Global Warming Is A Myth, According To Scientific Genius: President of Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus

The below linked and excerpted article from the Drudge Report is by far the most passionate and devoid of scientific evidence argument I have yet seen against Global Warming. Apparently, the President of the Czech Republic is THE authority on how man ISN'T damaging mother earth:

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

*I'm excerpting almost the whole interview, and will add my comments in bold:

President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a 'Myth' - Questions Gore's Sanity

Mon Feb 12 2007 09:10:09 ET

Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis.

In an interview with "Hospodárské noviny", a Czech economics daily, Klaus answered a few questions:

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.•

(It'd be nice to cite who these 'every serious person and scientist(s)' are, and exactly what they are saying. That's like, one of the first rules of the scientific method, Mr. President. Or, I'm sorry, didn't you learn about that at age 10?)

Q: How do you explain that there is no other comparably senior statesman in Europe who would advocate this viewpoint? No one else has such strong opinions...•

A: My opinions about this issue simply are strong. Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.•

(Yuh-huh...political correctness is the evil that is keeping your worldwide henchmen from blowing the cover off this Global Warming fallacy)

Q: But you're not a climate scientist. Do you have a sufficient knowledge and enough information?•

A: Environmentalism as a metaphysical ideology and as a worldview has absolutely nothing to do with natural sciences or with the climate. Sadly, it has nothing to do with social sciences either. Still, it is becoming fashionable and this fact scares me. The second part of the sentence should be: we also have lots of reports, studies, and books of climatologists whose conclusions are diametrally opposite.• Indeed, I never measure the thickness of ice in Antarctica. I really don't know how to do it and don't plan to learn it. However, as a scientifically oriented person, I know how to read science reports about these questions, for example about ice in Antarctica. I don't have to be a climate scientist myself to read them. And inside the papers I have read, the conclusions we may see in the media simply don't appear. But let me promise you something: this topic troubles me which is why I started to write an article about it last Christmas. The article expanded and became a book. In a couple of months, it will be published. One chapter out of seven will organize my opinions about the climate change.• Environmentalism and green ideology is something very different from climate science. Various findings and screams of scientists are abused by this ideology.•

(Ohhhkaaay. So, first you call environmentalism, or thinking about the effects of men on the planet, mere philosophy. 2nd of all, you completely marginalize and disregard the undeniably SCIENTIFIC measuring of the thickness of arctic ice, one of the only true ways to measure our global climate. With NO scientific theory/evidence/thinking to back that up. Right.

You say, "Environmentalism and green ideology is something very different from climate science." In other words, it's green ideology when someone points to Global Warming, but it's hard climate science when you KNOW Al Gore is simply a madman and doesn't know what he's talking about. I like to call that sophmoric logic, personally.)

The interview goes on and then we get to the good part:

Q: Isn't there enough empirical evidence and facts we can see with our eyes that imply that Man is demolishing the planet and himself?•

A: It's such a nonsense that I have probably not heard a bigger nonsense yet.•

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.• It's also true that there exist social systems that are damaging Nature - by eliminating private ownership and similar things - much more than the freer societies. These tendencies become important in the long run. They unambiguously imply that today, on February 8th, 2007, Nature is protected uncomparably more than on February 8th ten years ago or fifty years ago or one hundred years ago.• That's why I ask: how can you pronounce the sentence you said? Perhaps if you're unconscious? Or did you mean it as a provocation only? And maybe I am just too naive and I allowed you to provoke me to give you all these answers, am I not? It is more likely that you actually believe what you say.

(Ha! This guy is going on and on and on about how Global Warming is a myth...and then, when asked a direct question about it, which is his chance to really make a stand...he dodges it!! How can you take someone like this seriously?

Then, he says, "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."

Okay. So, forget about the number of animal/plant/insect/ species going extinct. Forget about the arctic caps melting. Forget about smog, the rising number of asthma/cancer diagnoses, and rising sea waters. Forget about cause-effect. Forget about the growing garbage piles. Forget about nuclear power and radioactivity. Forget about acid rain. And then maybe, just maybe, you'll be as ignorant as the Czech President. But you might also need to eat glue first.