Difference between revisions of "File:WFS klaus lecture 2012.pdf"

Template:FileProv

Magistral Lecture to the World Federation of Scientists, Erice, Sicily, August, 2012

Extract from the concluding part of the lecture

"... as someone who personally experienced central planning and attempts to organize the whole of society from one place, I feel obliged to warn against the arguments and ambitions of the believers in the global warming doctrine. Their arguments and ambitions are very similar to those we used to live with decades ago under Communism. The arrogance with which the globalwarming alarmists and their fellowtravellers in politics and the media present their views is appalling. They want to suppress the market, they want to control the whole of society, they want to dictate prices (directly or indirectly by means of various interventions, including taxes), they want to “use” the market. I agree with Ray Evans that we experience the “Orwellian use of the words ‘market’ and ‘price’ to persuade people to accept a control over their lives”.