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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Captain Compassion" |
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11 Dec 2007 09:32:01 AM |
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Freedom, Not Climate, is Under Threat - Czech Leader |
Freedom, Not Climate, is Under Threat - Czech Leader
http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=45904
BERLIN - The movement against global warming has turned into a new
religion, an ideology that threatens to undermine freedom and the
world's economic and social order, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said
on Monday.
Klaus was speaking to reporters at the launch of the German
translation of his new book, a sceptical look at the worldwide
campaign to stop climate change entitled "Blue Planet in Green Chains:
What Is Under Threat -- Climate or Freedom?".
"My answer to that question is unambiguous," said Klaus. "Freedom is
under threat.
"Also (threatened) is the prevailing social and economic order,
contemporary civilisation, the current prosperity of developed
countries and the chances of developing countries to achieve a similar
level of prosperity."
He said the climate change movement was not based on science and that
theories about man-made global warming could not be proven.
"It has become a new religion or new ideology and in that sense I
think it's justified to compare it with other ideologies," Klaus said.
Klaus, an economist and former Czech prime minister who championed the
free market, is one of the world's most vocal climate-change sceptics.
On Sept. 24 he gave a speech to the UN General Assembly expressing
doubts whether climate change was man-made. Several diplomats said the
UN speech irritated some small island nations and may have cost Prague
a hotly contested seat on the UN Security Council.
Klaus said the climate was constantly changing and current
developments were no exception. There was no scientific consensus on
what caused climate change, although mankind is playing a marginal
role.
He added that any likely changes to the climate "in the relevant
future" would not threaten the human race.
Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, produced by burning fossil
fuels, trap heat in the atmosphere. Scientists say that if emissions
are not curbed, sea levels will rise while drought and floods will
become more frequent.
A UN meeting in Bali running to Dec. 14 is seeking to launch talks on
a new pact to slow climate change but is split about whether to
include guidelines such as a mandatory cut in greenhouse gas emissions
by rich nations.
Klaus said the timing of his book launch was a coincidence.
He was asked if there would be a copy of the book for US President
George W. Bush, whose government is fighting in Bali against hard
targets for cutting greenhouse gases.
"He already has one," said Klaus. (Editing by Matthew Tostevin)
Story by Louis Charbonneau
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If you disagree with the theories and dogmas of Marxism or Scientific Socialism
then you are a tool of Capitalist interests. If you disagree with the theories
or dogmas of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming then you are a tool of
Capitalistic interests. Notice a pattern here? -- Captain Compassion
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
"...the whole world, including the United States, including all that
we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark
Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights
of perverted science." -- Sir Winston Churchill
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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