Climate Change

I grow increasingly convinced that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is false.  The evidence mounts that the CO2 greenhouse effect has been overstated, and former believers have become skeptics, themselves.  But even if I'm wrong -- even if man has created the conditions that are changing our climate, I could never agree to the suggested fixes.

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.

Luckily, for us skeptics, the climate change hype has finally become un "sustainable."