Czech President Vaclav Klaus ---- Photo: CTK/Czech News Agency
U.N. invites Czech president to global warming conference
Czech President Vaclav Klaus will address a conference on global warming in late September in New York as he has been invited by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the event, Klaus's spokesman Petr Hajek told CTK Tuesday.
Klaus is known as a fierce challenger of both the human factor in and the widely forecast effects of global warming. He opposes the views advocated by people like Al Gore, arguing that the "hysteria" surrounding the warming issue threatens freedom and democracy.
One of his slogans is that freedom, not climate is endangered. He regularly lashes out against "ambitious environmentalism."
Earlier this year, he published "Blue, Not Green Planet", a book summarizing his opinions challenging some scenarios of the planet's further development with regard to global warming.
Klaus told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) last week that he plans to deliver a very radical speech in New York.
"It will be a gathering of 'Gore-ites,' so they're going to be shocked that they invited me 'by mistake,' too. And I'm going to give a very tough speech," he told the radio.
Fat al-Goracle, dreaming of triple-scoop ice cream cones, was busy screeching about how when ice melts, it leaves behind . . . water.
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