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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Don't the Czechs also still maintain that Atta met with representatives of Saddam's regime in Prague?
Never mind that they observed the whole thing -- the liberal media has decided that it didn't occur. The same thing with glocal warming. The liberal media has decided that it's man-made and that's that, so Klaus must just be insane, right?
The President of the Czech Republic sounds like a reasonable guy.
Actually, there is no such thing as a "dognut" other than that attached to male dogs - the proper spelling for the food is "donut". :)
Other than that, your breakfast of choice sounds delicious.
yup, and if climate change doesn't work, they'll try something else..maybe a dual attack..global warming durin the summer when it's hot and climate change durin the winter when everyone is freezin..
It's more beautiful than ever now, as are surrounding areas. The clean-up continues, and as more old buildings are repaired, this little jewel sparkles ever more. I just returned yesterday from my latest visit with my Czech family ( and spent 3 hours on JFK's tarmac last night - Oh joy!).
One of our local friends remarked that the town squares throughout the Czech lands have probably never looked better. Over the centuries, homes were occupied by families and businesses, going through their normal cycles of wear and repair. At any given moment, some percentage of homes in an area would be occupied by elderly folks or those who had fallen on hard times. Those homes might not be in top condition. However, during the socialist era, all the properties declined, resulting in the dreary state of ill repair some of us remember. The result of nearly 20 years of freedom is that the most visible of these properties have been repaired and spruced up. The town squares are full of centuries-old homes and business in various shades of pink, yellow, tan, black/white, green, blue, etc. Some of them remind me of a wedding cake, with all the soft pretty colors and trimmings. Great place to visit; lovely people (of course I'm biased!).
Then 400 people started calling them dognuts. Then on our day off, we would go to a bar (which is really a restaurant in Spain). "Cafe con leche una dognut, por favor." We said that in English, pastries are called dognuts. So, eventually, Spanish restaurants had dognuts on their breakfast menu. Botine's in Madrid had them on their menu. For a week. They eventually found out guys from Torrejon Air Base pulled off a prank, and those people looked at us somewhat funny when we stopped by again:) Amairicans!
That's the history of 'dognuts'.
That's a good story. Thanks for sharing ...
After that one, the Spanish people kept a sharp eye on the USAF guys for pranks. They are not stupid people. I knew about a plan to get unauthorized Spanish women running around the place. I distanced myself from that idea very fast. Those guys got kicked out fast.
There are logical limits to how stupid you can get.
A man who is on to the global waring scam..
Algore, the bloviating spewer of hot gas into the atmosphere, is a lunatic who wants to be the leader of a new false relidious cult.
Manbearpig is real! LOL
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