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December 9, 2008
Merkel: No Sacrificing Jobs to Global Warming Farce
Until recently, the USA's foot-dragging was about the only thing stopping the Western World from jumping off a cliff over the increasingly preposterous global warming hoax. But with the last grownups scheduled to leave Washington next month, Europeans have been forced to drop the sanctimonious posturing and defend sanity.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been keen to promote herself as a tough actor on climate change, but with a new EU climate deal in the making, she's issued a new caveat: It must not jeopardize German jobs.
Merkel used to exploit the hoax with the worst of them, even traveling to Greenland to pose with melting ice. But it's becoming clear that moonbattery has a price.
According to an unpublished report by the economy ministry, Germany risks losing more than 100,000 jobs if the EU were to force industries to pay for pollution rights that are currently free.
Another study by the Muenster-based EEFA research institute pointed to increased costs stemming from reforming pollution rights, making Germany's key industrial sector less competitive and threatening up to 300,000 jobs by 2020.
Infuriating environmentalists who couldn't care less about human suffering, Merkel now says of the impending EU climate deal,
It must not take decisions that would endanger jobs or investments in Germany.
Germans love Comrade Obama so much — maybe they would be interested in a trade.
On a tip from Charles O.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 9, 2008 7:42 AM
Comments
o.t. - blagojevich arrested.
Posted by: nanc at December 9, 2008 8:05 AM
sorry for the o.t., van, but the news is happening faster than i can report it!
guv paterson says once you go black you never go back! hope they caught it on a vid somewhere.
Posted by: nanc at December 9, 2008 8:14 AM
As someone stated earlier, you can only have hippies and their older counterparts in times of economic stability and growth. When reality smacks them in the face they often change their tune.
It never ceases to amaze me how left-leaning people never think their ideas through to the real consequences.
Posted by: Harris at December 9, 2008 8:26 AM
History is always written by the victors. It is often a justification of screwups and a glorification of unintended consequences which magically become grand strategy and incredible gaffes which become tactical brilliance. Since global warming has almost nothing to do with climate and everything to do with social engineering, it will be looked at in the future according to the outcome.
If they succeed in destroying Western Industrial civilization, then it will be recorded that this wonderful result, although based on slightly faulty science, was because great visionaries like Al Gore with an almost Godlike and mystical foresight led us so ably inspite of terrible people like Merkel.
Posted by: SnowSnake at December 9, 2008 10:08 AM
Somebody else who will be ignored by the liberal left-wing news media becuase they are sceptics in this global warming but her career could be threatned by the evil GREENPEACE,AL GORE,DAVID SUZUKI and the various liberal granola munchers
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 9, 2008 12:38 PM
