By P Gosselin
Confidential government conference fears millions losing heat this winter…schools now handing out blankets for children to keep warm.
German online daily Bild here reports on how the country’s federal government “fears a millionfold heating failure in winter”, citing sources from a confidential conference between the office of the Chancellor and the federal states.
The worries that Germans may have to freeze and go to extremes to stay warm are as real as ever, so much so that German schools have begun turning down the heat to save on fuel and handing out blankets to children so that they can keep warm in the classroom during their lessons, reports the pleiteticker.de here.
It’s the latest humiliation German children have been subjected to after 2 years of cancelled lessons, curfews and mandatory mask wearing due to the Corona “pandemic”.
“Children must not freeze in schools,” officials have declared, but that doesn’t mean the classrooms will be heated sufficiently for the eleven million or so schoolchildren in Germany. Schools are planning a room temperature of 20 degrees or less as they are being called upon to save energy individually. “In Heppenheim, too, the classroom temperature for secondary schools is 19 degrees – elementary school students are still allowed to freeze at 20 degrees,” according to pleiteticker.de.
“In order to offer the little ones some protection against the frost, the Martin Buber School’s booster club has now even handed out 50 cuddly blankets – decorated with the school logo,” according to pleiteticker.de. With room temperatures below 20°C, the children will certainly need them.
Moreover, Germany’s Federal Environment Agency recommends classrooms should be aired every 20 minutes to keep the air fresh and clean of viruses, thus exacerbating the situation additionally Shock ventilation increases heating energy consumption by up to 20 percent.
“The whole situation is absurd,” reports pleiteticker.de. “You want to fight Corona and save energy at the same time. Meanwhile, whether children receive the little bit of education still left that the German school system offers is of just as little interest as their physical and mental health.”
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Jane Eyre anyone?
Years of “Green policies” are responsible.
58 nor 62 degrees is not freezing, let’s not get hysterical. Grow up on the plains in the 30’s.
. Anyway, Germany made a deal with the devil and now they are playing for it. They transitioned from Nuke power to two tier NG turbine systems. The prospect of LNG from Brazil and USA was one of the reasons Germany quickly transitioned away from Nuke power. The USA and Brazil NG and LNG prospects looked promising until Air France 447 fell out of the sky and Russian invaded Ukraine and Obama sought to restrict NG pipelines from PA and NY to LNG ports. So Germany was stuck with Gazprom and Putin deals. Germany never did build the LNG ports they had planned and the LNG ports planned in the Black Sea died with Russia taking Crimea. France never did fully get rid of their Nuke power obviously they felt Putin had a strangle hold on Brazil and the climate change anti-fossil fuel propaganda machine in the US Yet we know that Russia paid in part for the immense climate change propaganda machine that has been grinding away since 2014. The Russian icy fossil fuel war has been on since 2011. Time to get real and embrace the truth… time to start fracking from one end of the globe to the other so we can hammer despots and side step scoundrels.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/596304-investigate-russias-covert-funding-of-us-anti-fossil-fuel-groups/
Because of society not understanding the impact of baby boomers growing up, school systems in the 1960s and 70s did not plan. I spent most of Grade 7 (1968,69) in a portable in Edmonton Alberta, fine in the fall and spring but damn cold in winter. January temperatures were often in the minus 30, 35C range. We had a small portable electric heater. Sweaters, hats and gloves were normal. I survived
Portables were more or less trailers which could be moved from school to school depending on the overflow of students that could not be accommodated in the real school building.
I taught in one of several trailers outside the main building on a Navajo Indian Reservation school for a year. Fall was beatiful down there. As the temps turned, our gas heater in the utility closet became wonky, building up gas through several cycles of the malfuntioning ignition system, til it came on with a whoosh. At first it was a whoosh. After several weeks and with greater frequency it became a bang. Then a boom! I kept the utility door closed and locked for the children’s safety.
Interestingly, the Navajo people are very stoic about these things, so nobody said anything – we just looked at each other with terror in our eyes and curiosity to see how long we could stand it. It went on for weeks. Finally one cold Novermber day it scared me so badly that I sent a kid for the custodian who arrived just in time to be blown back on his heels.
Also I recall those – as entering school in the mid 60s – big classes of kids and lots of portables here in Ontario. I recall them being very cold. First class room portables of our experience with older siblings; was in 1966 in Toronto. Lots of runny noses too as I recall, I was one- and I can’t function well when I’m cold. Add in blustery bitterly cold wind makes for a miserable time in them.
I grew up in Hawaii where it reached 88 degrees with 95% humidity daily without air conditioning in school or at home. Went to HS in Virginia in 95 degree heat without air conditioning but the school was heated to a stifling 78 degrees in winter. Go figure. Time to toughen up. During a two very cold winters of 1977, 1978, in Chicago, it was almost impossible to heat the home above 62 even if you tried some days.
This is a combination of fear mongering and acclimating the sheeple to the coming 0C and lower nights with no lights or heating or cooking or transportation capability.
Quick build more wind turbines
There is a simple solution for this, if it is truly uncomfortable or unhealthy raise the thermostat. It is that easy, young people’s health and safety come before useless rules made necessary by dreadful decisions made by incompetent and ignorant administrators and bureaucrats.
“With room temperatures below 20°C, the children will certainly need them.”
WHAT !!!! What a joke. 20C is a comfortable temperature to sit in. If cold, wear a jacket.
Careful indulging impure thoughts Greta lest logic and rationality sets in permanently and…gulp…that way lies the dark side!
Greta Thunberg on nuclear and why it’s ‘completely insane’ we aren’t talking about energy saving (msn.com)
Many European nations are turned into third world countries with basic needs becoming unaffordable or scarse. All due to government policies.
Modern society kicked back to medieval times.by governments either incompetent or enemies of their own people
Why is it that the people who turn the furnace up to 22C in winter also seem to be the ones who turn the AC down to 18C in summer?
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/02/heating-people-not-spaces.html
Figure the average residence in Berlin. Figure the average Berlin January night. The heat goes off completely. How long to freeze the pipes?
“With room temperatures below 20°C, the children will certainly need them”
That’s just crazy. This is a northern hemisphere country where the winter temperature always goes below freezing overnight, and usually remains so during the day. It would be very wasteful to have the heat so high.
All winter, in Australia where we don’t do cold, I didn’t turn my thermostat above 19°C, and 16°C overnight. I thought I was being rather wasteful of power at that.