--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Czech president calls for rational debate on global warming, > rejects "current hysteria" > > The Associated Press > Wednesday, May 16, 2007 > PRAGUE, Czech Republic: Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Wednesday > called for a rational debate on global warming, rejecting what he > called "hysteria" driven by enviromentalists. > > "Let's bring the debate to whether the 0.6 (degree Celsius warming > over the last century) is much or little, how much Man has > contributed to the warming and ... if there is anything at all Man > can do about it," Klaus said when presenting his book "Blue, Not a > Green Planet." > > He charged that groups other than scientists have now seized on the > topic and ambitious environmentalists are fueling a global warming > hysteria that has no solid ground in fact and allows manipulation of > people. > > "It is about a key topic of our time, and that is the topic of human > freedom and its curtailment," Klaus said. > > "The approach of environmentalists toward nature is similar to the > Marxist approach to economic rules, because they also try to replace > free spontaneity of the evolution of the world (and of mankind) > with ... global planning of the world's development," Klaus writes in > his book. > > "That approach ... is a utopia leading to completely other than > wanted results," he says. > > Klaus, an economist by profession, has repeatedly warned that policy > makers are pushed by the widespread fear of global warming to adopt > enormously costly programs that eventually may have no positive > effect. > > Klaus served as Czechoslovak finance minister after the 1989 fall of > communism and as Czech prime minister after Czechoslovakia split into > the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. As president, he now has > mainly ceremonial powers.
Q. On a recent British television programme it was claimed that a large part of global warming is caused by the oceans, and is entirely natural. Would you please comment? A. This is a very dangerous idea and widely believed by those who would gladly accept that we need do nothing to prevent or reduce our emissions of carbon gases which cause global warming. It is very important that we learn to cope not only with global warming but also with the complete changes that are taking place in the fabric of our planet. There are many scientists on both sides of this question, and the purveyors of oil are not slow to employ those who say there is nothing to worry about. According to the Masters, Who are the only people Who can know with certainty, 80 per cent of the rise in temperature in the world is due to global warming caused by man. Twenty per cent is due to certain changes in the relation between the sun and the Earth which Maitreya Himself has brought about, in part to draw our attention to the urgency of dealing with this danger to our planetary life. http://www.shareintl.org
