Greenpeace unfurl banner as Czech president launches new book on environment…

The environmental group Greenpeace unfurled a banner on Prague’s Old Town Hall on Friday morning at the precise moment the Czech president, Václav Klaus, was launching a new book attacking Green politics at a café across the street. The Greenpeace sign pointed out that there were only 100 days until a UN climate change conference in Copenhagen and said action had to be taken. Mr Klaus questions received wisdom on global warming, denying that mankind is responsible for it. He also accuses environmentalists of impinging on people’s freedom. The title of the president’s new book translates as Blue Planet Under Threat; it follows 2007’s Blue Planet in Green Shackles.