Czech President - Global Warming "A Senseless Fiction" - AFP

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Czech President Vaclav Klaus has attacked the widely held belief that human activities contribute to global warming as "a senseless fiction," the Czech left-leaning daily, Pravo, reported on Tuesday.

But Klaus' spokesman Petr Hajek told AFP later on Tuesday the president's comments on global warming had been taken out of context and referred to soemthing else entirely.

Global warming caused by people is a senseless fiction," the paper quoted Klaus as saying during a seminar on ecological myths and truths in the Czech Republic's second city, Brno. He also attacked the suggestion made at the conference by Czech Green Party leader Martin Bursik, that ice on the Alps and Himalayas was retreating.

"We could expect it to be the other way around and that if the ocean becomes warmer then it would snow more on the Antarctic and the ice mass would grow," Klaus retorted, according to the paper.

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http://www.terradaily.com/2006/060919150122.6qhk0j50.html

Good to know not ALL the dumbass heads of state are here in the US . .

[patricia92243]

1. A Senseless Fiction or An Inconvenient Truth - one or the other. It can'

can't be both t the same time. It sounds like he is either uninformed, stupid, or using this position as a political tool again his opponent.

My guess would be the political. These guys would sell their souls to stay in power.

[orwell]

2. Other senseless fictions:

Rain is wet.

The sky is blue.

Snow is cold.

Thanks for clearing that up...now, back to your rabid petrochemical consumption, already in progress...