Czech President Questions Global Warming Yet Again As He Attacks Al Gore’s Climate Campaign
Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who is also the current President of the European Union, has once again voiced his skepticism about global warming.
At an event at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, the Czech President said he doubts that global warming is actually occurring and that many scientists fail to consider alternative theories regarding the issue. He also attacked former US Vice President and environmental activist, Al Gore, of failing to look at the complete picture in regard to the global phenomenon.
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The Czech President didn’t mince his words in questioning the legitimacy of the scientific community’s concerns regarding global warning.
I don’t think that there is any global warming, I don’t see the statistical data for that. I’m very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them.
Mr. Klaus would also be giving a keynote speech at a meeting of ‘global warming skeptics’ in New York. As the Czech President gets ready to take over the post of EU President it would be interesting to see if the European Union faces any hurdles in passing important policies regarding emissions control and use of renewable energy. The timing of his Presidency become even more crucial as EU prepares the agenda for the Copenhagen talks to discuss the fine print of the next climate treaty.
Given that the EU recently unveiled a new plan to curb greenhouse gas levels by 30% below 1990 levels by 2020 and provide billions of dollars in aid to developing countries, Klaus hardly seems like the man to lead the EU – even if it is only a largely ceremonial position. Brokering the compromises with countries like China and India that will be needed to ensure the success of the upcoming Copenhagen climate talks could be made needlessly more difficult.
It is highly unfortunate that instead of taking strong actions the world leaders are still debating if we really have a crisis at our hands. It is very important the world leaders join hands and act decisively to improve the state of the environment, control carbon emissions, ensure energy security and increase use of renewable energy.
It is time for action rather than questions. Mr. Klaus said that he is more concerned about the consequences of the actions that are being taken to reduce the global carbon emissions rather than the consequences of not acting to mitigate the adverse effects of the changing climate. According to a recent report the world would require only a percent of its GDP to reduce the carbon emissions.
World leaders, and skeptics especially, must understand that it’s not just about the rising temperatures or melting ice caps or record weather fluctuations around the globe. Investing in green technologies would not only create jobs and kick start the tanking economies but would also help countries to improve their air, water and land qualities – a recent study found that even the European countries do not meet the set air quality standards.
It’s an issue about energy security, one which Europe is very much aware of; it’s an issue of constant supply of food and water – many parts of the world are already suffering from severe water crisis add to that the numerous long-term drought warnings given by scientists some of which are already coming true and many experts believe that the recent food crisis was just a glimpse what the future holds for us.
Rising carbon emissions, which result in global warming, is only a part of the larger problem, the problem of over exploitation of nature and its resources. And now we have a chance to use an integrated approach through which we can tackle this problem. Investing in green technologies would
- improve the air quality which would in turn increase the life expectancy.
- help reduce our dependencies on imported fuel thus helping end the monopoly of few countries over vital resources.
- help nature rejuvenate itself so that we can use it instead of abusing it and preserve it for our future generations.
- help preserve the valuable biodiversity of our planet.
- help us fighting natural disasters like floods, hurricanes.
The solutions to the problems we are facing today are simple but the most important thing is our will power to act and grab this opportunity to correct all the wrongs we have been committed through the over exploitation of the nature.
It is clearly evident that mankind it now testing the very limits of its environment’s carrying capacity. resources are being used at unprecedented pace which is not only generating tremendous amounts of waste but is also causing accelerated depletion of the natural resources. It is time that the world moves its basis of growth from fast depleting fossil fuels to the abundant and clean renewable resources.
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At last there are courageous leaders like Václav Klaus who dare contradict the brainwashed lemmings desperate to believe any communist hoax, including the ridiculous global warming hoax.
Man-made global warming is a hoax that threatens our future and the future of our children. Václav Klaus, president of the European Union, is right when he states that “environmentalism is the new communism and climate change is a myth.”
In agreement with Klaus, more than 650 international scientists dissent over the man-made global warming claims. They are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2674e64f-802a-23ad-490b-bd9faf4dcdb7
Additionally, more than 31,000 American scientists have signed onto a petition that states, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate…” http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html
“Progressive” (communist) politicians like Obama seem determined to force us to swallow the man-made global warming scam. We need to defend ourselves from the UN and these politicians, who threaten our future and the future of our children. Based on a lie, they have already wasted millions and plan to increase taxes, limit development, and enslave us.
If not stopped, the global warming scam will enrich the scammers (Gore and Obama’ Wall Street friends), increase the power of the U.N. and communists like Obama, and multiply poverty and servitude for the rest of us.
I don’t know that it’s a deliberate hoax or conspiracy, but I do know that circumstances like the record snowfall in Britain at least make me raise an eyebrow.
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Europe/2009/feb/Worst-Snowfall-in-20-Years-Shuts-Down-Much-of-Southern-England.html
Its funny how all of a sudden global warming is a hoax. Noone friggin cared when they were teaching us how real it was all throughout middle school, high school & even college. Crazy hardcore politicial whores…
Glad to hear somebody making some sense. This whole global warming thing is probably the biggest scam during my lifetime. The media and some politicians will have you believe that that every scientist believes that there is man-induced global warming. That’s just not the case at all. The truth is that there is a bigger social agenda behind the whole global warming lie. I just read that now they are using “global warming” to try to control population. Check this article out: http://www.modernconservative.com/blog.php?id=2885
Nothing like a bit of snow to bring out the climate change deniers. What I truly don’t understand is why they so fiercely defend the continued use of fossil fuels. Is it that they love to import tankers full of oil to pay people who they will later claim to be terrorist so that they can buy more missiles to blow up the people who sold them the oil to keep their cars running? Nice sentence! Anyway, get a grip, breathe the air, look at the landfill the planet has become and tell me that nothing needs to change.
