Germany’s Greens cautious over linking floods to climate crisis

Party leaders hope public will draw its own conclusions from last week’s catastrophic floodsIt was a slogan that cut to the chase: “Everybody is talking about Germany. We talk about the weather.”The provocative message – itself an inversion of the title of an essay by Red Army Faction terror group founder Ulrike Meinhof (“Everybody talks about the weather. We don’t”) – was at the heart of the West German Green party’s 1990 election campaign,