{"id":446359,"date":"2026-05-25T05:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=446359"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:16:03","slug":"germanys-afd-party-calls-debunked-climate-scenarios-greatest-fraud-in-human-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=446359","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s AfD Party Calls Debunked Climate Scenarios \u201cGreatest Fraud In Human History\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTrickZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By P Gosselin<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate alarmism under attack in Germany\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s No. 1 party \u2013 conservative AfD Party \u2013 calls for tangible consequences for politics, the media, and the judiciary after extreme emission scenario \u201cRCP 8.5 is no longer scientifically serious and will no longer be used.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) reports<\/a> that on May 20, 2026, the AfD requested a topical debate (Aktuelle Stunde) in the Bundestag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The background for the debate was the decision within the scientific IPCC\/CMIP7 framework to no longer use the extreme emission scenario \u201cRCP 8.5\u201d (or SSP5-8.5) as a plausible worst-case scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AfD climate spokesperson Karsten Hilse described the scenario as an implausible \u201chorror scenario\u201d and \u201cthe greatest fraud in human history\u201d, arguing that it had been used for years to generate panic and justify expensive climate measures, and had even influenced the Federal Constitutional Court\u2019s draconian 2021 climate ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other political parties (Union, SPD, Greens, Left) rejected the criticism. They argued that the extreme scenario had become unrealistic precisely because of the success of climate protection and renewable energies! Therefore, the AfD Party (the true conservatives) in Germany there is no need to change policy, especially since other scenarios with significant warming (up to approximately 3\u20133.5 \u00b0C) remain in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EIKE, however, vehemently contradicts the reasoning of the mainstream parties. Citing data from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy 2025, EIKE argues that the global contribution of wind (1.5%) and solar (1.3%) to the primary energy demand in 2024 totaled just around 2.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CO2 emissions have not slowed globally<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EIKE views the success of renewables as a sham argument, claiming instead that deindustrialization is the true cause of altered emission trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media coverage following the debate was very restrained, limited, and largely following standard patterns of political polarization. The topic did not trigger a major wave of media attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Climate alarmism under attack in Germany\u2026<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s No. 1 party \u2013 conservative AfD Party \u2013 calls for tangible consequences for politics, the media, and the judiciary after extreme emission scenario \u201cRCP 8.5 is no longer scientifically serious and will no longer be used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":446361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[691818153,691819331,691825909,691843271,691818154,691832963,691819094,691825694],"class_list":["post-446359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-models","tag-deindustrialization","tag-european-institute-for-climate-and-energy-eike","tag-ipcc-cmip7-framework","tag-net-zero","tag-rcp-8-5-scenario","tag-renewable-green-energy","tag-worst-case-scenario","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0-ChatGPT-Germanys-AfD-Party-Calls-Debunked-Climate-Scenarios-Greatest-Fraud-In-Human-History.png?fit=1536%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1S7l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":446033,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=446033","url_meta":{"origin":446359,"position":0},"title":"Spot On, New York Post, Billions Have Been Wasted Based on Fake Climate Science","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"05\/23\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent New York Post (NYP) article, titled \u201cBillions have been wasted on UN\u2019s climate change lies,\u201d describes how billions, if not trillions, of dollars have been spent worldwide attempting to slow or stop the world from experiencing the extreme climate change as forecast by the flawed, but widely used\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0right-nyp.jpg?fit=1200%2C668&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0right-nyp.jpg?fit=1200%2C668&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0right-nyp.jpg?fit=1200%2C668&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0right-nyp.jpg?fit=1200%2C668&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0right-nyp.jpg?fit=1200%2C668&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":364091,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364091","url_meta":{"origin":446359,"position":1},"title":"Projected Increase in Heat-Related Deaths in Europe: Misleading Models and Statistical Fearmongering","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/31\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent study published in Nature Medicine\u00a0warns that Europe could face up to 2.3 million annual heat-related deaths by 2100 unless drastic emission reductions are implemented. 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