After Taking Fossil Fueled Flight, German Chancellor Says “We are at a crossroads”

Nothing says climate doom from fossil fuels like 40,000 cultists taking long, fossil fueled trips

World at a crossroads to stop climate change, Germany’s Merz says

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday urged wealthy industrialized nations to increase their contributions to the global fight against climate change.

“We are at a crossroads,” Merz told an international climate summit in Brazil. “All countries with the economic resources and high emissions—and we are among them—should contribute to international climate finance,” he said.

The German leader noted that his government allocated more than €6 billion ($7 billion) for climate action last year. He also announced Germany’s support for the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) proposed by Brazil.

“We will contribute significantly to this initiative’s success,” he told participants at the Belem Climate Summit. “To achieve our climate goals, the tropical forest must be preserved while more private sector funding is mobilized. This can only succeed together with our partners in the Global South and North,” he said.

Would this be the same Amazon cut down to create a road to move people from the airport to the conference site? All these prognostications of doom would be better if the people who tell us there’s a problem acted like there’s a problem and practiced what they preached.

Let’s tax luxury air travel to fund climate adaptation and loss and damage

Developing countries are set to need hundreds of billions of dollars a year to adapt to climate change but, at the moment, developed countries are providing them with just tens of billions of dollars.

One solution to this ‘adaptation gap’ is a levy on premium flyers—covering business class, first class, and private jet travel. This represents one of the fairest and most politically feasible ways to mobilize new public finance for adaptation and loss and damage.

This would be a ‘polluter-pays’ approach, as business and first-class travel are 3-4 times more polluting than economy flights and private jets travel is up to 14 times more polluting.

I like this, and we’ll start taxing private jets, especially those flown by politicians and Warmists.