of scientists are abused by this ideology.•
Q: How do you explain that conservative media are skeptical while the left-wing media view the global warming as a done deal?•
A: It is not quite exactly divided to the left-wingers and right-wingers. Nevertheless it's obvious that environmentalism is a new incarnation of modern leftism.•
Q: If you look at all these things, even if you were right ...•
A: ...I am right...•
Q: Isn't there enough empirical evidence and facts we can see with our eyes that imply that Man is demolishing the planet and himself?•
A: It's such a nonsense that I have probably not heard a bigger nonsense yet.•
Q: Don't you believe that we're ruining our planet?•
A: I will pretend that I haven't heard you. Perhaps only Mr Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person can't. I don't see any ruining of the planet, I have never seen it, and I don't think that a reasonable and serious person could say such a thing. Look: you represent the economic media so I expect a certain economical erudition from you. My book will answer these questions. For example, we know that there exists a huge correlation between the care we give to the environment on one side and the wealth and technological prowess on the other side. It's clear that the poorer the society is, the more brutally it behaves with respect to Nature, and vice versa.• It's also true that there exist social systems that are damaging Nature - by eliminating private ownership and similar things - much more than the freer societies. These tendencies become important in the long run. They unambiguously imply that today, on February 8th, 2007, Nature is protected uncomparably more than on February 8th ten years ago or fifty years ago or one hundred years ago.• That's why I ask: how can you pronounce the sentence you said? Perhaps if you're unconscious? Or did you mean it as a provocation only? And maybe I am just too naive and I allowed you to provoke me to give you all these answers, am I not? It is more likely that you actually believe what you say.
[English translation from Harvard Professor Lubos Motl]
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I guess that makes him a Holocaust Denier, too?
I think I just made my summer vacation plans.
keep in mind the term "global warming" is going away in favor of "climate change"..since the moonbats simply cannot explain the frigid weather nowadays with "warming", the "climate change" term encompasses extreme heat, extreme cold, melting ice, excessive ice, tides, rising ocean levels, receding ocean levels, and the colts winning the super bowl..in other words, everything is now mans fault through "climate change"..
Cats and Dogs, living together. . . . . .
dogs chasing cats..
I think we should all praise the IPCC for solving the global warming problem. Before their report we were in the middle of one of the mildest winters ever. Since the report, we have not seen tempretures above freezing and are due for another large snowfall. Thank you IPCC for fixing the 'problem'!
Those who believe people caused global warming naïve, says president's spokesman
President Vaclav Klaus's spokesman Petr Hajek has hit out at an event on Thursday evening in which lights in several European capitals were turned out for five minutes as a protest against the wasting of energy and global warming, the iDnes website reported. Mr Hajek told reporters the event was ridiculous, saying that people who believed the warnings of scientists about global warming were naïve. President Klaus has himself questioned whether human civilisation is responsible for global warming.
http://www.radio.cz/en/news/87955
(excerpt above about halfway down page)
Saw a show on the National Geographic channel that speculated that global warming is going to lead to global cooling.
You left out male pattern baldness.........
I suppose the Czech President must have somewhat limited experience with Algore.
He is, after all, QUESTIONING Algore's sanity.
Most of us, here in the USA, have worked out the answers to the questions about Algore's sanity.
But the Czech President is a smart guy ... when he examines all the data on Algore, I have no doubt that his questions will be answered.
Even the former Commies know a kook when they see one...
Czechs made good tanks, even better firearms.
http://www.czusa.com/
A BREATH of FRESH AIR in a Fantasy World of Myth! Gore is a Squirel with a nut in his mouth.
"keep in mind the term "global warming" is going away in favor of "climate change"..since the moonbats simply cannot explain the frigid weather nowadays with "warming", the "climate change" term encompasses extreme heat, extreme cold, melting ice, excessive ice, tides, rising ocean levels, receding ocean levels, and the colts winning the super bowl..in other words, everything is now mans fault through "climate change".."
YOU FORGOT TO ADD THE ABSENCE OF KILLER HURRICANES IN THE GULF OF MEXICO LAST YEAR. This one really gets the "...yeah, but's" going!
Sounds like the problem is self-correcting. We're saved!
The nut cases on the Weather Channel this weekend said that global warming is also the cause of the cold that is currently sweeping the nation. Even though we all know that it gets cold and snows in MN, WI, MI, IN, IL, IA, MO, SD, MT, ND, NE, etc. during the winter months. But, of course, it is global warming that is causing national cold.
Well, Gore can still protect us from the manbearpig.
It's a damn shame that we need counter programming to the Weather Channel.
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