OpinionClimate debate: The AfD has a problem with science:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) retracts its disaster scenario ...
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Broad Parliamentary Unity Against AfD Climate ViewsFive major parties unite to reject AfD's climate denial amid IPCC's revision of worst-case warming scenario by 2100.
- The Bundestag's main factions from CDU to the Left Party unanimously oppose the AfD's stance on climate change.
- The IPCC downgraded its worst-case global warming prediction from five degrees to 3.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
- Other parties affirm climate policies remain essential despite economic challenges and significant industrial job losses.
- Climate policy decisions are political choices informed by science, which provides evolving insights rather than absolute truths.
Climate policy, for him, is the greatest fraud ever committed against humanity.— Karsten Hilse (AfD), in the Bundestag debate on climate policy; described climate policy as the greatest fraud ever committed against humanity.
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