Thread by @anlomedad

Found another factor of why it all went so wrong:
Ofc, Merkel's adherence to neoclassic and her hesitant personality.
AND false trust in her physics PhD not only indoctrinated newly elected intl. politicians: "Tech will solve climate, no worries", it also befuddled Schellnhuber!

(In the interview snippet from @DIEZEIT Schellnhuber speaks of a few instances when he got quality time with Merkel and they studied graphs and calculations. He describes her physics PhD as overall very beneficial, something akin to a god-sent gift to mankind)

Precisely bc of Merkel's PhD in physics and her interest in some slides, he thought, she was the right person in the right position.

She wasn't.

If a leader apparently sees urgency but moans they can't act, mimimi,
you better go and warn the public: this leader is incapable.

Her own choice of personnel, eg the delayer and denier Altmaier as chief of her chancellor's office, also Minister for the Environment, and now as Minister for Economy and Research was proof enough of her personal unwillingness to #FaceTheClimateEmergency – despite of her PhD.

She let her Minister of the Interior vote against DublinIII in 2013 in EU Council. She'd have had the chancellor's competence to put her foot down. But she chose not to. And continues to support fascists refugee politics on her watch, ever tightening national and EU asylum rules.

Enough proof over her 15yrs for unwillingness and incapability to #FaceTheClimateEmergency Her PhD was not advantageous.

She has no political vision but decadence. Her style is of a sly hesitant bureaucrat which caused several crises –for whose "management"she is then praised 🙄

Merkel's interest in Schellnhuber's slides was disconnected from her reality –but stroked his professional pride? Anyway he was blind to her personality being incompatible to the task.

But he could've warned the public each time chancellor Dr Merkel said: "I can't do anything!"