Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Whereas this aspect is much too shortchanged. Currently, every deviation from normal weather is attributed to climate change. But we are still miles away from 1.5 or 2 degrees. CO2 savings are not a free pass to rebuild everything in the Ahr Valley. We will have to adapt massively, even if, surprisingly, the whole world follows suit in reducing CO2.

Important and correct.
There are indeed scientists who do not think in extreme scenarios, but in plausible scenarios. This is a problem because plausibility considerations are not science in the methodological sense. Nevertheless, it is still useful, because the 1.5°C (almost certainly) and the 2°C target (very likely) will not be achieved. More plausible are rather 3.0°C. Since that is much better than 4°C, climate protection should still continue.
But a +3°C world is CLEARLY different than today – and hardly four generations away.

Where the aspect is barely considered. Currently, every deviation from normal weather is attributed to climate change. But we are still miles away from 1.5 or 2 degrees. CO2 reductions are not a free pass to rebuild everything in the Ahr valley. We will have to adapt massively, even if, surprisingly, the whole world joins in reducing CO2

Well ... according to current forecasts, the 1.5 degree target will be reached in the early 30s. That is very close. The world will not end overnight - but the trend is more than alarming. I think less about myself - I will not live to see 2100. But my daughter and potential grandchildren probably will ... And that makes you think about what you are doing to the planet with your consumption and sense of entitlement.

Oh yes… Gas currently 8.5 ct/kWh, electricity around 30 :p I refueled diesel today at 1.56/l For the OPEC announcement and the start of the Easter weekend, totally fine. I am very relaxed about it and am insulating the house bit by bit, driving the diesel until it won’t run anymore… in the name of sustainability. By the way, in the single-family house from 1978, where we insulated the roof with cavity insulation and replaced the windows, we will come to a gas consumption of around 10,000 kWh, including water and of course not at 27°C, but around 21. That seems to me like our car industry: the engines become more efficient, then you can put more HP under the hood and build cars as heavy as tanks. Somehow quite an ecological nonsense.

Btw: The companies are currently building huge WP factories…in POLAND! How is energy produced in Poland? Right…with coal! How does the worker heat? In a market economy, the environment ends sooner than you think!

Btw: The companies are currently building huge WP factories… in POLAND! How is energy produced in Poland? Right… with coal! How does the worker heat? With a market economy, the environment disappears faster than you think!

Well, somewhere we have to start, right? I’d rather have clean heating systems built in Poland using dirty energy than the alternative that dirty heating systems are built in Poland using dirty energy.

The aspect is just much too shortchanged. Currently, every deviation from normal weather is attributed to climate change. But we are still miles away from 1.5 or 2 degrees. CO2 savings are not a free pass to rebuild everything in the Ahr Valley. We will have to adapt massively, even if, surprisingly, the whole world follows suit in reducing CO2.

Miles away? The 1.5 degrees will be reached by 2030 at the latest.

Are you already 85, so you no longer have to care about this?