Seattle Politics Examiner: During Seattle Visit, Czech Republic President Cites EU's Crippling Effect on Democracy

President Klaus pointed out several factors in global warming alarmism that pose a threat to democracy:

1. The discussion of global warming and the process of dealing with it "is in the hands of a group of climatologists (and other related scientists) who are highly motivated to look in one direction only because a large number of academic careers has in the last couple of years evolved around the idea of man-made global warming."

2. It is "also in the hands of politicians who maximize the number of votes they seek to get from the electorate on the basis of whatever idea they could profit from. And the idea of man-made global warming is very seductive, politically promising and expedient."

3. As a consequence of political decisions, the process is controlled by "bureaucrats of national and more often of international institutions who try to maximize their budgets and years of careers regardless the costs, truth and rationality."

4. It is also greatly influenced by an industry spawned by global warming alarmism. This industry manipulates the policymaking process to obtain vast government subsidies and bolster its own interests.