Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change

Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change
Posted : Tue, 27 May 2008 21:21:02 GMT
Author : DPA


Washington - Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms. "I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he's not too much willing to make such a conversation," Klaus said. "So I'm ready to do it."

Klaus was speaking a the National Press Building in Washington to present his new book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles - What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?, before meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday.

"My answer is it is our freedom and, I might add, and our prosperity," he said.

Gore a former US vice president who has become a leading international voice in the cause against global warming, was co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Gore's effort was highlighted by his Oscar winning documentary film An Inconvienent Truth.

Klaus, an economist, said he opposed the "climate alarmism" perpetuated by environmentalism trying to impose their ideals, comparing it to the decades of communist rule he experienced growing up in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.

"Like their (communist) predecessors, they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality," he said.

"In the past, it was in the name of the Marxists or of the proletariat - this time, in the name of the planet," he added.

Klaus said a free market should be used to address environmental concerns and said he oppposed as unrealistic regulations or greenhouse gas capping systems designed to reduce the impact of climate change.

"It could be even true that we are now at a stage where mere facts, reason and truths are powerless in the face of the global warming propaganda," he said.

Klaus alleged that the global warming was being championed by scientists and other environmentalists whose careers and funding requires selling the public on global warming.

"It is in the hands of climatologists and other related scientists who are highly motivated to look in one direction only," Klaus said.

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This should be interesting to say the least. I'm not no genius but I think Gore is well just full of shit and has his mind on the money side of his argument.

Gore is full of it all right. I do beleive we are having a climate change, but I'm more incline to think it's from the coming pole shift, or the sun cycle. I watched Al's movie and saw no smoking gun to make be think it's from our carbon. If he was right than why are the ice caps on mars also melting? He never addressed this in his movie. I've been reading alot about global cooling, and how we maybe facing another ice age many years ahead. But one way or another we are facing the effects of global climate change. I just wish somone would come up with a clear answer to what is really going on with our climate. But you see, keeping us misinformed and hiding the true facts is a way to keep feeding people more fear. Using fear to get us to go along with a carbon tax. And to control our behavior.

Global warming is a con meant to be a lead in for the proposed solution which is going to be global governance or steps in that direction.