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Bankruptcies, bad luck and breakdowns: Holidays with the electric car 22nd August 2020 from cold sun Only in quick succession were there two reports on climate issues that are closely related. First of all, the decrease in greenhouse gas emissions in Germany by the end of 2019 was announced . This has decreased by 36.5% compared to 1990. The decrease from 2018 to 2019 was 6.3%. The German target of 40% by the end of 2020 is very likely to be achieved in view of the decline in economic performance caused by Corona. At the same time, Chancellor Merkel invited leading activists from Fridays For Future (FFF) to the Chancellery, including Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer. In advance, Luisa Neubauer from FFF made serious accusations against the Chancellor that Germany had not done anything about the climate crisis in the last 15 years of her Chancellorship . Mind you, FFF is primarily speaking of a climate crisis. Luisa Neubauer's thesis is not really plausible against the background of the recently announced decline in emissions. How could a mitigation happen if nothing was done? The sums that Germany, or should one better say German electricity customers, have invested in the expansion of renewable energies in recent years are enormous. They have been estimated at 500 billion euros since 2000. Germany has created capacities to generate 110 GW of electricity from solar and wind. The problem is that these ratings are not achieved. When a lot of wind and a lot of sun actually come together, there is an oversupply. Ultimately, it can only be solved by regulating and / or giving away the electricity abroad. That happens regularly and it costs a lot of money. 1
With a lot of money, an unreliable, highly volatile power generation was built, which cannot exist without subsidies and which ultimately depends on the whims of nature. The low wind summer 2020 in Germany is a current example of this. One cannot imagine what would have happened if Germany had only invested a fraction of the money it spent in research for storage or CO2 capture. Possibly the country would then have similarly low emission values for the generation of electricity as France or Sweden. In contrast to Germany, these two countries have not abandoned nuclear power. So what could FFF's demands on Merkel be? The situation is bizarre anyway, because Thunberg and Neubauer accuse the "system" (presumably democracy and market economy is meant) with complete failure . They want to change the "system", in which direction the activists unfortunately do not say. Now the FFF heads meet with the woman who decides on the guidelines of politics in Germany - in a "system" that both actually reject and want to replace with something else. Perhaps the Chancellor will have even found out what the FFF has in mind, apart from listening to science. As if it were that science has infallibility like a religion. The way Merkel is to be assessed will not make it public. By the way, during Merkel's time as Chancellor, greenhouse gas emissions fell by 19% .
Sure, we are facing a crisis of man-made global warming from use of fossil fuels, six meter deep snow.
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