“Anyway, get a grip, breathe the air, look at the landfill the planet has become and tell me that nothing needs to change.”
There’s no doubt that it will benefit everybody to clean up the environment. I’m for it and I try and practice it in my life. However, that doesn’t excuse the lies about “global warming” from the media and some politicians.
“What I truly don’t understand is why they so fiercely defend the continued use of fossil fuels.”
Perhaps it has something to do with protecting our livelihoods from needless attack. Civilization has always progressed on the harnessing of useable energy at a reasonable cost. If this were not true then nobody would be worried about finding green energy solutions as a replacement for fossil fuels. You will notice that nobody is proposing (too openly, anyway) that we turn out the lights.
It really comes down to this basic fact: the global warming belief leads to policies that will impoverish to some degree the human race—especially the have-nots. Throwing away our precious, enriching resources because of an undemonstrated and misunderstood theory is reckless behavior. Condemning our poorest neighbors to further poverty in order to prop up our own consciences is dangerous. Rent-seeking and profiteering from these same policies is criminal behavior.
So before you ask all of us to take drastic action that will demonstrably impoverish generations of human beings please make sure your facts are at least demonstrated to a high degree of confidence.
I consider myself to be an environmentalist. NOx, SOx, soot, fly ash, particulates, and much, much more are pollutants when released into our air. Let’s keep them out as much as possible, even using legislation.
CO2 is a fertilizer, and is a necessity for life as we know it. Leave it alone.
Lastly, please do not mix your well-founded concerns about war and terrorism with the global warming debate. The pacifist argument does not make the world grow any warmer, and it does not validate your climate theory. It may be a valid reason for seeking out alternatives to Middle East oil, but it has nothing to do with CO2 in the atmosphere.
Thank you all for the comments.
Firstly, What is happening in Britain is a weather phenomenon and is unprecedented in nature as is the on going drought and severe heat wave in Australia which led to scores of deaths. These are massive weather fluctuations which haven’t been seen in the recent past. But unprecedented weather fluctuations have become bit common in last few years. Additionally, according to a recent study all seasons are now arriving 2 days earlier as compared to the last century.
The purpose of this article is not to debate if global warming is true or not, maybe it isn’t. But we cannot deny the fact that we are over exploiting the nature. We are testing the limits of our environment’s carrying capacity. The way we are using the natural resources is not a sustainable one. Last year we had a food crisis and many developed countries (like Australia and Spain) are facing scarcity of water.
Yes oil and other fossil fuels are cheap but not abundant plus they give strategic leverage to few countries (i know this has nothing to do with global warming but this is an extremely significant issue and is a strong driver for the issue of energy security). Taking the example of Nicaragua, a poor country. Few decades ago Nicaragua produced 70% of its total energy from renewable sources which is now down to 34% thanks to an oil deal with Venezuela.
Even if you believe that global warming is hoax we still have plenty of other problems which require us to invest into green technologies. And this is what i tried to present in this article. We must invest in green technology so that our negative impact on the environment is reduced which is in a critical state right now.
Fossil fuels are not beneficial for the environment and us in the long term even if they seem to make perfect economic sense right now. Replacing them with abundant renewable energy sources which would a) make environment clean b) help create jobs and boost economy c) help nations become energy independent makes perfect sense in the long term. And that is the reason the world leaders must unite in the effort to ensure that we take a path of sustainable growth.
Mr. Chadha-
You must be joking with the last post, those were some of the most ridiculous arguments I’ve heard supporting global warming.
First off, now snow and extreme cold are evidence of global warming? There are more extremes present now? I would love to see where you sited that evidence from. Global warming advocates are really trying their best to turn this into an argument they can’t lose with logic like “Every time there is an extreme its global warming” and “If its hot its global warming, if its cold, its global warming”. But lets just say you’re right, there are more extremes now… what is your time frame? I’m guessing the last 100 years, since thats the only time that “extremes” have been monitored. Is that even relevant in the cycles of the earth? Of course not.
And I love how you somehow turned food shortages last year into a global warming argument, probably one of the funniest spins I have ever seen, especially in a time frame that everybody will remember. The actual reason there were food shortages last year was the high price of oil, which caused the US to turn a larger percentage of its corn, which is a large part of world food supply, into ethanol as fuel. This of course was lauded by global warming advocates as a great step in the right direction, and they just wanted you to forget all of the starving people. A year later, this same instance is now evidence of “global warming”. Absolutely ridiculous.
Those starving people though, are exhibit A in why this is such a stupid and dangerous theory. Americans will be fine either way, its the third world that will pay the price in starvation, increased disease, and decreased comfort. I guess its worth it though, for a bunch of people in America to feel like their “saving the world”.
What, thinking Americans are as furious as thinking Europeans about the global warming scam. More than 31,000 American scientists have signed onto a petition that states, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate…” http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html