G-8 Decision On Emissions Is Appealing

At the G-8 summit in Germany, a decision was made to put forth an effort to reduce 'greenhouse gases' to combat 'global warming'.

The G8 group's decision to considerably decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is "seemingly courageous and in any case very appealing for those who cannot imagine its consequences," Czech President Vaclav Klaus said in an article published in the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) today.

Klaus, in his article, asks the leaders of the seven most advanced countries and Russia, why they made the decision, whether they know the method to secure the goal and whether they have the right to interfere in billions of people's lives half a century after their mandate expires.

Klaus writes that there are no convincing scientific pieces of evidence proving that the earth faces a massive global warming and that human activities, mainly greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of the "slight warming".

It is mainly said in the "commitment" of the world leading politicians that they express "immense historical pessimism", Klaus says.

"They have demonstrated that they do not believe in positive results of unregulated creative spontaneity of human society and that they primarily believe in the duty to plan and organise it from the above," Klaus writes.

He added that the "green" movement, "which - unlike the climate - has become the real global danger of the present," is pushing politicians into this position.

Neither the Goracle nor newly-minted environmental expert Jean-Pierre Kerry were available for pontificating comment.