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Mayor Waits for Instructions from Above – No Initiative for Lower District Heating Prices in the Interest of CitizensThe Finance Committee of the City of Hohenmölsen met on May 11, 2026. I used the opportunity during the public question session to ask a question regarding the changed assessment of climate change panic. Hohenmölsen, as the “secret capital of the mining district,” is affected in multiple ways. On the one hand, lignite mining had provided jobs for many decades. The city’s growth only really began in the 19th century when coal mining started. According to Wikipedia, only around 300 people lived in Hohenmölsen in 1680. By 1890, the population had already risen to over 2,800. Hohenmölsen reached its highest population in 2010 with 10,567 inhabitants. This was likely also due to the relocation of people from villages that fell victim to lignite mining. In addition, several incorporations took place. Since then, the trend has been downward. For 2024, Wikipedia lists only 9,211 inhabitants. IPCC Classified Horror Forecast as UnrealisticLast week, reports circulated that the IPCC had dismissed the worst climate change doomsday scenario as unrealistic. It was also reported that 46 IPCC scientists had rebelled because the politically coordinated summaries for policymakers allegedly distort the full reports, conceal uncertainties, and systematically downplay natural factors such as solar activity, cosmic radiation, and ocean cycles.The taxation of air and the relentless political drive to make Germany — and Europe as well — CO2-neutral by 2045 or 2050 were based on horror scenarios that are criticized not only by IPCC scientists. For a city directly affected in two ways — first by the end of lignite mining and second by the conversion of district heating, which is driving heating costs upward — this should actually be of significance. Lignite in the region could continue to be mined well beyond 2050 if there were political will to do so. The question, therefore, is whether regional politicians — above all the mayor — would feel compelled to influence state, federal, and EU-level politics in the interests of citizens so that the phase-out of lignite is abandoned and this energy source continues to be mined and used. Especially in the current situation, where politicians no longer want Russian gas and oil and tensions regarding Iran continue, domestic energy sources should actually be preferred — provided people can be freed from their CO2 fears. But Mayor Andy Haugk obviously sees things differently. He believes that my question should instead be forwarded to the mining company. However, he immediately pointed out that the mining company must operate within the framework of current legislation. Yet my question was aimed precisely at whether regional politicians would influence those political circles at higher levels so that the legal framework could be changed. Mayor Andy Haugk apparently cannot imagine a reversal of the current trend. However, he stated that he would react if such a reversal were to occur. So he waits for directives from above instead of democratically trying to influence higher-level politics from below. Thus, he apparently sees himself merely as an administrator rather than a policymaker. On the other hand, he views the continued generation of electricity from lignite positively because it helps “when power generation takes place.” However, it is precisely the political framework conditions that prevent electricity generation — and thus the use of waste heat for district heating — from functioning as it did in the past. City council member Jan Förster (CDU) contributed his own view. He stated that my representations were false. He claimed that the IPCC no longer assumes the worst-case scenario because less coal is being used for electricity generation. However, his statement may itself amount to disinformation. A brief internet search reveals reports and information stating that fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise. Germany’s Tagesschau also reported as recently as November 2025 that global CO2 emissions continued to increase in 2025. A chart on Statista likewise illustrates the rise in CO2 emissions. No weakening trend is visible. Another chart concerning global energy demand on Wikipedia also does not lead me to conclude that coal-fired electricity generation is declining. Statista additionally reports what China has installed in terms of new coal-fired power plants. In 2025 alone, this amounted to 80 new coal power plants. Consequently, the end of coal-fired power generation in Hohenmölsen or Germany will have no impact whatsoever on global CO2 emissions or even on the climate. That is unlikely to have been the reason why the IPCC declared its forecast improbable. It is more likely that criticism regarding the claim that man-made CO2 drives climate change can no longer be sustained. Many doomsday predictions have failed to materialize so far. The formerly critical threshold of 1.5 degrees was already exceeded two years ago. Yet the apocalypse never arrived. Jan Förster also expressed the view that the IPCC’s forecast of a three-degree warming by the year 2100 would come true. But if one thinks about it, the question arises as to why this forecast should prove accurate when other forecasts were or are not sustainable. Predictions obviously remain difficult — especially when they concern the future. In any case, the conclusion from my question is this: the mayor obviously sees himself as an administrator operating within the framework of directives handed down from above. Accordingly, he apparently has no desire to influence those directives so that they are changed for the better. If politicians do not alter the framework conditions on their own initiative, things will simply continue as before — regardless of “new scientific findings.” According to an article in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung from a few weeks ago, Mayor Haugk did not know where future district heating prices would head. He also does not know where the gas that is to be burned in the new heating plant for district heating will come from. Green hydrogen is likely ruled out because it is too expensive. EU policy does not want Russian natural gas. That leaves only seaborne imports of natural gas, for example from the United States or the Persian Gulf, since Norway can hardly expand its capacities. Whether this is actually better for the climate can be doubted — assuming one still believes the narrative of CO2-caused climate change. Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm | |
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