Czech Prez want debate with Gore over climate change

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CZ's, they dont just make great guns !!!

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitt.../s_569644.html

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WASHINGTON -- Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms.
"I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he's not too much willing to make such a conversation," Klaus said. "So I'm ready to do it."

Klaus was speaking a the National Press Building in Washington to present his book, "Blue Planet in Green Shackles -- What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?"

The Czech president, elected to a second five-year term in February, met yesterday with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and will see Vice President Dick Cheney today, where among other issues, he will discuss a U.S. plan to stage a radar in the Czech Republic.

Former Vice President Gore, who has become a leading international voice in the cause against global warming, was co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Gore's effort was highlighted by his Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvienent Truth."
Klaus, an economist, said he opposed the "climate alarmism" perpetuated by environmentalism trying to impose their ideals, comparing it to the decades of communist rule he experienced growing up in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.

"Like their (communist) predecessors, they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality," he said. "In the past, it was in the name of the Marxists or of the proletariat -- this time, in the name of the planet," he said.

Klaus said a free market should be used to address environmental concerns and said he oppposed as unrealistic regulations or greenhouse gas capping systems designed to reduce the impact of climate change.

"It could be even true that we are now at a stage where mere facts, reason and truths are powerless in the face of the global warming propaganda," he said.