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The Sun: How did you like your experience at Cornell, and what was your most memorable moment?

President Vaclav Klaus: I was here at a very unique moment in the history of my country [as it was still communist] and also at a time when the political and cultural situation in the United States was different than it is now. … So for us in the communist countries, a chance to spend a semester in an American university was a miracle. [It] was something that we’d been dreaming about. So for me to be here to study and to teach something and to meet people and other students was a great experience.

Sun: You’ve been a vocal critic of the global warming movement, could you briefly explain your position on global warming?

V.K.: I am not a critic of global warming; I am a critic of those people who believe in the idea of global warming.  That’s a difference. You know, I am not a climatologist … I am not fighting with the scientists whether they correctly measure global temperature or whether there are serious inaccuracies of what influences what. That’s not my fear. What I do criticize and what I consider unacceptable is the ideology behind global warming, which I call environmentalism or global warmingism. For me, it’s another way to mastermind people … [in my book] Blue Planet in Green Shackles, my answer is climate theories are okay, but freedom is endangered [by the movement.]

Read the full Q&A at the Cornell Daily Sun.

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