Since last Wednesday is causing a stir: the Declaration of the lung specialist doctor, Dieter Köhler, that the EU-defined limit of 40 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide per cubic meter of air was too high – and justified bans on driving in Germany is nonsensical. More than 100 Doctors have signed his petition paper now – no one wants to have treated a patient, who is ill of oxides of nitrogen in his road.
the Federal transport Minister, Andreas Scheuer (CSU) glad to hear this: he sees the time has come, the unloved threshold velvet driving bans to tackle. Other researchers and policy-makers are more sceptical – reason enough for a Anne Wants to round to convene.
Scheuer had no time for an evening Talk and sent Steffen Bilger (CDU), state Secretary in the Federal Ministry of transport. The expressed doubt as to the limit there for many years – just had never been in the Public discussion. Support he found in Judith Skudelny, the environmental policy spokeswoman for the FDP parliamentary group, that you would be averse to the limit only once a suspend, finally, the air is “as clean as never before”. That Germany would run thus applicable EU-law, Anna Lena Baerbock, Federal Chairman of the Green.
Suspend? Keep? To modify, such as by Amendment of the Federal emission law – what now? For a real education away from the policy-skirmish actually, the two scientists of the round should ensure: Dieter Köhler itself, as well as epidemiologist, Heinz-Erich Wichmann, who was involved in the drafting of the EU limit value.
Personal attacks
But of hard Numbers and facts to debate, not even a brake track. Wichmann indulged minutes to explain the essence of epidemiology; Köhler worked down the chattering of his academic merits extremely self-centered. Ugly also the moments in which the debate went completely Personal, and Köhler Wichmann under the authority of he have get in the elaboration of the limit value of research money from non-independent sources.
Wichmann returned the favor, among other things, in order to Köhler, is a “scientific exotics call” look, this is technically stuck in the nineties, hanging.
After all, a number of there were: Köhler, a limit value of 100 micro-grams would be sufficient – as in the United States. A prospect of the Green party politician Baerbock in rule the rights of Gasping offset the need, finally, to “children and Pregnant women” thinking, living along the most polluted roads or they passed.
Skudelny countered that with, so far, measuring stations equipped roads, “no quantities to Pregnant women” would run, but said measuring stations are actually topic. Germany, the most Controversial of these is currently at Stuttgart Neckartor directly at a traffic light, and measures, especially at the starting up of the cars top values. A Team from the Fraunhofer Institute, the measure 50 meters in addition, only half the value. “We are trying in polluted regions to measure the highest values,” said Skudelny.
the CDU-man Bilger goes even one step further: He claims that other EU countries should have simply no Problem with your air quality, because otherwise will be measured – what can not imagine Baerbock.
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conclusion of the Evening: a lot of hot air, which was sometimes dirty Limit.
