Czech President Vaclav Klaus took aim at climate change campaigner Al Gore on Saturday in Davos in a frontal attack on the science of global warming.
"I don't think that there is any global warming," said the 67-year-old liberal, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. "I don't see the statistical data for that."
Referring to the former US vice president, who attended Davos this year, he added: "I'm very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them.
"Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement."
Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, he said that he was more worried about the reaction to the perceived dangers than the consequences.
"I'm afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world," he said.
"I'm more afraid of the consequences of the crisis than the crisis itself."
Klaus makes no secret of his climate change scepticism -- he is also a fierce critic of the European Union -- and has branded the world's top panel of climate experts, the UN's IPCC, a smug monopoly.
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Draw from your past....... but don't let your past draw from you
Yama, The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was..... is lost. For none now live who remember it.
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Indeed, seems a lot of people are starting to question the whole global warming thing and about time. Always thought/said it was nonsense. Like when I was a wee man and heard people say 'They'll tax us for fresh air soon' Always thought well now they have found a way with the whole green agenda that has risen to a huge campaign in the last few years. Before it was like the auld ad for milk (remember the two scouse kids...Accrington Stanley? Who are they?) change the Stanley for Green Party and you get the idea...who indeed where the Green Party few years back but now have every bodies ear! Well Governments love taxes so maybe you can see why the Green Party have risen in power. Well that's my two cents on it anyhow!
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Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What's down in the dark will be brought to the light