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Czech President Says Global Warming a Politician's 'Myth'

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President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus slams Al Gore and defends his previous statement that "global warming is a myth."

As an "excellent political idea," Klaus believes global warming is a convenient way for politicians to seem compassionate.
Czech Leader Links Global Warming Alarmists to Communism

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President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus compares the ideologies of communism and global warming alarmism.

"They are structurally very similar," says Klaus. "They are against individual freedom. They are in favor of centralistic masterminding of our faiths. They are both very similar in telling us what to do, how to live, how to behave, what to eat..."
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sunoveristambul

Posted: 11.20.09, 12:27 AM

I love this guy. His speech at the EU last year was amazing. If you know anything about history, you will listen to this man. What he says is BOTH educated and informed. He goes beyond the popular assumptions and digs at the base of messages that the general public swallows whole. In the past, it was not monsters that accepted totalitarian leaders,,,, Tito, Hitler, Mussalini,,, It was the common man, accepting liars and cheats. Sheep have been led around time and time again. It will happen again. Chamberlain believed in, "Peace in our time." War makes more money than peace and true democracy.. Terminology is being used to define your mind. Question ALL. Ignore the terminology and go beyond the headlines. "The general public believes intellectuals." We all know statistics changed. If it is printed, it must be true...?? If you would like to comment,,,please add your explanation of the EU President. How was this a TRUE democratic selection? How was the vote taken?

Jake F

Posted: 11.19.09, 11:52 AM

Re: PrincessFaissl, cap and trade The problem with cap and trade is who decides who gets how much? the politically favored will pollute just as much, with the added bonus of being able to extort the unfavorable with the sale of the excess credits they have been allocated. its a lobbyists fantasy.

rgray222

Posted: 11.19.09, 09:42 AM

Yes we know this is not Vaclav Haval it is Vaclav Klaus, the second president of the Czech Republic. Should we be doing something to achieve a cleaner environment, absolutely. Should we be trying to get better cleaner energy, absolutely. Have politicians seized on global warming as an issue to tax people, absolutely. Cap and trade does absolutely nothing to provide a cleaner environment. Politicians have been looking for something to raise government revenues and can you only imagine to tax us on "the climate". At first it was "global warming" but now that we have entered into a world wide cooling cycle it is now "climate change". Talk about trying to have it both ways. At any given moment in history you could look to the climate in any part of the world and make a case for cooling or heating of the earths surface. Did you know that antiartica has generated more then a million cubic feet of new ice in the last three years. You won't read about in the media because it not what they want you to hear. Any time you hear a politician use the term "climate change" it should raise red flags. In reality "climate change" means "raise taxes".

doc humboldt

Posted: 11.19.09, 09:27 AM

What a jerk.

Michael Labeit

Posted: 11.18.09, 02:49 PM

It seems the Fora TV liberals are flipping out.

Soylent

Posted: 11.18.09, 08:29 AM

If you want to do something about carbon, just set a price on carbon and get the fuck out of the way. As I see it mainstream environmentalism is the last vestige of socialism. Socialism can't produce more goods, it can't produce better quality goods; whenever it's actually tried it ends in a massive statist meat grinder whose only reedeming feature is that it's so inefficient that the harm it is able to inflict is reduced. The same cretins who were telling me the Soviet Union is such a wonderful workers paradise and will rapidly overtake the west, and they were telling me this right up until the glorious year it imploded, are now telling me well at least socialism is necessary to save the environment. These are the same people who in the 80's wanted to phase out our nuclear plants(~50% of our grid) and import natural gas from the Soviet union to replace them; a ruionous policy both for the economy, for the environment and for energy security. Economic calculation is impossible under socialism, even weak socialism where you "play market" to try and emulate its function. Just look at Germany to see the effect of the government's micromanagement of the economy. Why are they building all these idiotic wind turbines that barely do anything to reduce CO2 emissions(spinning reserve + higher percentage single cycle turbines negate most of the benefit) and require all this gas from Russia? Why are they still thinking about trying to phase out their nuclear plants and build 26 new filthy, lignite coal plants? The only material reduction in CO2-emissions happened when the Berlin wall fell and the crummy Soviet coal plants were replaced with more efficient ones in the early 90's.

jeff1967

Posted: 11.18.09, 03:31 AM

I was born in Poland. There is a saying about people, who were on the top of big changes of eighties: "From zero to hero ... and back." I do not mean to offend Czech people, but this gentleman is fits it quite well. It is not limited to Eastern Europe, thou. Can someone tell me, why politics resembles so much a stirred night pot? Why our "leaders" remind so much of that "floating thing" in that long forgotten bedroom necessity?

Ryan Todd

Posted: 11.18.09, 12:30 AM

Setting a carbon cap, right now, would be devestating to the American economy. Right now we do not have the alternative forms of energy in place to compleatly move away from fossil fuels succesfully. The United States produces steel. Companies in other countries do not buy American Steel because of the cheep labor that produces it or because the quality of the steel is that much better from America. Our companies are very competative in the world market, because the Iron Ore and the Coal that is needed to fuel the fires, to produce the heat neccisary to refine the iron, are found close enough together that the Material cost is low enough to pay the American Workers wages and still keep the prices low. If there was a limit of Carbon use allowed by a steel mill, where they would be forced to buy carbon credits to run their plant, the Cost of manufacuring would sky rocket. Which would raise the price of the steel, forcing themselves out of the market, which would force the plant to close -or- they would be forced to cut the jobs of "non-essential" member of the work force. Either way a substantail blow to our allready weak economy. This will surley be the way for most other manufacturing industries STILL located inside of the United States... We do not have the Nuclear Power plants ready to make a smooth transistion, and as of right now it takes 11 years of Red Tape before a new plant will be APPROVED for construction. We dont have the wind or solar farms in place yet either, and there has been debate whether or not the wind turbines would produce enough energy in 10 years to pay for their production and maitenence. Why shouldn't the United States wait untill we have the Alternative Energies in place before we swear off of Carbon fuels. Imagine if we capped the carbon output in 1900.. we never would have been able to make the machines and plants that would allow for the new forms of energy we are creating, and the Nuclear power technology would never had been developed here.

heygbradio

Posted: 11.17.09, 10:29 PM

The Lisbon Treaty...is the worst thing that has ever happened in European politics. Goodbye sovereignty...goodbye democracy...It's time to wake up to the true nature of this treaty... Repeal now before it's too late.

Huca

Posted: 11.17.09, 02:37 PM

I am from the Czech Republic and I am embarrassed for him and ashamed of him like many people from my country. He is just the old man, who needs to be something interesting. Thanks for understanding.

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