FT.com | Brussels Blog | All eyes on Prague as Czech senators vote on Lisbon treaty

After all, this is the man who on Monday chaired an EU-Japan summit in Prague at which the main theme was European and Japanese efforts to reach a world agreement on fighting climate change at a December conference in Copenhagen. After the summit, Klaus, who loves to ridicule the international scientific consensus on global warming, said of the EU-Japanese talks: “The discussion was at a level that I had no motivation to enter… The general level of the debate was quite acceptable for me, even if I’m convinced there’s no global warming and there’s almost no man-made global warming.”

You could almost feel the pain of José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, as he stood in stoical silence next to Klaus. As for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, he could have been forgiven for wondering: What was the point of my trip from Tokyo, if the guy chairing this summit disagrees with everything we’ve been talking about?

The American Spectator : Award-Winning Boat Anchors

As you can see, Al Gore, his sycophants, and his multi-million-dollar nonprofit mafia are tethered to the phrase that started it all – "global warming" – which they no longer warm to.

It worked so well for them in their heyday. They received media love every time NASA's James Hansen exposed his rump for their smoochin'. And proponents can credit a million megatons of award hardware thanks to "global warming," including Oscars, a Grammy, and the Nobel Peace Prize.

Now it's a boat anchor. According to ecoAmerica, instead of messaging with "global warming," alarmists would be better off using terms like "our deteriorating atmosphere" and "climate change." The latter phrase has been utilized almost exclusively by the environoiacs and their journalist template-followers the last couple of years, since global warming isn't.

But it's hard to break from their roots. The crisis-promoters so effectively rat-a-tatted the panic of melting icebergs, homeless polar bears, and a million more Katrinas that "global warming" dangers – now understood to be a lie – is embedded in the perceptions of middle Americans. Gore, Hansen and company own it. They loved it when the ship set sail, but scurry like the proverbial rats now that the truth (that is, no warming in a dozen years) has run their cause aground.

Hot-air doomsayers | The Australian

To argue that human additions to atmospheric CO2, a trace gas in the atmosphere, changes climate requires an abandonment of all we know about history, archaeology, geology, solar physics, chemistry and astronomy. We ignore history at our peril.

I await the establishment of a Stalinist-type Truth and Retribution Commission to try me for my crimes against the established order and politicised science.

Ian Plimer, a professor at the University of Adelaide, is author of Heaven and Earth - Global Warming: The Missing Science (Connor Court).