Prague (dpa) - Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on
global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any
scientific basis, Czech media reported Friday.

Klaus told the Hospodarske noviny daily that the panel did not include
"neutral scientists, a balanced group of scientists."

"These are politicized scientists who arrive there with one-sided opinion
and assignment," he told interviewers.

According to the Czech president, "each serious person and scientist" says
that global warming is a myth.

His comments came a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) presented its much-anticipated report which contained a
stark warning about global warming and blamed man-made emissions for the
problem.

The IPCC report, compiled by some 600 scientists from 40 countries, said
it is "very likely" that man-made greenhouse gases have caused the rise in
temperatures, reflecting a 90-per-cent certainty in the scientific
community and an upgrade from a "likely," or two-thirds certainty given in
the last IPCC report six years ago.

The British government described the UN panel report, presented in Paris
on February 2, a blow to the "climate change deniers."

US President George W Bush turned away from climate change scepticism in
this year's State of the Union speech proposing that the US cut petrol use
to fight both global warming and foreign oil dependency, and his
administration endorsed the UN panel report.

According to Klaus, "other top-level politicians" do not express their
global warming doubts because "a whip of political correctness strangles
[their] voice".

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Prague (dpa) - Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel
on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without
any scientific basis, Czech media reported Friday.

Klaus told the Hospodarske noviny daily that the panel did not include
"neutral scientists, a balanced group of scientists."

"These are politicized scientists who arrive there with one-sided
opinion and assignment," he told interviewers.

According to the Czech president, "each serious person and scientist"
says that global warming is a myth.

His comments came a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) presented its much-anticipated report which contained a
stark warning about global warming and blamed man-made emissions for the
problem.

The IPCC report, compiled by some 600 scientists from 40 countries, said
it is "very likely" that man-made greenhouse gases have caused the rise
in temperatures, reflecting a 90-per-cent certainty in the scientific
community and an upgrade from a "likely," or two-thirds certainty given
in the last IPCC report six years ago.

The British government described the UN panel report, presented in Paris
on February 2, a blow to the "climate change deniers."

US President George W Bush turned away from climate change scepticism in
this year's State of the Union speech proposing that the US cut petrol
use to fight both global warming and foreign oil dependency, and his
administration endorsed the UN panel report.

According to Klaus, "other top-level politicians" do not express their
global warming doubts because "a whip of political correctness strangles
[their] voice".

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