"I don't need any figures" – Klingbeil defends billion-dollar course for renewable energies
In Berlin, Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil defended the government's course on renewable energies in the Bundestag on May 20, 2026. The trigger was a question from AfD MP Rainer Kraft in the government questioning. Kraft demanded a concrete effect of 100 billion euros of taxpayers' money on the global temperature rise. Klingbeil first referred to studies on individual instruments in the Climate and Transformation Fund. But then he said, "I don't need numbers to know it's right." This brought budget control, energy costs and the burden on taxpayers into focus.
It is pretty obvious that this is Ed Miliband's attitude - "I don't need numbers to know it's right." More generally, it is likely to be a widespread attitude among the governing classes, many of whom don't seem keen on numbers anyway.
There is a certain nervousness wittering its way through the Net Zero nonsense though, a sense that some numbers could mean something, even something important.
"Do those scruffy sceptics know something we don't? Surely not."
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Obviously we need 'proper' Socialist Thermometers that will always provide approved numbers. In fact a stick painted red and showing only 'Too hot' would do.
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DJ - good idea, although it may be a mistake to link socialism with a big red stick. Or maybe the link is there already, it certainly seems to be.
Socialist thermometers is exactly what the Met Office relies on
decnine - thermometers which reflect 'our values' rather than temperatures.
He doesn't need any figures because he probably wouldn't understand them anyway. Just as long as he has the right opinions for whatever is the German equivalent of a North London dinner party, that's all he needs to know.
Anon - yes, that's how they appear to view it, say the right things, it's far more important to them than veracity.
The wheels have not yet come off the Climate Change Bandwagon but I can detect a very definite wobble. I look forward to the resulting crash. I hope there are many casualties.
John - I agree, a very definite wobble. If the crash takes Ed Miliband and the BBC with it that will be good, many more would be better.
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