Ausgetrickst: Während die Umweltbewegung am Wochenende einem Lieblingsritual nachging und gegen atomare Windmühlen anrannte, hat die Bundeskanzlerin zum Gegenschlag ausgeholt: Angela Merkel ist offenbar dabei, sich von ihrer wirtschaftlich und politisch unhaltbaren Klimapolitik zu verabschieden: Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a binding agreement on limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius. She has also sent out signals at the EU level that she no longer supports the idea of Europe going it alone… German Chancellor Angela Merkel has now decided to change the course of her climate policy. As recently as last December she said: “If we don’t succeed in limiting global warming to 2 degrees, then the costs of the resulting damages will be many times higher than what we now, with a change in our lifestyle, can achieve.” Now it’s a different story: Merkel will no longer endeavor to contractually implement the 2-degree target—in other words, to reach a legally binding agreement with specific reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. She doesn’t want to be snubbed again because she has realized that important countries won’t lend their support the next time around either. This was confirmed two weeks ago at the nuclear summit in Washington by Chinese President Hu Jintao and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

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(Dr. Benny Peiser)