Czech bait

Czech pres. isn’t on board with the climate change thing 3

Václav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, thinks the whole global warming thing is a hoax:

Global warming is a myth and I think that every serious person and scientist says so. It is unfair to refer to the United Nations panel. IPCC is not a scientific body: it's a political institution, a kind of non-government organization with green flavor. It's not a forum of neutral scientists or a balanced group of scientists. Its members are politicized scientists who arrive there with one-sided sentiments and one-sided tasks.

This bit from the interview is amusing:

Q: Don't you believe that we're demolishing our planet?

A: Let me pretend that I haven't heard you. Perhaps only Mr. Al Gore can argue along these lines: a sane person hardly. I don't see any destruction of the planet, I have never seen it, and I don't think that a sensible and serious person might say that he has.

(hat tip to reader KP)

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. wedjr Posted 3:27 pm
    13 Feb 2007

    In touch with the electorateIn an ACNielsen Global Online Consumer Opinion Survey published last month, "Globally, Czechs are the most aware about global warming, with 99% saying they know about this issue, followed by 98% of Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Thai consumers."

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  2. randino Posted 4:04 am
    14 Feb 2007

    Is that President Klaus or President Borat?

    Randy Cunningham

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  3. tplante Posted 4:04 am
    14 Feb 2007

    You're kidding?Do we even care about what this Czech President thinks? Well, we shouldn't. Al Gore is sane.
    ....Kinda.

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