| Climate Change - Is The World Still To Save |
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| Written by Carl Friis-Hansen |
| Sunday, 23 October 2011 12:31 |
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One dominant program at the moment is: "Der Klimawandel - Ist die Welt noch zu retten?" from Spiegel TV. On http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-21549.html you can get an impression (in particular if you are familiar with the German language). Spielgel TV takes for granted that we change the climate dramatically: "What can we humans do to reverse our self inflicted climate change?" No questions asked, the science is settled: The oceans will rise with at least one meter, the melting on North and South Pole is intensifying and glaciers all over the world is melting an an ever alarming rate.
My guess is that the German media is gearing up to defend a misguided and unscientific approach to the energy policy. One should think that a nation with one of the world's most developed industry, would want to protect this high standard by keeping competitive. But how will they keep competitive with self inflicted skyrocketing energy prices, and how can they on one side claim we have to minimize production of CO2 and on the other side close down nuclear power plants, substituting them with coal fired plants combined with wind turbines. They seem do defend a "greening" of Germany by repeating their "green" propaganda again and again. Occasionally a propaganda program will interview a skeptic, but only to present him as ridiculous, and always with the moderator finishing with a fatherly, mature "green" viewpoint. In this way we are all made clear that skeptics are a few wishful conservative old fools, who does not care about environment and our blue planet. It is sickening, distasteful and horrifying that German TV channels present the climate change, which nobody denies is taking place, in such a simplistic and propagandistic way. Next thing will be the tree-day weather forecast is to be defined by the government in order to adjust the commodity prices on the stock exchange.
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| Last Updated on Sunday, 23 October 2011 12:32 |