by Wolfgang Thüne – certified meteorologist, Oppenheim workshop for weather studies

Would you move into prison voluntarily and live under the state’s surveillance according to rules imposed on you although you are innocent? Certainly not! But would you consider this option in case somebody warned you against life outside getting more and more dangerous, even fatal? That hatred, intrigues and conflicts were on the rise without anything the state could do about it? A well-protected freedom of equals among equals might offer more liberties than a life of constant jungle warfare on the streets, even more so if the proposed jailhouse does actually comprise the whole world and therefore has no boundaries. Once all people have the same “footprint”, they will all jump just as far. Nobody can step off file. No envy will spoil the peaceful co-existence.
Living their lives in greenhouses is certainly not so bad for the plants. Sure, they wouldn’t volunteer to go in there but once they have been planted in the greenhouse they have no reason to complain. Deadly night frosts, which may occur even in May (as anybody knows who has ever heard of the “Frost Saints”), won’t touch them. They live under constant temperatures with stable humidity in artificially air-conditioned places. There is no shortage of clean air either. They are fed with an excess of carbon dioxide and any resulting oxygen is disposed of immediately. They may have to grow in file under constant surveillance, but they do produce lots of fruit and yield good earnings. Quite a nice existence, isn’t it, delightful not only for the gardener? All tomatoes display a somehow similar kind of red and none is being discriminated.

Angela Merkel advertises a secure life in the greenhouse with supporting guide rails

On 14th July 2012 the chancellor proudly announced in her video potcast: “Germany has the leading role of a vanguard for climate protection!” What is it that she wants to tell us that way, who is to be led? What is the significance of a “vanguard” anyway? In the old days, vanguards used to be the standard bearers of the cavalry. Today we have the standard bearers in the opening ceremonies of Olympic Games, who wouldnt exactly ride, but march ahead of their teams into the stadium. Does Germany feel like the vanguard of the world, marching ahead of the pack as everybody’s leader who sets the tone, speed, direction and fighting goals? Should such an insane megalomania lie at the bottom of the vanguard idea, then good night, Germany. Shall the German spirit heal the world?
This allegation is certainly not justified in case of the chancellor, but that of an insane megalomania is. The insanity lurks in the intention to protect the climate. Here the natural scientist has crossed the Rubicon and left physics in direction metaphysics. Here a physicist acts as a political world healer who wants to attenuate the fears of the deluded and to calm down the troubled people’s emotional climate. She poses as a caring greenhouse mother, who promises life in the greenhouse to be paradise-like under her supervision.
All the evil-doers out there, those climate killers and greenhouse sinners, would be punished and made pay for their reckless and quick-and maximal-profit-oriented behavior which leads towards climatic cataclysm as well as blood and thunder in climate wars. What the chancellor doesn’t say and untruthfully keeps silent about, is her inability to actually mend the weather. However, without this capacity the concept of climate protection is impossible and absurd. This cant is the hallmark of all climate politicians and climate experts who promoted “lies and deception” to become an “integral part of their research”.
A newspaper article from the “Allgemeinen Zeitung Mainz” of 27  July 2012 fits well into that. It reports on a study conducted by researchers from Berkeley University in California, who posed the simple question: Which social class is more prone to act immorally – the upper or the lower class? The result? Members of the upper class will cheat and lie more easily than those of lower social classes. The researchers infer a more positive attitude towards greed in general. When will the middle class, the classical bourgeoisie, rise up to the occasion and show the upper class the limits to their greed for power?

EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard also claims the vanguard role

At the EU level the efforts of Angela “Goddess of climate” Merkel may be welcomed, but they also raise suspicion, since all activities inevitably lead to questions regarding the pecking order. Just when the chancellor had flexed her muscles at the 3rd Petersberg Climate dialoguer, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard insisted on showing off hers. Whoever holds an office also wants to rule! She wants to make carbon dioxide emission drastically dearer, from the current 6 Euro per ton to 40 Euro per ton in 2020. She announced an “enabling law” to that effect which she would put before the EU parliament as well as those of all 27 member states. Were those emission rights practically given away for free up to now, this had to stop, since climate politics would count on this income and were pointless without it. If they pollute the environment, all carbon dioxide intensive industries would have to pay severe penalties. With regard to the serious question as to whether the industry will survive their decarbonization, whether they are going to perish during the operation or escape to other continents, politicians shrug their shoulders. They just want a carbon-dioxide-free Europe. Even if that should do away with any climatophobias, without carbon dioxide much greater fears are bound to set in. These would be existential fears, and the greenhouse would turn to be hell.
That is why the European Union is so keen on persuading the world climate conferences that their way is the only one leading to salvation and the entire international world should adopt it. Brussels could develop into the “4th Rome” of a new world religion, the global climate religion. The first step is to declare the current state of the climate with global average temperatures of 15 degrees centigrade to be “normal”.
Any trespassing against this standard, regardless in which part of the world, will be declared “abnormal” and a consequence of the climate sins committed by these states. These states can then be brought before international climate protection tribunals, pilloried, punished and ostracized. There will be plenty of opportunities for show trials and fictitious sentences. This won’t change the weather anywhere, but with such powers and corresponding “religious consecration” bestowed on them the world government could act as it pleases just like the inquisition of earlier times.

