MythBuster
Count Czech president Vaclav Klaus as a skeptic of the IPCC report. Here’s the transcript of an interview he did with a Czech economics daily. Here’s some noteworthy quotes from the interview:
Q: IPCC has released its report and you say that the global warming is a false myth. How did you get this idea, Mr President?•A: It’s not my idea. Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it’s a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It’s neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. Also, it’s an undignified slapstick that people don’t wait for the full report in May 2007 but instead respond, in such a serious way, to the summary for policymakers where all the “but’s” are scratched, removed, and replaced by oversimplified theses.• This is clearly such an incredible failure of so many people, from journalists to politicians. If the European Commission is instantly going to buy such a trick, we have another very good reason to think that the countries themselves, not the Commission, should be deciding about similar issues.
As I’ve said before, the IPCC started with a conclusion, then scrubbed the information so it fit their ‘verdict’. That isn’t science; it’s politics as usual. Here’s my favorite exchange:
Q: Don’t you believe that we’re ruining our planet?A: I will pretend that I haven’t heard you. Perhaps only Mr Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person can’t. I don’t see any ruining of the planet, I have never seen it, and I don’t think that a reasonable and serious person could say such a thing. Look: you represent the economic media so I expect a certain economical erudition from you. My book will answer these questions. For example, we know that there exists a huge correlation between the care we give to the environment on one side and the wealth and technological prowess on the other side. It’s clear that the poorer the society is, the more brutally it behaves with respect to Nature, and vice versa.
Not only does he say that Mr. Gore isn’t sane but then he dumps salt in the environmental extremists’ wounds by saying that “there exists a huge correlation between the care we give to the environment on one side and the wealth and technological prowess on the other side.” That’s the last thing that a socialist like Gore wants to hear.
I recommend you read the entire transcript.
Technorati Tags: Vaclav Klaus, Czech Republic, Global Warming, Al Gore, United Nations, IPCC
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February 13th, 2007 at 2:42 am
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February 13th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Vaclav Klaus: president (not a climate scientist) of a country that has major exports of coal. Hmmm.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Al Gore: politician who makes a living exhaling co2 and releasing methane gas, attending meetings in SUVs and private planes.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:24 am
“ the IPCC started with a conclusion, then scrubbed the information so it fit their ‘verdict’. That isn’t science”
Brilliant guy, he says that they use the deductive, medieval age science formula, whereas, the inductive is where science lays today. Therefore the left are back in the middle ages, where their agenda lays.
Al Gore is a billionaire whose house is a working global warming machine. Ha ha Fruads these people are.