Guest essay by Eric Worrall
German Green Leader Annalena Baerbock has apologised for suggesting German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s apparent ill health was caused by global warming.
Germany’s Green leader sorry for linking Angela Merkel’s shaking to climate crisis
German Green party leader Annalena Baerbock has tweeted her apologies after suggesting that the chancellor’s trembling may have been caused by climate disruption. Germany is currently in the middle of a heat wave.
Germany’s Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock has apologized after suggesting that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s trembling episodes were connected to climate change.
During a press conference in Berlin on Friday, at which the German Greens were presenting their climate protection plan, Baerbock said, “regarding the hot temperatures, we can see from the chancellor it is clear that this summer climate has health consequences.”
The Green party leader then mentioned her recent trip to Iraq, where temperatures have reached 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit). If such heat ever hit Germany, she said, “anyone who stands in the sun for an hour would get shaky.” “The heat doesn’t stop for chancellors either,” she added later.
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Read more: https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-green-leader-sorry-for-linking-angela-merkels-shaking-to-climate-crisis/a-49412475
Maybe someone in Germany can explain; was this a misjudged attempt at humour, or was the German green leader serious?
Baerbock wants to steal Angela’s radioactive merkin
Wish I hadn’t looked up what that word meant! Thanks!
A tie dyed merk. Lots of green and red, rugged manufacture. Take plenty of abuse
Its cold that makes me shiver, heat makes me sweat.
One suggestion, if asked . What are you going to do about Climate Change ?
reply Do you mean Global warming ?
They will of course say No, climate change .
Then you try to explain that if the climate is changing what is doing it, ?
After all blaming it on a tiny trace element for a major change of air
movement is so silly as to be laughable.
So if you can finally get them to admit that it all started with Global
Warming, then point out that it had stopped way back in 1997, and this
was why they changed to climate change.
Just a thought.
MJE VK5ELL
The only good jokes they make are unintentional.
I know someone who taught us that electricity can fortunately be stored in the grid and she did the math.
You guessed it, it was the same Mrs Baerbock a few weeks ago. So you see, we are really humerous in Germany
Green Party … joking again . The one trick pony of politics that is going no where .