President Klaus to address UN conference on global warming

President Vaclav Klaus is to address a UN conference on global warming in September, his spokesman Petr Hajek told the CTK news agency on Tuesday. The Czech president is a strong critic of what he calls "the hysteria surrounding global warming" and has even published a book on the subject called "Blue, not Green Planet" in which he claims that freedom -not the climate - is endangered by "ambitious environmentalism". President Klaus himself confirmed he would be attending the conference, telling Radio Free Europe that he was looking forward to the event and planned to give a very tough speech.