Willamette Week | Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Klaus was here to argue that global warming, human-caused or otherwise, is a myth promulgated by group-thinking climatologists and propagated through manufactured hysteria. And it's a dangerous myth, Klaus believes, because it's being seized upon by forces bent on undermining our liberty by subverting the free market.“Ten Years After” BILL MCKIBBEN & JAMES PITKIN| December 5th, 2007
That's not a popular message, and it may not be one the media wishes to hear or report on, said Steve Buckstein, a senior policy analyst at the Portland-based Cascade Policy Institute. That libertarian-leaning group was one of three such organizations which hosted Klaus' visit. The others were the Washington-based groups Competitive Enterprise Institute and Americans for Prosperity.
A former Czech finance minister and prime minister, Klaus is an economist in the Milton Friedman mold who has been arguing this line for years — the only head of state to question climate change repeatedly and publicly. Considered something of an embarrassment at home, he's been received warmly by conservatives abroad and spends a good deal of time on the international lecture circuit, where he's currently plugging his new book on global warming.
Why? Because the protocol that emerged from the Kyoto conference in 1997 hasn’t come close to turning off the carbon emissions heating our planet. It’s so bad, we’re having post-apocalyptic visions of our great-grandchildren someday splashing about in oceanfront property on Burnside.
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