{"id":274262,"date":"2023-08-18T14:02:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274262"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:02:30","slug":"german-military-plane-dumps-200000-litres-of-jet-fuel-into-the-atmosphere-on-two-failed-attempts-to-fly-germanys-foremost-green-politician-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274262","title":{"rendered":"German Military Plane Dumps 200,000 Litres of Jet Fuel into the Atmosphere on Two Failed Attempts to Fly Germany\u2019s Foremost Green Politician to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0EUGYPPIUS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last Sunday, Germany\u2019s ridiculous Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock departed for a week-long tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. The purposes of the trip were, as usual, fairly hazy. Her flight would demonstrate that \u201cdespite the great distance\u201d, Germany and the Pacific are \u201cclosely connected by common values and a common view of the world\u201d, and that we can \u201crely on each other and support each other as strategic partners\u201d. Apparently, performing these close liberal connections for the media requires the massive carbon emissions of long airplane flights, even for a Green politician who is in general opposed to air travel for ordinary people and\u00a0once toyed with a proposal to ban all domestic flights in Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The centrepiece of Baerbock\u2019s junket was set to be a tedious post-colonial liturgical exercise in Canberra, at which she would oversee the return of \u201ccultural assets\u201d from the Grassi Museum in Leipzig to the Aboriginal Kaurna people. These objects\u00a0include<\/a>\u00a0a fishing net, a long thin stick reported to be a spear, and two shorter sticks variously described as a club and a digging stick or a wooden sword-cum-club and a digging-stick-cum-bark-peeler. The truth is that they\u2019re just sticks and nobody knows what they were for. Nor were these quotidian hunter-gatherer accoutrements stolen from the Kaurna. They were acquired legitimately by German missionaries between 1838 and 1839 in the course of ethnographic research. These then donated them to the Historical Museum in Dresden, via which they found their way to Leipzig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas, Baerbock was unable to play the part of self-flagellating Western colonial transgressor and reinvest the Kaurna with their sticks at the ceremony yesterday. Jens Hoch, a German embassy official, had to fill in for her, because the second-hand Bundeswehr planes used to transport the highest officeholders of the Federal Republic are too old and unreliable to perform flights that commercial airlines manage daily without incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who has\u00a0priority in booking government flights<\/a>, had dibs on the only available modern and reliable aircraft in the fleet, an Airbus A350. She had reserved it for a separate trip to Australia to observe the 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup. Faeser cancelled her girl-power spectatorship exercise after the early elimination of the German team, but the Luftwaffe could not rebook the flight, because too few of their personnel are qualified to fly the modern aircraft. Baerbock had to take a 23-year-old Airbus A340 instead. This plane was once called the \u201cKonrad Adenauer\u201d after the first chancellor of the Federal Republic, but they scrubbed his name from the livery sometime after a serious incident in 2018, when it\u00a0lost all electrical power<\/a>\u00a0on an abortive flight to bring Angela Merkel to the G20 summit in Buenos Aires. The\u00a0Berliner Zeitung<\/em>\u00a0reports that the A340 was itself a short-notice replacement for another Bundeswehr airplane that ended up being grounded because of unnamed technical problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baerbock and her entourage departed Germany on their rickety aircraft without incident, landing to refuel at Abu Dhabi late Sunday or early Monday morning. They took off again at 3:33 am bound for Australia, but the pilots found they could not retract the landing flaps. They had to dump 100,000 litres of fuel to make the overweight plane fit for landing. When jets dump fuel at altitude, it is aerosolised; the small droplets eventually decay into water vapour, ozone and carbon dioxide, all of which would normally contribute to the greenhouse effect, but as in this case the fuel was released on behalf of Germany\u2019s leading Green climate botherer, we can be assured that the action had if anything an emissions-reducing effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back at the Abu Dhabi airport, Baerbock opted not to continue to Australia via a vastly more climate-friendly if considerably less comfortable commercial flight; throughout her tenure in Scholz\u2019s cabinet, she has used government planes for 70 trips, while flying commercial only a handful of times. After repairs, the A340 departed on a second attempt for Australia at 1am on Tuesday. Yet again, the flaps jammed, forcing the pilots to dump another 100,000 litres of fossil fuels into our carbon-laden atmosphere. Defeated and the\u00a0subject of international mockery<\/a>, Baerbock\u00a0returned to Hamburg<\/a>\u00a0via a commercial Emirates flight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the European social welfare states, Germany occupies an extreme position, taxing the incomes of its workers at rates well above 40%. Unmarried workers without children\u00a0pay nearly 48% of their wages<\/a>\u00a0into the coffers of the Federal Republic. Only Belgium is more acquisitive. Half of these vast revenues go towards our\u00a0bloated social entitlement regime<\/a>; everything else, from the 11% of our workforce employed in the massive civil service, to the upkeep of government aircraft, must be funded from the remainder. It\u2019s hardly surprising that the state can hardly keep its ageing Airbus fleet in the air, and it\u2019s happy indeed that even our rulers are not spared the widening systemic failures. If the decay continues on its present course, I will live to see the day when Germany is no longer able to transport its politicians anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This piece originally appeared in\u00a0Eugyppius\u2019s Substack newsletter<\/a>. You can subscribe\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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