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| Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change |
| 2008-05-28 |
| 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." Sorry, Vaclav. He prefers preaching to the choir. He'll only get into a battle of wits with you if he thinks you're unarmed. 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. Well, powerless in the face of the idiot who have some strange compulsion to swallow that very same propaganda hook, line, and sinker anyway. We call them self-haters. You will recognize them by the hair shirts they are so fond of wearing to assuage the guilt they like to carry around with them because it makes them feel so good in some perverted way. 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. And I thought I was the only one who noticed that. Bad scientists. Bad. Maybe research topics ought to be passed around on some kind of a random in-one's-field basis. "It is in the hands of climatologists and other related scientists who are highly motivated to look in one direction only," Klaus said. Ya think? Just do some kind of study along these lines and present it. The results ought to be interesting. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #2 The Goreacle has spoken: Global warming is fact. It is caused by the CO2 created by humans. There is no debate. All debate is settled. So shut up and give him money. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-05-28 11:46 |
| #1 Sounds like president Klaus is intimately familiar with the watermelons (green outside, red inside, mushy center)that make up much of the global warming crowd. |
| Posted by: RWV 2008-05-28 09:09 |