Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic and the European Union, speaks at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change. Klaus argues that global warming "alarmists" are short on data a...
Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic and the European Union, speaks at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change. Klaus argues that global warming "alarmists" are short on data and long on coercive measures that will reduce wealth and development in the Third World without having any impact on environmental concerns.
Reason's science correspondent Ronald Bailey will be filing dispatches from the conference. For more info, go to reason.com.
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Total skepticism towards global warming is bad for the libertarian movement, if you deny it completely you make a fool out of yourself and libertarianism. Obviously I believe in a free market approach to climate change solutions, but I don't deny scientific consensus.
Denying what a majority of scientists have agreed is caused by humanity isn't going to help our cause. There is an unnatural CO2 spike and CO2 has been tied with planetary warming in the past.
No rather the opposite, Its the warming in the past that drew the CO2 up, not the other way. Look at it closely. And I refuse to follow Gore, so he can proffit from his carbon credits, just for the sake of falling behind a party line, when this man made global warming has been proven false. I am against pollution ofcourse, but there re many and better alternatives in the free market, so no need for govt. to dictate my energy source.
Just a detail - Václav Klaus IS NOT a president of the European Union - there´s no such position. He´s the president of Czech republic and this country is currently holding the EU presidency. :-)
Yeah, nickd, because your individual liberty to drive your Hummer to your next-door-neighbors is sooooo much more important than the fact that we have to kiss ass politically (or start preemptive wars) to get the gas for your Hummer from countries that don't like us very much.
I taught my kids a stupid concept - one that individual libertarians don't like much - freedoms come with responsibilities.
Actually, I could just walk to my next doors neighbors house. And I drive a Honda. So please, stop with the dramatic generalizations.
So what if somebody has a hummer? If they can afford it whats the problem? We wouldn't have to kiss ass to get more oil if the Spendacrats and their environmentalist handlers would let America develop its own energy resources.
But no, we can't do that. We got to develop technology that doesn't exist yet to free us, as Obama said, from the "tyranny of oil"
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CO2 has been over 17X higher in the past.
There isn't even a petition with 500 signitures that states it is human caused
Thank you very much for posting.
I taught my kids a stupid concept - one that individual libertarians don't like much - freedoms come with responsibilities.
So what if somebody has a hummer? If they can afford it whats the problem? We wouldn't have to kiss ass to get more oil if the Spendacrats and their environmentalist handlers would let America develop its own energy resources.
But no, we can't do that. We got to develop technology that doesn't exist yet to free us, as Obama said, from the "tyranny of oil"