Klaus denounces "global warming dogma"

London, Oct 19 (CTK) - The general acceptation of the "global warming dogma" is one of the costliest and least democratic mistakes of recent time, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said in a lecture at The Global Warming Policy Foundation in London yesterday.

Klaus went on to criticise "powerful special interests" that advocated the "global warming doctrine."

Not climate, but governments, politics and lobbyists are the core of the problem as the latter want to gain more power and more opportunities to decide, Klaus said.

Scientists should help "politicians and public to separate environmentalists' myths from reality," he added.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation was established by former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson. Klaus wrote the preface for his book An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming from 2008.

All mainstream British parties, including Conservatives, consider fight against global warming their key priority.

Klaus said yesterday he had been watching the published theories for years and he sided with those claiming that carbon dioxide was not a vital factor, not a primary cause of global warming and the mankind was not to blame.

Klaus said with some lulls, certain warming had been underway for the past 150 years and "everything shows that future warming will have neither dramatic nor disastrous consequences."

"It does not look like a threat to which we have to react," Klaus said.

Klaus said the "massive propaganda on global warming" had been launched by the U.N. summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Klaus said environmentalists had managed to discover a new "brave cause," but they were trying to limit human freedom on behalf of "something" that was more important and more brave than very earthly lives.

"For someone who spent most of his life in the 'brave' era of the Communist regime, this is impossible to accept," Klaus said.

"The general acceptation of global warming dogma is one of the costliest and least democratic mistakes of recent time. Communism was the previous mistake of this kind," he added.

"So many politicians, important groups of academic establishment, important groups of businesspeople and almost all journalists see it different," Klaus said, adding that they "do not pay sufficient attention to arguments, while they have invested too much in the panicking around the global warming."

"This coalition of powerful special interests is threatening all of us," Klaus said.