Agence France-Presse: Czech Environment Minister Martin Bursik on Thursday slammed President Vaclav Klaus over his speech at last week’s conference on climate change where he said the planet had been cooling for the past decade. “I am sorry to say that in his public appearances Vaclav Klaus manifests a combination of activism and amateurism,” said Green Party chairman Bursik, whose country holds the six-month European Union presidency. Klaus, the author of a book on climate change called “Blue …