Klaus says freedom is under threat...not climate...

I love Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic...

The movement against global warming has turned into a new religion, an ideology that threatens to undermine freedom and the world's economic and social order, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Monday.

Klaus was speaking to reporters at the launch of the German translation of his new book, a sceptical look at the worldwide campaign to stop climate change entitled "Blue Planet in Green Chains: What Is Under Threat -- Climate or Freedom?".

"My answer to that question is unambiguous," said Klaus. "Freedom is under threat.

"Also (threatened) is the prevailing social and economic order, contemporary civilisation, the current prosperity of developed countries and the chances of developing countries to achieve a similar level of prosperity."

He said the climate change movement was not based on science and that theories about man-made global warming could not be proven.

"It has become a new religion or new ideology and in that sense I think it's justified to compare it with other ideologies," Klaus said.