Czech President May Be the Only National Leader Who Really Understands the Objectives of the Climate Change Movement

Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who has written a book about the weaknesses in the theories regarding man-made causes for climate change and is thus regarded as a "skeptic", is concerned that the objective of the climate change movement is to tell people how to live their lives based on an "irrational ideology". He knows better than most world leaders of which he speaks. "I lived in a communist world where politicians told us what to do," he has said.

He is afraid that the goal of the current move to cap greenhouse gases and adopt mandates to accomplish any imposed limits on the emissions of such gases will result in dictating to the world "how to live, what to do, how to behave... What to eat, [where to] travel, and what my children should have. This is something that we who lived in the communist era for most of our lives — we still feel very strongly about. We are very sensitive in this respect. And we feel various similarities in their way of arguing or not arguing. In the way of pushing ahead ideas regardless of rational counter-arguments."

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Klaus is not against the development of green technology, however. It is for that reason that I have suggested the need for a New Paradigm for Climate Change. If the purpose of the UN Climate Change conferences is to really solve environmental problems, there needs to be open dialogue and serious consideration of positive approaches to solving those problems, rather than pitting rich and poor nations against each and talking about controlling people's freedom of action.

The good of humanity and the Earth would be better served by releasing human ingenuity and problem-solving creativity that can be widely supported throughout the world and has the potential to actually produce results, rather than a politically correct movement driven by scientists who want continued access to grant money just to further conduct research that supports seemingly predetermined conclusions, as the e-mail ClimateGate scandal appears to suggest. Sphere: Related Content