I do not believe that global warming is the biggest challenge the earth is facing. I do not even believe it is actually taking place. (“Winter storm barrels across Northeast”, “Südeuropa versinkt im Schnee” ). And if it took place, I would not mind a more Mediterranean climate in Germany at all.
At the U.N. climate conference in Bali Al Gore compared the threat posed by global warming to the Nazi threat. And he alleged that ignoring the dangers of climate change would be similar to the appeasement policy towards Hitler in 1938.
So according to Al Gore logic I am an appeaser. But who does he think he is? A resistance fighter?
Before talking about appeasement and the Nazi era Al Gore should maybe have a closer look at one of the other Nobel candidates this year. Irena Sendler, a 97-year-old Polish woman, saved 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. 1943 she was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death. At the last moment she was saved.
But as we all know, she was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
More on Irena Sendler:
“The Nobel Appeasement Prize”
“What a Travesty, Gore awarded the Nobel Peace Prize!”
Excerpts of Al Gore`s speech in Bali:
(…) One of the victims of the horrors of the Third Reich in Europe during World War II wrote a famous passage about the beginnings of the killings, and he said, “First I came for the Jews, and I was not a Jew, so I said nothing. Then, they came for the Gypsies, and I was not a Gypsy, so I said nothing,” and he listed several other groups, and with each one he said nothing. Then, he said, they came for me.
For those who believed that this climate crisis was going to affect their grandchildren, and still said nothing, and were shaken a bit to hear that it would affect their children, and still said and did nothing, it is affecting us in the present generation, and it is up to us in this generation to solve this crisis. (…)Despite a growing number of honourable exceptions, too many of the world’s leaders are still best described in the words Winston Churchill used in 1938 when he described those who were ignoring the threat posed by Adolf Hitler. He said, and I quote: “They go on in strange paradox, decided only be undecided, resolved only to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.” (…)
Und der passende Kommentar zu Al Gores Vergleich von Ulli Kulke in der WELT, 15.12.2007, “Das Klima und die Nazis” :
Irgendwann musste der Vergleich kommen. Al Gore war es, der ihn jetzt ausbrütete im schwülen Bali: Klimaschutz ist Antifaschismus. Würde man der US-Regierung und ihrer zögerlichen Haltung bei der CO2-Minderung nicht Einhalt gebieten, deutete der Friedensnobelpreisträger an, so sei dies zu vergleichen mit dem Einknicken der Welt vor Hitler beim Münchner Abkommen 1938. Und: Auch während der Nazizeit hätten zu viele Leute zu lange geschwiegen, meinte der frühere US-Präsidentschaftskandidat mit Blick auf diejenigen, die die Dringlichkeit einer radikalen Klimapolitik noch immer nicht einsähen.
Mutig, mutig, möchte man da sagen, da läuft sich einer schon mal warm als Widerstandskämpfer. Mindestens sollte der Weltstar dafür im nächsten Jahr die Premiere des Tom-Cruise-Streifens “Valkyrie” über Stauffenberg moderieren dürfen - wenn ihm die Klimakarawane um den Globus Urlaub gewährt.
Vergleiche mit Deutschlands finsterster Epoche, das weiß Al Gore vielleicht nicht, gehen selten glücklich aus für diejenigen, die sie ziehen. Vor allem, wenn sie allzu schief sind wie in diesem Fall. Was jene Zeit charakterisierte, war auch, dass allzu viele allzu lange in eine Richtung marschierten und keinen Widerspruch duldeten, bei Todesstrafe. (…)