News Digest Item
27 Jan 2017

Regional AfD politician calls climate change “fiction”

NDR

Climate change is just “fiction” and the Energiewende is a “global socialist redistribution action“, said Ralf Borschke of the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a session of the state parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, reports Stefan Ludmann for public broadcaster NDR. Environment protection has nothing to do with climate policy, said Borschke according to NDR. Parliamentarians from other parties vehemently objected and called for a fact-based discussion.

Read the article in German here.

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