CO2 is thinning the atmosphere, causing solar warming, CDU politician Manuel Hagel explained to schoolchildren.
He got an “F”
The southern state of Baden Württemburg is holding state elections this coming Sunday, March 8, and CDU candidate Manuel Hagel (37) recently made an ARD televised campaign stop at a school.
The stop could not have gone worse for Hagel, having since become the target of significant public ridicule and criticism.
The gaffe: Hagel attempted to explain the greenhouse effect to a class of elementary school children – on national television – but wound up showing the audience that he fundamentally didn’t have the first clue about the subject.
While standing at a monitor, Hagel explained to the onlooking students that the greenhouse effect worked as follows:
Between the earth and the sun is the atmsphere. And as this gets increasingly thin, the sun gets hotter and hotter. And the reason for this is CO2 emissions and and and. And that is the greenhouse effect.”
Confused candidate
Scientific critics and social media users quickly pointed out that the greenhouse effect is actually caused by gases like water vapor, CO2 and methane trapping heat within the atmosphere, and not by the atmosphere getting thinner and the sun getting hotter.
Even the teacher seemed stunned after Hagel’s expalantion, shaking her head and sarcastically saying: “Wunderbar. Bin beeindruckt.” (Wonderful, I’m impressed.)
It’s not certain if Hagel confused the greenhouse effect with the ozone-hole and other scientific phenomena. One thing is sure: he ‘s very confused about the subject.
The incident particularly gained traction because candidate Hagel was positioned as an authority figure educating children, and the fact that he taught them incorrect information and didn’t know wwhat he was talking about is particularly embarrassing. He’s the person who should lead one of Germany’s largest states, home to Mercedes Benz?
He had too much Trollinger for breakfast.
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In his report “Kühlt das Treibhausgas CO2 die bodennahe Atmosphäre?” (https://eike-klima-energie.eu/2010/04/09/kuehlt-das-treibhausgas-co2-die-bodennahe-atmosphaere/) EIKE-press spokesman, Prof. Dr. Luedecke, pointed out:
“Wir haben über das Thema bereits ausführlich berichtet, hier, hier, hier und hier. Der Begriff „Konsens“ ist dennoch nicht 100% zutreffend. Es gibt nämlich eine verschwindende Schar von Apologeten, die behaupten, der Treibhauseffekt existiere in der von der heutigen Wissenschaft erklärten Form überhaupt nicht, oder extrem, zunehmendes CO2 kühle die bodennahe Atmosphäre, anstatt sie zu erwärmen, nämlich Chilingar et al. in “Greenhouse Gases and Greenhouse Effect, Environ Geol, doi 10.1007/s00254-008-1615-3 (2008) sowie Gerlich und Tscheuschner hier. Nun gibt es ganz allgemein in der Physik immer wieder exotische Hypothesen, warum nicht auch in der Atmosphärenphysik? Immerhin werden die Sonderhypothesen über das Treibhausgas CO2 von einer Handvoll theoretischer Physiker geteilt und sind sogar in (peer reviewd) Fachzeitschriften veröffentlicht.
Damit könnte man zur Tagesordnung übergehen, auch wenn viele Amateure diese Hypothesen in einer Heftigkeit propagieren, die an die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Lutheranern, Kalvinisten, Zwinglianern und Täufern im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert erinnert, bei denen Meinungsgegner innerhalb der gleichen protestantischen Fraktion heftiger bekämpft wurden als der gemeinsame Feind, die katholische Kirche. Im Genf Calvins kam man als protestantischer Abweichler sogar auf den Scheiterhaufen.”
Since EIKE is still spreading this hairrising nonsense, one can conclude that EIKE considers the opinion of its press spokesman (and also member of the EIKE Advisory Board) to be correct.