Skeptics From Around the Globe

Czech Republic

Miroslav Kutilek, Emeritus Professor of Soil Science and Soil Physics at Czech Technical University in Prague who specialized in paleoclimatology of soil, received the “Mendel's award in Biological Sciences” from the Academy of Sciences in Prague and is an Honorary Member International Union of Soil Science.


"The climate oscillations in Holocene were not caused by the change of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and the warm periods were typical by higher temperature than the recent average. The rate of temperature rise was in several well documented instances higher than in the last two decades. Assumption on dominant role of greenhouse gases in recent global warming is therefore false. Catastrophic scenarios on the influence of global warming upon the further existence of homo sapiens are not scientifically based since the climate change contributed first to the hominization of ape and later on to the development of historical civilizations,”


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Skeptics From Around the Globe -Czech Republic

Note:
I was not going to use non-scientist in my "Around The Globe" profiles, certainly not politicians, even if he is the Czech President and former Prime Minister. He is also an economist which technically qualifies him as a scientist. Many of the members of the IPCC are economist including Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the scientific organization, who along with ALGORE (a politician) accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on global warming. So I guess Mr. Klaus is twice as qualified , since he is both an economist and a politician and unlike ALGORE an actual President no less :)

CZECH REPUBLIC

Vaclav Klaus, Czech Republic President

"Global warming is a myth and I think that every serious person and scientist says so. It is unfair to refer to the United Nations panel. IPCC is not a scientific body: it's a political institution, a kind of non-government organization with green flavor. It's not a forum of neutral scientists or a balanced group of scientists. Its members are politicized scientists who arrive there with one-sided sentiments and one-sided tasks. Also, it's an undignified practical joke that people don't wait for the complete report that will appear in May 2007 but instead react, in such a serious manner, to the summary for policy makers where all the "ifs" and "whens" and "buts" are scratched, erased, and replaced by oversimplified theses."


"I see another big problem in environmentalism and in its currently most aggressive form – global warming alarmism. This ideology has gradually turned into the most efficient vehicle for advocating extensive government intervention into all fields of life and for suppressing human freedom and economic prosperity."