(A), via IHT:

Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Wednesday called for a rational debate on global warming, rejecting what he called “hysteria” driven by environmentalists. “Let’s bring the debate to whether the 0.6 (degree Celsius warming over the last century) is much or little, how much Man has contributed to the warming and … if there is anything at all Man can do about it,” Klaus said when presenting his book “Blue, Not a Green Planet.”

He charged that groups other than scientists have now seized on the topic and ambitious environmentalists are fueling a global warming hysteria that has no solid ground in fact and allows manipulation of people.

“It is about a key topic of our time, and that is the topic of human freedom and its curtailment,” Klaus said. “The approach of environmentalists toward nature is similar to the Marxist approach to economic rules, because they also try to replace free spontaneity of the evolution of the world (and of mankind) with … global planning of the world’s development”…

Or (B), via Sky News and AP:

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warns governments have until 2012 to “plant the seeds of change” and make positive moves to limit carbon emissions. If they fail to do so, the WWF’s Vision For 2050 warns “generations to come will have to live with the compromises and hardships caused by their inability to act”. “We have a small window of time in which we can plant the seeds of change, and that is the next five years,” James Leape, from the WWF, said…

“Climate change is real, it’s happening now and unless world leaders take urgent, decisive and far-reaching action, the next decades will see human misery on a scale not experienced in modern times,” said Greenpeace activist Hilal Atici. “Those leaders have a mandate from the people … to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions and to do it now.”

It’s interesting that the choice seems so clear — to each side. Hmmm. Reminds us of something. Maybe something else too.

UPDATE

Special Bonus: a list of scientists, once apparently believers, who now call Global Warming hysteria “poppycock” and worse.

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