Author Archive for Edgar Gaertner
Edgar Gärtner is a prolific journalist, analyst and editor. He recently served as Director of the Centre for New Europe's Environment Forum. He previously served as Editor In Chief for the German Branch of the WWF. Edgar Gärtner is the author of Eco-Nihilism: A Critique of Political Ecology, TVR (Jena) available (in German) in the CFACT Europe bookstore.
Confounding cause and effect can lead to Apocalypse
by Edgar L. Gärtner
We neither need the Maya calendar, nor the prophecies of Nostradamus or Malachias, in order to be able to clearly recognize that the end of our intimate world approaches. Not only around Christmas 2012, but at the end of the current year, the cracks in the walls of the welfare-state organised European [...]
Petersberg Climate Dialogue: Merkel and Röttgen try to Dispense with the Drama
By Edgar L. Gärtner
Sophisticated self-deception
As already mentioned, the end of the Copenhagen climate summit at the end of 2009 demonstrated that the climatic political course of the European Union and particularly Germany lost its attractiveness in the world enormously.In view of the fact that Europe’s economy has stagnated as the only world region in the [...]
Flight bans: A lesson about the Precautionary Principle
by Edgar L. Gärtner
Just in time before the first business failures caused by several-day-long flight losses, the air traffic in Western and Central Europe slowly got off the ground after the complete flight ban. A good opportunity to take stock and to summarise what one can learn from the political crisis caused by a comparatively [...]
Hangover Breakfast in Bonn After Copenhagen Fiasco
by Edgar L. Gärtner
There were no significant steps taken toward a new global waming treaty at the April meeting in the Bonn Maritim Hotel of two ad hoc working groups of the UNFCCC parties. The official purpose of the conference was for the industrialized nations to negotiate additional obligations on the carbon dioxide reductions and [...]
Nuclear Energy from France or Frequent Blackouts
Climate Politics Means Chaos on the German Power Market
by Edgar L. Gärtner
“There is at present no other industry in Germany, which is torn up and directionless like the electricity industry. Reason is the dominance of environmental aspects in the energy and especially in the electricity politics.” Thus begins an analysis of the questionable developments on the [...]
World Water Day: Topsy-turvy World or False Ecology
Water is low on the United Nation’s priority list
by Edgar L. Gärtner
“Clean water for a healthy world“ is the theme of today’s 18th annual international World Water day. UN general secretary Ban Ki-Moon did not miss out the opportunity to point out that clean water is a scarce commodity on our watery planet and is becoming [...]
Global Warming, Post Normal Science Fake
What a pity that my book ‘Eco-Nihilism’, published in 2007 in Germany, has never been translated in English, because you can find there a special sub-chapter on the dangers of ‘Post Normal Science’ (PNS). Recently James Delingpole in the British ‘Spectator’ and in his ‘Telegraph’-Blog found that the concept of PNS, developed already in 1991 by Marxist Philosophers Silvio Funtowicz [...]
The Imposters are not giving up
“Climategate” as an argument for a World Environment Organization
The sudden but not unexpected resignation of the head of the UN Climate Secretariat in Bonn Ivo de Boer is feeding speculation about an imminent collapse of the whole global warming swindle. Only a few days earlier, Phil Jones, a leading member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel [...]
Is it Possible to Found World Politics on Science?
When I was writing these lines I received a piece of news that an US senate committee had to postpone a debate on Global Warming because of an icy snow storm over the US East coast . However, this weather capriole only confirms what more and more people think. They do no longer believe in [...]
Prevention is not Always Better than The Cure
by Edgar L. Gärtner
Lessons about Precaution from the Swine Flu Vaccine Fiasco
The French government under the ever-energized President Nicolas Sarkozy became aware at the beginning of the year that it was threatened to sit on more than 90 million doses of Swine flu vaccine, hastily ordered last year to face an allegedly advancing pandemic. Only five [...]
Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Dark Ages in Perspective
EDGAR GAERTNER (Frankfurt)
As you know the EU is phasing out traditional incandescent light bulbs in order to “save energy and the climate”. Consumers are obliged to successively replace the simple and cheap incandescent lamps once invented by Thomas Alva Edison by relatively complex and expensive fluorescent lamps with electronic stuff. Perhaps you do not know [...]
From Climategate to ETS-Gate?
Par Edgar L. Gärtner
Carbon Fraud is paving the way for a dictatorial world government
While EU representatives are praising the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in Copenhagen as panacea, European law enforcement agency Europol is revealing that carbon credit fraud has caused in the past 18 months more than 5 bn euros damage for European taxpayers. In [...]
The Battle against “Cap & Trade“ has still not been won. But there are new Allies
By Edgar L. Gärtner
While in the US Senate the disclosed confidential e-mails and documents on the web, regardless of how it occurred, is expected to pull the plug on “cap and trade” legislation, EU governments continue to walk straight ahead, although the expression “Climategate” is meanwhile even known on Wikipedia . The new German environment [...]
Climategate: Making the CO2 Bubble Burst
by Edgar L. Gärtner
“Climategate” is perhaps not the end of the global warming myth. But it is quite possible that British star blogger James Delingpole was not premature but right when he started his first blog after the appearance of 1079 rather confidential e-mails and 72 documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit [...]
Is CO2 Really a Problem?
By Edgar L. Gärtner, Frankfurt
After the APEC meeting in Singapore there is nearly nobody left on earth who believes that world leaders will sooner or later find a compromise on massive CO2 reductions. Not everybody regrets this. There are scientists casting serious doubts on the IPCC’s assertion that humankind is facing unprecedented levels of CO2 [...]
