Text tabled : B7-0571/2011

  Andreas Mölzer (NI), in writing. − (DE) In the last 100 years, the mean air temperature at ground level has increased by around 0.74 °C. We know this because temperature measurements have been taken for at least 100 years. Over the last 15 years, the more or less scientific doctrine that the recorded increase in temperature is caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions has prevailed. European leaders follow this dogma blindly and want the EU Member States, at the world climate conference that will take place in Durban in 2012, to commit to making European industry and the European economy significantly more low-carbon. However, the fact is that there is absolutely no proof that climate change is anthropogenic in nature. It is also a fact that our climate has been subject to continual oscillations of varying magnitudes since time immemorial. The figures and values put forward by the European leadership team are quite simply theories, which have, however, been declared to be the ultimate reality. This is also the reason why the numerous scientists who hold a different opinion and those people who are critical of this, both in politics and also in the current media landscape, barely get a look in any more or are made out to be disreputable. It should be noted that, for the Eurocrats, this is not about important measures to protect the environment, but about deliberate, profit-making scaremongering. For this reason, I have declined to give this motion my support.