from Soviet to scientific "tyranny"

Excerpts from an article in World by Mark Bergin on Vaclav Havel...

Climate-change alarmism has its Al Gore and Hollywood activists, characters whose appeal and personas transcend the issue to popularize green behavior. But where are the personalities of global warming skepticism? Outside the voices of conservative talk radio, whose scope of influence rarely extends beyond a static niche, the call for cool-headed environmental policy lacks star power.

An unlikely source is out to change that. Czech president Václav Klaus will release this month the English translation of his book Blue Planet in Green Shackles (Dokoran, 2008), which connects the devices of modern climate hysteria to past tactics of totalitarian regimes.

...prompts Klaus to wonder at the stated aims of European politicians to reduce emissions by 20 percent from 1990 levels over the next dozen years: "...do they expect a miracle in the development of the emissions/GDP ratio, which would require a technological revolution of unheard-of proportions?...we have to restart the discussion about the very nature of our society and about the relationship between the individual and the state, because the issue is not climatology. It is freedom."