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CZECH REPUBLIC/EUROPE-Czech President To Help Fight 'Indoctrination' of Children About Global Warming

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CZECH REPUBLIC/EUROPE-Czech President To Help Fight 'Indoctrination' of Children About Global Warming





Czech President To Help Fight 'Indoctrination' of Children About Global

Warming

Report by Brian Kenety: "Klaus To Pen Intro for Aussie Comrade in Arms'

Kids Book on Global Warming" - CZECHPOSITION.COM

Wednesday August 3, 2011 14:54:25 GMT

BOTh men argue that in place of a rational "debate" about the science and

rational behind combating climate change there has been a "propaganda"

campaign, and that the general public -- including schoolchildren -- have

been successfully indoctrinated by "global warming alarmists" to believe

that the Earth's temperature is steadily rising, human activity is to

blame, and the results will be catastrophic.



"What debate? We have only had mindless propaganda, cacophony and

vilification," Plimer, a professor of mining geology at the University of

Adelaide , said at the outset of his speech on the subject in Sydney last

week at the Institute of Public Affairs -- a free market think tank that

sponsored Klaus' much publicized Australian speaking tour.



Incoming university students, Pilmer argued, have little or no knowledge

of the basic science (climatology) necessary to understand the issue, a

fiercely contentious one in Australia -- the world's highest per capita

emitter of greenhouse gases, where coal is king and the economy weathered

the global fiscal crisis largely on the back of commodity exports.



"They believe what they're told, and 'belief' is a word of religion and

politics, not a word of science," Plimer said. "The very food we eat we

convert into carbon dioxide, and to call it a 'pollutant' is deceptive and

relies on the ignorance of those who have not had a rigorous education.

... The tragedy of this propaganda -- because it is not a debate -- is

that we have schoolchildren who have very, very strong environmental views

underpinned by absolutely no evidence whatsoever." The Carbon Tax



With the support of Green and independent MPs, Australian Prime Minister

Julia Gillard early last month introduced a tax on the country's top 500

carbon polluters, such as mining companies, steel and aluminum

manufacturers, and airlines, obliging them to pay a A$ 23 a metric ton tax

as of July 1, 2012. The Gillard plan aims to cut emissions by at least 5

percent of 2000 levels -- or 160 million tonnes -- within a decade.



"We know that that warming is changing our climate causing sea levels to

rise, meaning there will be more days of extreme heat, meaning that we are

at risk of more bushfires and droughts, meaning that great icons like the

Great Barrier Reef are at risk," Gillard warned.



Utter nonsense, says Plimer, twice winner of Australia's highest

scientific honor, the Eureka Prize, a professor in the School of Earth and

Environmental Scien ces at the University of Adelaide -- and the director

of a several mining companies -- who has written numerous scientific

papers opposing the scientific consensus (another word he is opposed to,

as "consensus is a matter of politics, not of science") that human

activities have a significant influence on climate change.



Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes

observed today are less than those of the past, he argues. In previous

times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present but did

not drive climate change, and no runaway greenhouse effect occurred during

times of excessively high carbon dioxide, he argues, and during past

glaciations, carbon dioxide was higher than it is today.



The Czech president, an economist whose own book on the subject, "Blue

Planet in Green Shackles" focuses on the cost/benefit analysis of the

effort to drop the Earth's temperature, couldn't agree more. "This boo k

of mine is not a study in climatology -- I don't compete with Prof. Plimer

and others -- my book would better be described as an essay in political

philosophy and the economics of global warming. The subtitle of the book,

which asks, 'What is endangered? Climate or freedom?,' suggests what my

topic is," said Klaus, who spoke after the geologist at the same Institute

of Public Affairs event in Sydney.



"I consider Ian Plimer one of the crucial scientists engaged in the debate

about climate change and global warming. I also quote Bob Carter quite

often, who keeps repeating -- and I like the phrase -- 'There is no

climate emergency,'" he said. Klaus, who calls global warming a "doctrine,

not a science" and a "threat to human freedom" also wrote the cover note

to Plimer's 2009 book titled, "Heavan and Earth - Global Warming: The

Missing Science.": "This is a very powerful, clear, understandable and

extremely useful book. Ian Plimer fully exploits his unique scientific

background in geology, his life-long academic experience, and his broad,

truly interdisciplinary knowledge to dismantle the currently popular,

politically correct but rationally untenable and indefensible position

that the Earth is approaching catastrophic climate change and that we have

to react -- at all costs -- to prevent it. ..." "He also convincingly

criticizes the UN, the IPCC, UK and US politicians as well as 'Hollywood

show business celebrities.' He strictly distinguishes science and

environmental activism, politics and opportunism. The book I wrote two

years ago, 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles,'comes to very similar

conclusions, but I have to say that if I'd had a chance to read Professor

Plimer's book, my book would have been better." -- Dr Vaclav Klaus,

President, The European Union, 2009.*



(*Editor's Note: When the blurb was written, the Czech Republic held the

rotating EU Presidency, and as h is country's head of state, Klaus -- a

well-known Euroskeptic -- was the union's figurehead, though largely

sidelined in the role by the Czech government. There is no 'President of

the European Union' as such.) 'How To Get Expelled from School'



Plimer told Czech Position in an email that his upcoming book -- "written

for 15-year-old children, parents and the general reader" -- will be

submitted to the publisher Connor Court next week and should be released

in late September 2011.



"There is considerable concern in many countries that school children are

not being taught the basics of science but are taught environmental

activism. I am told that they are being taught information about

human-induced global warming yet are not taught about the history of

climate change in planet Earth (which gives a very different

perspective)," he said.



"(Despite) having very firm views about the environment, they (incoming

university students) do n ot have the basic science and the use of the

language, have no clarity of thought and are unable to think critically.

One simple question to them shows that they have an ideology that is not

underpinned by science. This derives from what they have been taught at

school. This I continually hear from parents, and I again heard it from a

parent (and her 17-year-old son) at President Klaus' Brisbane lecture."



"How to Get Expelled from School" presents the science of climate change,

looks at climate change over the last 4500 million years and looks at

modern changes to show that anything measured today is within the past

variability and rates of changes, he told Czech Position.



"The book has background and then a series of simple questions that

students can ask teachers to ascertain whether they are being taught

environmental activism, whether the teacher knows the subject or whether

the teacher is just following the syllabus," Plimer said.< br>

"In my last book, 'Heaven and Earth,' President Klaus wrote the cover note

and I asked him to write the foreword to this new book, which I will send

to him next week. Presumably he accepted because he is interested in the

education and long-term future of young people."



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version of Czech news site established and owned by Istvan Leko, former

editor in chief of business weekly Euro, that aims to serve as "an elite

information website for discerning readers"; URL:

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