Czech president again critical of environmentalists including Gore

Czech president Vaclav Klaus has renewed earlier criticism of environmentalists including former US vice president Al Gore - recently jointly-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in publicising the issue of global warming. In an interview for the German news agency DPA, Mr Klaus said "the Rubicon had been crossed" when Mr Gore received the Nobel Prize, saying that in his view "propaganda" on the climate had become "official world doctrine" as a result. Mr Klaus, a sceptic of the human impact on climate change, also defended nuclear energy in the interview, saying the belief in other energy sources was "irrational". He made the latest statements on the eve of the German release of his book "A Blue, Not Green, Planet".