Posted on 12/23/2022 9:53:52 AM PST by MtnClimber
As it turns out, not freezing to death and not murdering the economy is actually more important than meeting “climate goals.”
This is weird…. After “leading the way” for the climate communists, Germany now faces a freezing winter and ballooning energy crises — they’re at the precipice of an economic meltdown, so they’re bringing back their coal.
See what Bloomberg had to say:
Germany is set to boost its reliance on coal as it battles an unprecedented energy crisis — even at the expense of its ambitious climate goals.
…coal is making a comeback as countries seek to prevent soaring energy costs from triggering an economic meltdown. In Europe, the crisis is acute, after Russia curbed natural gas supplies in the fallout of its war in Ukraine.
(Oh how I’m relishing in President Trump’s ‘told ya so’ moment right now.)
Additionally, the article includes a quote from Carlos Fernandez Alvarez, who is the “acting head of gas, coal and power at the International Energy Agency.” A precursory scan of the website yields a consistent lexicon. You’ll see the words “sustainable” and “clean energy”, and some of their technologies include “carbon capture” and “methane abatement” — cull the cows and bring on the cricket food! (Obviously, the political agenda is one of climate communism.)
Per Alvarez:
Everyone is keeping their climate targets, but it’s true that when you face the dilemma to keep the lights on or decrease carbon emissions, the choice is to keep the lights on[.]
Two interesting points that arise from the above assertion:
First, Alvarez acknowledges that a transition away from gas and coal as a source of energy is at this moment, not achievable without forcing people to return to the Dark Ages. Ramrodding through policy to conform to “climate goals” results in “an unprecedented energy crisis”...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
but the MSM narrative is that Russia wants to expand and take over poor innocent Ukraine , so they cut off Russias voice on its side of the story in order to control the narrative ( not that it matters much anyway)
the globalists and US politicians will continue to loot and cheat and steal
Berlin_freezer Placemarker
FAKE NEWS - Germany doesn’t need coal, as the Neocon supporters INSISTED that Germany would quickly have the capability to access the (non-existent) excess LNG from Cutter, the US, and Algeria.
I guess the Neocons, once again, were LYING to us...
Anyway, glad Germans pay the price - they deserve it for their HORRIFIC actions regarding Minsk-2.
Merkel and her enablers should swing for forcing Germany on to the green path. They had functioning nukes that they closed causing them to have to buy electricity from France. Idiots.
Greta says, how do you like me now?
In recent geological history, we have been in a significant Ice Age Cycle. 100,000 years of cold, with periods of warmth lasting 10-15,000 years. We live such short lives, compared to the eons. People believe that the weather they experience in their lifetime is the ‘norm.’ It is easy to follow the globull climate wackos, to follow with feelings. Real scientists admit we don’t know all the factors, but most (who are not on the government payroll) understand that the Sun is the main driver of conditions on Earth. Back in the Little Ice Age 1300-1850 rudimentary telescopes noticed no sunspots on the surface of the Sun. We know that the Sun is hotter with more sunspots, and cooler with less.
I once read a fascinating theory about our solar system passing through areas of dust, and thus cooling the Earth. The Earth is not just spinning fast, and orbiting the Sun. The entire solar system is moving as part of spinning, spiral galaxy. There could be recurring clouds of dust we pass through.
Other theories, from real scientists, will come and go. In the end I remind people that not very long ago New York and Chicago were under a mile of ice. That cold and ice will return, and the only thing we can do is adapt.
As I have stated previously, I would love to be around in the middle of the next Ice Age, and watch the future Comedy Channel. The viewers will be having a great laugh watching AlGore and his minions saying “the Earth has a fever” while they shiver and guffaw.
I totally agree! We are in an interglacial warm period that is due to end soon. The global warmists would not want to live 20,000 years from now, freezing to death.
For the majority of us that can't translate that comment, it's "How dare you?
I cheated, I used Google Translate.
>>As it turns out, not freezing to death and not murdering the economy is actually more important than meeting “climate goals.”<<
You think the climate terrorists are waking up?
Don’t bet on it.
It only proves how Biden enriched our adversaries by destroying our energy industry. We lost, they won thanks to Benedict Biden.
Did they consult with the Swedish meatball first?
How dare they!!
Or Germany can retool their industry to accept clean US LNG as their main energy source.
Or Germany can retool their industry to US standards to accept clean US LNG as their main energy source.
Such a union would become the greatest symbiotic relationship in modern history.
We are not solving any problems by relishing our schadenfreude on Germany. It would be better to find out what Hunter’s computer contains in terms of Uke/Biden personal agreements.
They are already. They just opened the first of five LNG terminals to accept U.S. LNG ships.
It is assumed that CH4 causes climate change. Have these clowns calculated the amount of daily natural gas that constantly seeps unrestrained into the atmosphere from the immense methane hydrate fields located in the Atlantic and Pacific? There has been CH4 in the atmosphere accumulated over thousands of years. Rotting vegetation in our swamps is another source of CH4 that modern man cannot stop.
Sheesh folks, don’t make life miserable by denying yourself the blessings of nature.
It is crucial that Germany has the energy required to support its industry. Germany, through the 1960 Wirtschaftwunder, has attracted a large foreign labor force(mainly Turkish) In case of an industrial standstill, these laborers will become unemployed and the country can expect social unrest on a large scale. The Turkish Gastarbeiter will not return to Turkey because of a lack of employment and lower standard of living. Germany has always been the foremost European industrial nation and therefore has the highest energy requirement in all of Europe, bar none. Germany has no choice but to slip under the Federdecke mit Amerika. Perhaps a sexless union but still a union. Amerika must supply the LNG to keep the boilers at pressure and leftover gas can be distributed to remaining EU members. An advantage of such a setup will place Germany in a position that will prevent them to repeat the two misdeeds of the 20th century. Even little Macron can breathe easier. This union will be more precious than NATO or EU and guarantees a PAX Americana while putting Ivan in a double Nelson.
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