Vaclav Klaus - who has a book out: Blue Planet in Green Shackles - talks about his reasons for writing it.

The whole process is already in the hands of those who are not interested in rational ideas and arguments. It is in the hands of climatologists and other related scientists who are highly motivated to look in one direction only because a large number of academic careers has evolved around the idea of man-made global warming. It is, further, in the hands of politicians who maximize the number of votes they seek to get from the electorate. It is also - as a consequence of political decisions - in the hands of bureaucrats of national and more often of international institutions who try to maximize their budgets and years of careers as well regardless the costs, truth and rationality. It is in the hands of rent-seeking businesspeople who are - given the existing policies - interested in the amount of subsidies they are receiving and look for all possible ways to escape the for them often merciless, but for the rest of us very positive, general welfare enhancing functioning of free markets. An entire industry has developed around the funds the firms are getting from the government.

He is, as he notes, an economist in a political role concerned that the climate change juggernaut imperils freedom. Having been freed from communism Klaus is sensitive to the issue.

Whether climate change is real or not I can agree with Klaus that something very ugly is happening as the interests of so many align. This is bad for society and even impairs our ability to respond effectively to climate change, if real.