Czech President voices dissent on climate change

Staying true to form as one of the world's most prominent climate change skeptics, Czech President Vaclav Klaus has no use for all the big promises on emissions reduction coming out of this year's General Assembly:

I do not intend to go into details of this issue here now, we should carefully follow the scientific debate and pay attention to the costs and benefits of our decision. I do, however, want to emphasize that the measures proposed to combat climate change represent another heavy burden, for both the developed countries which are falling into deep fiscal deficits now and for developing countries and this is in a situation when the rich countries, often pushing this agenda at international forums, are losing their ability to compensate the poorer countries for the impact of these additional costs.