Sunday, June 10, 2007
FACTS NEGLECTED, IGNORED
Czech President Vaclav Klaus on modern totalitarianism:
The environmentalist paradigm of thinking is absolutely static. They neglect the fact that both nature and human society are in a process of permanent change, that there is and has been no ideal state of the world as regards natural conditions, climate, distribution of species on earth, etc.
They neglect the fact that the climate has been changing fundamentally throughout the existence of our planet and that there are proofs of substantial climate fluctuations even in known and documented history.
Their reasoning is based on historically short and incomplete observations and data series which cannot justify the catastrophic conclusions they draw.
They neglect the complexity of factors that determine the evolution of the climate and blame contemporary mankind and the whole industrial civilization for being the decisive factors responsible for climate change and other environmental risks.
It’s unusual to read something so absolutely correct. Read on.
(Via Garth Godsman)
UPDATE. According to Kevin Rudd:
The science of this is pretty basic. All the scientists around the world agree that we have got to reach a point whereby we actually bring total emissions down.
So he’ll be embracing nuclear power for Australia any day now.
(Via Alan R.M. Jones)