Theoretically the global greenhouse is ready and furnished, only the architects are reluctant to move in

Long before the imminent climate catastrophe had been announced in Germany in 1986, the two super powers USA and USSR had constructively designed the “greenhouse” in secret in the 1950s and promoted the “ecological balance” to become the ideal state of nature. This news was spread all over the world via the United Nations and their sub-organizations. When the first World Climate Conference was held in Geneva, organized by the World Metereological Organization in 1979, the first draft of this new “religion of world dominance” had been introduced into international politics. Ever since it has been essentially capitalistic-materialistic and focused on the Here and Now. “Climate paradise” on earth is the goal.
The “greenhouse” inspired the whole model. It all fits in a neat theory, one mankind, one world, one greenhouse. This is the only place where the old socialist-democratic goal of the greatest happiness of the greatest number may materialize at last. Let some egoists be unhappy with it, at the end the majority decides. If need be the majority can be persuaded for its own good, provided the envy reflex is employed and the illusion of equality is created.
Are these red tomatoes or red roses unhappy after all, grown in file as they are in their greenhouses?
They all look equally lucrative and sell well on the market. Why, ant colonies thrive well under their “Queen”, too. People know the ideal of the “good shepherd”, who leads his flock to the best pasture and takes care of the “evil wolf”. Many animal species threatened by extinction lead sustainable lives in zoological gardens. They are protected from enemies, groomed and fostered. Wasn’t that the task for which man was put on earth by his creator, to till it and to keep it, by the sweat of his brow?
For many a shepherd and prophet this modern world with its gigantic opportunities of communication has reached a degree of ripeness for unification of all people on this earth and the whole world, so that they aim to tear down all differences of sex, race and religion in the common greenhouse and take care of “peace on earth”. Nobody should fear any more, and what is so bad about living all together under one greenhouse roof, isn’t it quite similar to the glassy firmament? Those minimal restrictions of freedom are no real loss considering the enormous gains in quality of life and security. And obviously fighting off the imminent global climate cataclysm comes with a prize. Nobody could survive a global climate collapse. So all arguments speak in favor of the global greenhouse, for life in a “closed ecological system”, under a common climate sky, guaranteeing “global climate justice” to all people.
Wars for religion or world interpretation would come to an end, too, once all people would adhere to the climate religion. What a brave new world! Man his own creator, man as the good shepherd of the global and therefore unlimited greenhouse! A world zoomed down to a common climate level knows no consumption of resources and has no “rogue states”. It lives the eternal sustainability! This is also what the scientific advisory board of the Federal Government for Global Environmental Change argues for, which is chaired by “Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Consequences (PIK)“ director Prof Dr Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and demands a “Grand Transformation”.
Jorgen Randers, Professor for climate strategy at the Norwegian School of Management and author of the Club of Rome study “2052”, put it quite appropriately when he wrote in the 17th June issue of the “Berliner Tagesspiegel” about the RIO+20 summit: “A good dictator. That’s what the summit is!” He refers to Rome 2000 years ago, when quick decisions without long discussions were favored in case of external threats. For that reason they elected a dictator. Arguing for such a “benevolent dictator” one plays with the fire though, and one should also bear in mind that even those dictators were not able to prevent the Empire from collapsing. Even more alarming: “China is an interesting example. The Communist party made some long-term decisions there for the benefit of future generations. They are not subject to democratic control. […].” In Randers’ view the Chinese Communist Party is such a “benevolent dictator” who just does the right thing. Therefore it were not so bad that they claimed the power against the will of many other people. Those fresh winds, which are supposed to prevent the climate catastrophe from happening – is that the way they are blowing in the global greenhouse?

The weather cannot be protected, and neither the climate

This both groundbreaking and trivial insight was gained by Robert Goebbels, member of the EU parliament for the Socialist Workers’ Party of Luxemburg (LSAP). He summarized his impressions of the RIO+20-summit in the “Tageblatt” of 5th July 2012: 1.) Stop the summit-mania. “Mankind would benefit a lot if the international community actually stopped the travelling circus of international ’climate summits’.” 2.) The globe hasn’t got a thermostat. “The official climate goal of the EU to stabilize worldwide carbon dioxide emissions in a way that average temperatures won’t rise by more than 2 degrees is a total illusion.” Further: “As if the world climate could be regulated by means of some sort of thermostat … Average temperatures are useless anyway, on a planet with temperatures oscillating between –50 °C to +50 °C depending on season and latitude.” And his conclusion?: “The Europeans are about to destroy their industrial basis for utter dogmatism.” And EU climate commissioner Hedegaard confirms this notion! With their illusionary “CO2-free society” the EU bids farewell to the circle of industrialized nations in order to purge themselves for the sin emanating from the discovery of the steam engine in England which eventually did “heat up” the greenhouse. Untouched by all of that the weather follows its path as it is destined by the course of the stars and seasons. And just as the question “why” is inappropriate with regard to the weather the changes in climate remain as enigmatic.
Researchers of the Justus von Liebig University of Giessen recently revealed that the alleged heating up of the greenhouse isn’t quite the case. Together with an international team of researchers they investigated growth rings of Finnish pines in Lapland as far back as 138 BC. They concluded that the Roman period and the Middle Ages were warmer than previously thought. In a press release of the scientific information service “Informationsdienst Wissenschaft” on 9 July 2012 Prof Dr Jürg Luterbacher announced: “We were able to show that historical temperatures during the Roman and Middle age periods had been underestimated as cooler than they actually were.”
Something can’t be quite right with the greenhouse hypothesis, upgraded as it already is to pseudo-religious dogma status, if it was warmer 2000 years ago during Roman times and in the Middle Ages as compared with today. And some more to ponder for all climate worriers: with no doubt, those two warm historical periods were optimal times for Europe.    •