The Sydney Morning Herald: Czech Republic - Vaclav Klaus: Beware the church of climate alarm - by Miranda Devine
Czech President Vaclav Klaus "Dr. Strangelove"
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Czech Republic - Vaclav Klaus: Beware the church of climate alarm - by Miranda Devine
"As the Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, an economist, anti-totalitarian and climate change sceptic, prepares to take up the rotating presidency of the European Union next year, climate alarmists are doing their best to traduce him. The New York Times opened a profile of Klaus, 67, this week with a quote from a 1980s communist secret agent's report, claiming he behaves like a "rejected genius", and asserts there is "palpable fear" he will "embarrass" the EU. But the real fear driving climate alarmists wild is that a more rational approach to the fundamentalist religion of global warming may be in the ascendancy - whether in the parliamentary offices of the world's largest trading bloc or in the living rooms of Blacktown."
As the global financial crisis takes hold, perhaps people are starting to wonder whether the so-called precautionary principle, which would have us accept enormous new taxes in the guise of an emissions trading scheme and curtail economic growth, is justified, based on what we actually know about climate.
Note EU-Digest: The viewpoint of Sydney Morning Herald's Miranda Devine is a typical conservative corporate reaction, protecting corporate interests above the environment and long term human needs. The fact is that Mr. Klaus, the ceremonial non-universally elected President of the Czech Republic, is considered a "Dr.Stangelove" by many politicians in Europe and by a large number of people in his own country. Unfortunately the Czech Republic will take over the 6 months rotational EU Presidency from France in January. This will provide Mr. Klaus with a "soap-box" to spout all his nonsensical theories about the EU, politics and the environment. But.... eventually its all to the benefit of freedom of expression, still alive and well in Europe.
Labels: Czech Republic, Environment, EU, Pollution and the environment, Vaclav Klaus
