Klaus to deliver lecture on global warming on first foreign trip since hip operation

The Czech president, Václav Klaus, is preparing for his first overseas trip since undergoing a hip operation in June. On Saturday, Mr Klaus will leave for the Japanese city of Tokyo, where he is due to deliver a speech on global warming at an economics conference. The president, who has published a book entitled Blue Planet in Green Shackles, questions received wisdom on climate change; he has described global warming as both a false myth and nonsensical fiction, and compared Green politics to communism.