President Klaus joins global warming sceptics’ conference in New York

The Czech President Václav Klaus has delivered a speech questioning the existence of man-made global warming at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York. Speaking at the event on Tuesday, which was attended by around 100 speakers and panellists, Mr Klaus told the assembled guests that "There is no reason to make orchestrated changes now - especially with arguments based on such an incomplete and faulty science as that demonstrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” Mr. Klaus is a well-known critic of global warming as well as the IPCC which he has previously described as a heavily politicised body. The Heartland institute is a free-market oriented think-tank based in Chicago with close ties to US corporations such as ExxonMobil, Phillip Morris and General Motors.

Author: Dominik Jůn