Vaclav Klaus: Global Warming a Politician's 'Myth'

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/06/Uncommon_Knowledge_Vaclav_Klaus

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, slams Al Gore and defends his previous statement that "global warming is a myth." As an "excellent political idea," Klaus believes global warming is a convenient way for politicians to appear compassionate.

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Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1941 during WW II, Vaclav Klaus grew up during the Cold War. After earning a doctorate in economics, he pursued a career in academia and at the Czechoslovak State Bank. Immediately after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, Klaus entered politics. A founder of the Civic Democratic Party, he served from 1992 to 1997 as prime minister of the Czech Republic. In 2003 he was elected president, a position to which he was reelected in 2008.

In retelling his experience of living through the Velvet Revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the lifting of the Iron Curtain, Vaclav Klaus offers his views on what students today need to understand about life under communism. He also defends his opposition to the idea of a European superstate -- "I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic" -- and compares the ideology of environmentalism and global warming alarmism with the ideology of communism.

Finally, he ponders the question of what lessons from history his grandchildren are learning. - Hoover Institution

Vaclav Klaus is the second President of the Czech Republic (since 2003, reelected 2008) and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (19921997).

He studied at the Prague School of Economics (majoring in the Economics of Foreign Trade and graduating in 1963), and economics became his lifelong specialist field.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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[jachim718]

Global Warming is the new religion!

[Pfsif]

Didn't big Al also say he invented the Internet? We use to lock up people like Al and give him a lobotomy. It's called delusion of grander, Al has the Messiah complex!

[imbabazane]

....Hehehe, I Once stood in a Uranal next to him ....

[Torgo1969]

Al Gore enjoys "the thrill of being forced", as he says in An Inconvenient Truth. What self-respecting man is that submissive?

[Sarando1]

Al G knows the economics of global warming fills is bank accounts.

[bastardchildofmary]

@Hobby331 I don't know if it was a czech movie, but I think that was a commodity in the movie ''circuitry man''

[Hobby331]

In 70's I've seen a Czech scifi movie about someone making and selling air which was high price commodity. Anyone knows the name of this movie?

[kraexaie]

Anyone studying crisis or disaster capitalism knows that it doesn't matter whether the crisis is real, imagined are constructed, the outcome ends up the same because you can capitalize and fear monger either way.

[kraexaie]

This is paring a fact with an idea: "People get colds more often in the winter because they need to bundle close together for warmth". It is a fact yes that people get colds more often in the winter but the cause that is attached to it is an idea. "Green washing is a form of commodification", yes I agree but this doesn't lead to "Therefore humans are not contributing to climate change".

[ALBIONTYKE]

@MlTher You have no idea what I am watching or reading. One thing I have done amongst many others is print off the 53 pages of emails from the University of East Anglia & read the whole lot. Any idiot who believes the crap the British Government made to "prove" that the scientists were naive but essentially correct is lacking in brain cells. If there is a man made threat to our climate, study the Russian PEER reviewed papers on HAARP. Contact the University of Moscow for the English papers,

[MlTher]

@ALBIONTYKE Just wait. You're rushing to conclusions without knowing anything. You're watching too much crap. You should try to find out from the scientists, not from the self-elected "experts" on youtube who smell a scam wherever they go - just to earn clicks. Anyway, the laughter will be on my side. Your wishful thinking won't help you out.