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Aznar questions global warming
Spain's former conservative prime minister José Maria Aznar stunned the audience at the launch of a book opposing the notion that human activity is causing climate change. He compared environmentalists to Communists.
Adeline Percept and Tree Elvent report from Madrid
It makes you wonder if José Maria Aznar is on the same planet as the rest of us. On Wednesday, Spain's former prime minister (1996-2004) declared in front of an audience of politicians and journalists that he opposed the “flag-bearers of the global warming Apocalypse (…) who seek to restrict individual liberties in the name of a noble cause… As the Communists did!”
From that, it is a short step to labelling ecologists as Stalinists or saying Greenpeace is the KGB of our day.
Aznar made his statements while presenting Czech President Vaclav Klaus's book For a blue planet – not green, published by the Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies, which he heads. The book is an open attack on the “theory” of climate change, which sweeps aside every scientific study on the urgency of the situation.
Vaclav Klaus will succeed Nicolas Sarkozy at the head of the European Union on January 1st 2009.
Several former high-ups in Spain's Popular Party who were sitting in the front row at the presentation clapped. One of them was Ana Botella, José Maria Aznar's wife, who currently works at Madrid City Hall as… the delegate for the Environment.
Several of those present were left open-mouthed. The El Pais journalist at the ceremony said Aznar “rejected all questions from the press”. Perhaps he was embarrassed: in 1998, it was Jose Maria Aznar himself who signed the Kyoto Protocol against global warming in Spain's name.
And it was in Valencia, Spain's third-largest city, that 3,000 scientists met last year at the invitation of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. There, they declared that climate change is an “undeniable” phenomenon, which is 90% due to Man's activities on Earth.
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Change?
Of course climate change doesn’t exist, that would mean that God is a particularly nasty vengeful deity, not allowing us to play with our toys as much as we please.
Thankfully such grounded individuals as Mr. Aznar are sounding the warning bell.
Later I’m going to invite him over to play with my imaginary friend before we burn a few witches and worship Thor.
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NATURE WILL DO WHAT NATURE HAVE TO DO NATURALLY
CLIMATE OF FEAR
Lowest recorded temperature levels of the century, way below – 20º C, in Spain was on 30 December, 1937
Warmest year -1934. The degree to which climate has varied in the past, and even in historical times, is hard for anyone to conceive and the greatest problem for all observers of the world is to determine whether their perceptions are genuine and verifiable, or whether their “findings” are merely the projections of inner feelings masquerading as “fact” and from a trifling investment of this “fact” comes a wholesale returns of conjecture and carefully orchestrated media campaigns, that newspaper and television are susceptible, to hold fund raising events. The fact is, nobody knows how much of the present warming trend might be human-made and nobody knows how much warming will occur in the next century. Computer models vary by 400 percent, de facto proof that nobody knows. One would guesstimate it to be, say 0.81 degree C, no better or worse than anyone else’s guess, because one simply can’t assess the future, nor can one predict it. Natural disaster inflicted upon us is a natural process of nature.
One has more respect for those who change their views after acquiring new information than for those who cling to views they held dear from day one. The world changes, ideologues and zealots, people who are stubborn, don’t. José Maria Aznar is firmly on terra firma, the rest of us are dismissive of reality. Adeline Percept and Tree Elvent are on cloud cuckoo-land.
CIVILIZATION EXISTS BY NATURE’S CONSENT, SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
Learn history my friend.
Stalinists and KGB was killing millions of people.
Climat alarmists dont do that.
They only want the political power and our money
IPCC - Aznar
Well, finally a politician who [apart from Klaus] has the guts to criticize the more than less like 'Scientology' of the IPCC theories, handlings & actings!
Very well done!