{"id":370284,"date":"2025-03-16T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T10:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=370284"},"modified":"2025-03-16T11:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T10:39:32","slug":"its-always-gruner-on-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=370284","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Always Gr\u00fcner on the Other\u00a0Side.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Climate Scepticism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Geoff Chambers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve probably heard about the revolution carried out by the new German Chancellor Merz, overturning the 80-year postwar German tradition of fiscal caution by changing the constitution, thus allowing Germany to borrow 500 billion euros to spend on infrastructure and a similarly unimaginable sum on defense.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the deal, Merz promised the Greens that 100 billion of the \u20ac500 billion infrastructure budgets would be spent on climate matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The excellent Eugyppius described the insanity of this on his blog a couple days before the Greens accepted the Hundred billion sweetener:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/p\/on-the-manifold-fractal-screwups<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To bring the Greens around, Merz decided to present himself as an avocado \u2013 black on the outside, and green on the inside\u2026 He told the press: \u201c\u2026 much of what we\u2019re proposing \u2013 if not almost everything \u2013 has already been proposed by the Greens in the last legislative period.\u201d It is like Merz forgot that German voters have televisions. \u201cSupport my plan, dear Greens!\u201d he told the press. \u201cIt contains everything you want, and everything my constituents oppose!’\u201d \u2026 explaining that he would be happy to use the word \u2018climate\u2019 more frequently in his justifications for the debt break overhaul if that would get them on board. Amazingly \u2013 and you will not believe this \u2013 the Greens did not agree\u2026 and then they presented their own separate plan to overhaul the debt brake \u2013 a more financially conservative proposal than the one Merz and the SPD had hammered out among themselves. Merz now finds himself publicly humiliated and without his trousers, standing on undefended territory to the left of the fucking Green Party \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Eugyppius describes himself on X as \u201ca sharp-tongued ex-American prof now living in Germany, dishing out fiery takes on everything from dodgy Covid jabs to migrant mayhem, all while championing free speech and scoffing at climatist nonsense.\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But wait. Why is Chancellor Merz promising anything<\/em> to the Greens? They\u2019re not part of his ruling coalition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is that Merz is not Chancellor yet. To get his spending programme (which is the precise opposite of everything his party has always stood for) passed, he needs to change the constitution, which requires a two thirds majority, which Merz\u2019s coalition with the Social Democrats won\u2019t have in the parliament that takes over in a few weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the present parliament, Merz\u2019s conservatives, plus the governing Social Democrat\/Green coalition do<\/em> have the required two thirds of the votes. So Merz is pushing through the constitutional change in the old parliament, with the votes of MPs who\u2019ve just lost the election, including many Greens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine if Britain had a similar system, where the old parliament continues to function for months after a new one has been elected. Starmer, on winning the election, could have said to Sunak: \u201cI\u2019ve got all these insane austerity measures I want to pass, that are opposed by the vast majority of my party. Could you push them through for me, then I\u2019ll take over, and be so hated that I guarantee that, come the next election, you\u2019ll be in power for a generation.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Greens, thrown out of power by the electors, have been awarded a hundred billion euro consolation prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could set up a fair number of NGOs with a hundred billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You\u2019ve probably heard about the revolution carried out by the new German Chancellor Merz, overturning the 80-year postwar German tradition of fiscal caution by changing the constitution, thus allowing Germany to borrow 500 billion euros to spend on infrastructure and a similarly unimaginable sum on defense.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

As part of the deal, Merz promised the Greens that 100 billion of the \u20ac500 billion infrastructure budgets would be spent on climate matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":370287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691833818,691818051,691820886,691833836,691823451],"class_list":{"0":"post-370284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-chancellor-candidate-friedrich-merz","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-green-party-of-germany","11":"tag-old-parliament","12":"tag-spd-social-democrats","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/00749a9cedbf0b9d64e26ed47271cf317.jpg?fit=1000%2C666&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1ykk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":412944,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=412944","url_meta":{"origin":370284,"position":0},"title":"\u201cExistential Crisis\u201d: German Chancellor Demands Tariff Protection for Industry Hit by High Energy Prices","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Germany\u2019s steel industry is facing an \u201cexistential crisis\u201d, Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned, as he signalled a shift toward greater economic self-reliance in Europe. 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