I thought that with my warm winter clothes and seat-heating in my car this cold German summer could not do me any harm, but, alas, I ended up with flu in bed …
Now, one could expect that with temperatures close to zero in summer even hard-core believers in global warming would lose faith. But I do not see this happening.
I am not really surprised. German reactions to global warming are a little bit confusing, anyway:
On the one hand we want to reduce CO2 emissions, on the other hand we are opposed to atomic plants. Contradiction within the contradiction: We are opposed to atomic plants in Germany. But if Iran wants to use nuclear power, we do not mind.
Our government is taking part in global warming hysteria and at the same time implementing laws that force us to improve thermal insulation in our houses as if we were expecting a new ice age.
On the one side, we want to protect the environment, on the other side we want to drive at 200 km/h on the motorway.
But of course the old prejudice about Americans carelessly wasting energy and polluting the environment never dies. So I had a big smile on my face, when I read that emissions in Europe have increased much faster than in the US:
“Those Europeans Say the Darnedest Things” by Chris Horner. GlobalWarming.org, September 26, 2007:
(…) Instead, it appears that Europe’s emissions (as Kyoto defines Europe, and certainly as Europe defines Europe, including for these purposes) have not only increased much faster than the US’s but also that the EU has increased CO2 emissions much more than the US.