Prague - Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN
panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority
without any scientific basis, Czech media reported Friday.
Klaus told the Hospodarske noviny daily that the panel did not
include 'neutral scientists, a balanced group of scientists.'
'These are politicized scientists who arrive there with one-sided
opinion and assignment,' he told interviewers.
According to the Czech president, 'each serious person and
scientist' says that global warming is a myth.
His comments came a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) presented its much-anticipated report which
contained a stark warning about global warming and blamed man-made
emissions for the problem.
The IPCC report, compiled by some 600 scientists from 40
countries, said it is 'very likely' that man-made greenhouse gases
have caused the rise in temperatures, reflecting a 90-per-cent
certainty in the scientific community and an upgrade from a 'likely,'
or two-thirds certainty given in the last IPCC report six years ago.
The British government described the UN panel report, presented in
Paris on February 2, a blow to the 'climate change deniers.'
US President George W Bush turned away from climate change
scepticism in this year's State of the Union speech proposing that
the US cut petrol use to fight both global warming and foreign oil
dependency, and his administration endorsed the UN panel report.
According to Klaus, 'other top-level politicians' do not express
their global warming doubts because 'a whip of political correctness
strangles [their] voice'.
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