Klaus pens foreword to Australian climate change denier’s book for highschoolers

President Václav Klaus and prominent geologist Ian Plimer say youngsters are ‘indoctrinated’ to believe in global warming

Politics & Policy|Energy & Green Biz

Brian Kenety | 08.12.2011

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A sunburned Václav Klaus on a Sydney beach — presumably unconcerned about talk of rising sea levels — during his summer speaking tour of Australia, the world’s highest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases, where coal is king and the economy weathered the global fiscal crisis largely on the back of commodity exports

Czech president Václav Klaus has written the foreword to a new book for high school students by fellow global warming skeptic Ian Plimer, a prominent and controversial Australian geologist and university professor who argues that incoming university students have “little or no knowledge” of the basic science behind the climate change debate and thus fall easy prey to “mindless propaganda.”

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