Posted on 03/10/2020 8:05:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Climate law rollbacks in the US and Australia have origins in libertarian think tanks that trade in climate denial. Investigative journalists have exposed how one is now trying to strip climate protections in Germany.
“The Trump administration frequently asked us for advice,” James Taylor, chief strategist at US libertarian and climate-skeptic think tank, The Heartland Institute, told two journalists posing as PR consultants representing German car and coal companies in late 2019. “What can we get for €500,000?” one of the bogus young PRs asked, offering an anonymous donation to Heartland on behalf of a large German automotive client.
Taylor soon pitched an anti-climate campaign that drew on Heartland’s bona fides helping US President Donald Trump dismantle climate protections.
Heartland has claimed it played a “major role” in Trump’s decision to withdraw the world’s largest historical greenhouse gas emitter from the Paris climate accord. […]
In Germany, where car and coal companies are facing diesel bans and a coal phaseout by 2038, Heartland is offering anti-climate communications tools that have seemingly succeeded in tempering or reversing climate policies in the US.
As revealed in The Heartland Lobby report resulting from a joint investigation by non-profit newsroom Correctiv and current affairs TV show, Frontal21, Heartland’s proposed anti-climate spin campaign would focus on rolling back “prohibitive climate laws” in Germany. It would also push “diesel instead of electric cars, energy from coal instead of wind turbines, industry growth instead of environmental protection.” …
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Deutsche Welle......laecherliche Quatsch wie immer.....
And ve haff vays of making you deny your denial of climate change....
Diesels generate less CO2 per mile driven than gasoline engines, all else being equal. Do they really want to reduce CO2, or not?
WTH is [gefälschte nachrichten]?
Fake News.
Proggies are cute when they project.
I can SEE the carbon put out by diesels.
LOL, couldn’t they have just said that. Looks like you could sprain something trying to pronounce that.
“Fake news” translated into German.
Particulates may be bad for you, but they aren’t the dreaded greenhouse gas. You know, the deadly CO2 that makes plants grow.
Yeah, they just don’t look at the whole picture. A warmer climate also evaporates more water out of the ocean, which precipitates all over the land in the evening when the sun goes down. NASA announced a few months ago that the earth was greening; but, that was ignored because it didn’t fit the narrative.
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