Vaclav Klaus, the Czech Republic’s gift to common sense and overall smarts, would like to debate Al (there’s-money-in-global-warming) Gore, but G. is not interested. It would only elevate the skeptics, he says, as John Fund reports in Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary.
But he may have another motivation for avoiding Mr. Klaus [writes Fund]. As the late William F. Buckley once put it, “Why does bologna reject the grinder?”
Klaus yesterday likened cap-and-traders (limiters by fiat of carbon emissions) to promoting a program such as Soviets imposed on his country.
Yes. Central planners are all alike — like smokers at their pettin’ parties and poker games. They just gotta have another way to run things.
Later: Here’s another approach:
Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 by “hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars.”
The point: the group wants to “help Americans break free from the ‘carbon footprint guilt’ being imposed by Climate Alarmists.”
Yes, a sort of kill-the-guilt program.
Blithe Spirit 