Czech President Vaclav Klaus
is any global warming,”
said the 67-year-old liberal,
whose country holds the
rotating presidency of the
European Union.
“I don’t see the
statistical data for that.”
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Referring to the former
US vice president,
who attended Davos this year,
he 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.
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“Environmentalism and the global
warming alarmism is challenging
our freedom.
Al Gore is an important person
in this movement.”
Speaking on the sidelines of the
he said that he was more worried
about the reaction to the perceived
dangers than the consequences.
“I’m afraid that the current crisis will
be misused for radically constraining
the functioning of the markets and
market economy all around the world,”
he said.
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“I’m more afraid of the
consequences of the crisis
than the crisis itself.”
Klaus makes no secret of
his climate change scepticism —
he is also a fierce critic of the
European Union —
and has branded the world’s
top panel of climate experts,
the UN’s IPCC,
a smug monopoly.
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