In an interview on a Bild podcast, Swiss-based meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann strongly criticized Germany’s approach to dealing with heatwaves and climate issues, telling the German audience, “You’re a really crazy country.”
Article here online: nau.ch
Kachelmann told Bild the current European heatwave is unprecedented but that Germany and Switzerland got relatively “lucky” because the core of the heatwave was centered further west over France.
On recommendations on how to deal with heat waves, Kachelmann sharply rejected advice like keeping windows closed during hot daytime hours, arguing that this practice only makes conditions for elderly people in small apartments far more miserable with a higher risk of dying. He criticizes politicians for inconsistency, specifically targeting the Green Party for supporting wood and pellet heating, which he points out is even worse for the climate than burning coal, oil, or gas.
Deep-seated anti-science bias
Kachelmann refered to Germany as a “really crazy country” (“durchgeknalltes Land”) due to what he sees as a deep-seated anti-science bias and cultural superstition surrounding basic cooling methods. For example, one widespread superstition leads Germans to fear drafts flowing across rooms and air conditioning, believing they cause stiff necks or illness, rather than using fans or AC units to save lives during extreme heat.
“Globally speaking, we’re the number one country for superstition. Nowhere else in the world is there so much superstition,” Kachelmann said.
German schools still being built with cooling systems
Kachelmann also points to real-world consequences of this mindset, such as a school that is currently being constructed in Cologne without installing any cooling systems. Indeed, that’s one glaring peculiarity in Germany. If the climate alarmists truly believed any of their doomsday claims regarding future heatwaves, you’d think the country would have started installing air conditioning systems decades ago, But they didn’t. Either they never believed their own rhetoric, or they are completely comfortable with watching people die.
In Kachelmann’s view, prioritizing unfounded fears over scientific reality during dangerous heatwaves makes the population “uneducated and hostile to science,” directly contributing to preventable heat-related deaths.
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When it comes to science, Kachelmann is a man-made climate alarmist, blaming this summer’s Western European hot weather on climate change due to greenhouse gases. He says Berlin could have reached 45°C had the heat been centered over Germany instead of France. In his view, the heat wave came with the label: Made by anthropogenic climate change. An absurd claim that completely ignores natural causes and history.
Kachelmann ist actually German, just living in Switzerland and ranting around from there. 😉
What is the story about prior hot days in Berlin? Would 45°C been a record?
My house, built in 1980, was designed for central heating and cooling. In the USA, most classrooms are not utilized in the summer months, but I’ll guess the offices of the administrators have AC.
the current European heatwave is unprecedented…
THE “BLACK SWAN” OF 1540: ASPECTS OF A EUROPEAN MEGADROUGHT. CHRISTIAN PFISTER.
Jan Buisman – A Thousand Years of Weather, Wind, and Water in the Low Countries.
In Jan Buisman’s third volume,(1450–1575), the year 1540 is documented as the host of the most extreme, terrifying megadrought and heatwave in the recorded history of Europe and the Low Countries. Buisman uses vivid historical language—referring to “blood-red suns”—to reconstruct an unprecedented 11-month meteorological disaster that gripped the region from winter through late autumn.
Chronology of the 1540 Megadrought -The Dry Winter: The crisis began early. Very little rain or snow fell during the winter of 1539–1540, leaving groundwater tables severely depleted before spring even arrived.
The Spring Heat: By March and April, temperatures soared to summer-like levels. Cloudless skies and complete lack of rainfall baked the soil, creating giant cracks in fields across the Netherlands and Belgium.
The Summer Peak: July and August brought an unbelievable heatwave. Modern climate reconstructions utilizing Buisman’s data estimate that temperatures consistently broke 40°C (104°F), far eclipsing modern historical analogues like the 2003 European heatwave.
Environmental & Social Impact- Drying of the Rivers: The Rhine, the Meuse (Maas), and the Scheldt rivers effectively shrank to trickle streams. Smaller watercourses, canals, and wells dried up completely. Shipping, trade, and watermill operations ground to a total halt.
The “Blood-Red” Sky:
Massive forest fires and peat fires raged across the continent. The sheer volume of smoke hanging over the Low Countries choked cities and caused the sun to appear as a dark, eerie crimson disc for weeks at a time.
The Raisin Harvest: While grain crops failed and cattle died from lack of drinking water, the extreme heat had a bizarre side effect on viticulture. Grapes dried into raisins directly on the vine. The resulting 1540 vintage was a historically hyper-sweet, highly coveted wine known for centuries after.
Public Health: The lack of clean water triggered widespread outbreaks of dysentery and other waterborne illnesses as people resorted to drinking stagnant, polluted residue from dried-up riverbeds. Buisman emphasizes that 1540 stands as a “Black Swan” event—a worst-case climate scenario that demonstrates how a pre-industrial society could be brought to its knees entirely by weather alone.
From July: “Britain and Europe need to get serious
about air conditioning” https://archive.is/NIyTm