Money | 02/02/2009 11:30 am
Gore's Global Warming a Farce, Says Czech Prez Václav Klaus (Video)

Czech President Václav Klaus isn’t warming up to the science of rising climates.
"I don’t think that there is any global warming," said the 67-year-old liberal president, Associated Foreign Press reports. Tell that to the polar bears that are drowning … Poor things. Challenging the global warming activist Al Gore, Klaus added: "I’m very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them."
Klaus made the comments on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which Gore also attended. Klaus has taken aim at global warming for years and previously criticized the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a group of one-sided, politicized scientists. In 2007, Klaus concluded in his book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles, that global warming was a "valueless theory."
Should environmentalists be alarmed at Klaus’s remarks? Perhaps. Western European states want to do everything in their power to limit man-made global warming, but Eastern European states — especially the Czech Republic — consider man-made global warming to be a myth. And those views could hold sway in the European Union now that Klaus holds the group’s rotating presidency. The Czechs fear that the anti-global-warming attitude of France, Britain and Germany may hurt the European and thus the Czech Republic’s economy, which relied heavily on coal as an energy source and hence has vested interests.
He said Saturday that he had not been given any "statistical data" to prove Gore’s theories on global warming and questioned the former vice president’s intentions: "Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement."
Meanwhile, Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his climate change research, continues to urge congress to pass global warming reforms.
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Watch Klaus take aim at Al Gore and climate change:























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