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]
Developing...
In other words, the normal variability of our planet since it was created. Labeling natural processes a bad thing, instead of continuing the millenia-old process of adaptation is not a good commentary about humanity's spiritual and mental health.
yup..mother nature is gonna do what mother nature is gonna do..and there is nothing "climate change" fanatics can do to change it except place blame, apply for and get grant money, villify W, promote a socialist agenda (kyoto), blame W, get grant money etc...
did I mention blaming W and getting grant money??
Thank ye!
I can't speak first hand, because I have only visited about a third of Western Europe but, my daughter visited almost all of it plus the concentration camps and Eastern Europe while in College (Georgetown Walsh School of foreign Service) and I trust her judgement.
Although her second "home" was Paris most of her life, and she loved the place dearly, she flatly stated that the "most beautiful" city she had ever experienced was Prague.
I suspect that your statement has more than a bit of truth in it for most of us.
What a fabulously concise assessment of the IPCC and its work!
I like this guy already.
I have a solution for CO2 emissions. Women need to stop drinking coffee and eating dognuts:)
Good guess. Based on history, global warming will lead to global cooling which will lead to global warming which will lead to global cooling which will lead to ...
Since the extreme rising oceans have been debunked, change to inches instead of feet, what really is the downside of gobal warming? Can someone please explain?
The other question that I have is how can ozone be a pollutant, when it is just charged oxygen and very unstable? I read that it was a pollutant because it was an indicator of the presence of other pollutants. Does that mean that that the other pollutants are in too small quantities to measure, so they measure the ozone?
IF IF IF we sign kyoto, these cyclic weather patterns will cease, man will control the weather and we'll all live forever..(sarc/off)
will you please stop asking reasonable questions?? algore and heidi cullen say it's true and you must take them at their word simply because they say so..what are you, an intelligent individual or somethin?? :)
Very well said!
"You will BURN in Atheist Hell, non-believer!! (A Week with a naked Rosie O'Donnell)"
What a hellish image you just gave me. I wish I had no imagination.
Women eat dognuts ? What's the name of that recipe ? ;)
I like that trend! 8-)
If there is manmade GW it is due to there being over 6 billion souls currently alive on... "the planet". There's only one solution to that and I haven't heard any of these whackos go there yet.
the "global warming" crowd were predicting "global cooling" in the 70's
these geniuses have about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine. LOL
Wow, he really told it like it is.
I like this leader.
Don't you just LOVE it when you have political leaders who will dismiss all the mealy mouthed garbage and just speak?
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