As Germans freeze,
leading newspaper calls
green energy strategy
‘a dangerous miscalculation’
American Thinker,
by
Dennis Sevakis
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
2/17/2021 6:14:33 AM
The very green Germans have major concerns regarding their dependence on renewables:
‘Die Welt’ Commentary: “Europe Can’t Bail Out The German Power Supply”…Calls Strategy “A Dangerous Miscalculation”
Germany has seriously overestimated how much its neighboring countries are able to help out in the event wind and solar energy fail to deliver, thus putting its power supply at risk. (snip) Little attention is paid to the question of just how much "climate change" is a result of human activity, i.e., CO2 emissions into the atmosphere resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. Does anyone have a handle on this?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/17/2021 6:43:16 AM (No. 698744)
May this be the fate of greenies everywhere.
19 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/17/2021 6:52:58 AM (No. 698751)
No Texans were available for comment - too busy chopping up furniture to feed their fireplaces - if they were lucky enough to have one.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sw penn 2/17/2021 7:33:17 AM (No. 698781)
Government by physics is better than
Government by ideology....
23 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/17/2021 7:57:46 AM (No. 698793)
It can't be that their computer models are wrong. All of the thermometers and people's sensitivity to hot and cold must have been damaged by climate change caused by humanity. Quick! consult with St. Greta.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/17/2021 8:04:19 AM (No. 698801)
I guess Texas made the same mistake Germany did.
It's a mistake that the Biden administration is in favor of.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/17/2021 8:11:41 AM (No. 698814)
Say what you will about our oldest friends - - The Frogs - - but they went all-out nuclear - - and they will never have to depend on Arab oil or Russian gas to keep bien chaud.
It just shows how phony the "greens" and "environmentalists" are - - when they reject nuclear - - the cleanest, most efficient, and safest form of energy.
17 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Clinger 2/17/2021 8:17:12 AM (No. 698826)
Don't you love it when the elites treat what we the smelly bitter clinger people have been saying all along that they just came to accept as if they discovered time travel?
#6, Aparently the "China Syndrome" was never translated into French.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/17/2021 8:54:16 AM (No. 698890)
The Elites are nice and toasty, you can be sure.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/17/2021 9:02:22 AM (No. 698902)
File this under No Shiite Sherlock!
5 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/17/2021 9:07:48 AM (No. 698908)
One more thing...a week or so ago there was a report from some envirowackos that, due to covid and fewer people commuting to work in their cars, there are fewer emissions in the air so more sunlight is getting through and the planet is warming. By issuing that statement they just proved that fossil fuels are not causing globull warming and that it is caused by (surprise, surprise) the sun! And they are so wrapped up in their ideology that they don’t realize they just contradicted everything they’ve been spewing at us for the last 40 years.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 2/17/2021 9:43:09 AM (No. 698955)
Texas made the same mistake that Georgia did...they elected RINO repubs for years, who then kowtowed to the PC mob and did their bidding.
Regarding climate models, the world has been gradually warming since the end of the last ice age (approx 14,000 years ago), probably due to Milankovich cycles, sunspot cycles, or some other unidentified planetary or astrophysical phenoms (shifts in Earth's mantle or currents of magma underneath it? shifts in planetary poles?). Until the climate models can history-match that warming, and the dozens (even hundreds or thousands) of ice ages that preceded it, they are worthless, and only predict what their authors tell them to predict.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 2/17/2021 10:21:24 AM (No. 699002)
Now I don't want to be misunderstood here; however, aside from a winter like this one of 2021 I really wouldn't mind eight or ten degrees of global warming. Longer growing seasons would mean better truck gardens and crops. Longer summers would suit me just fine. I will never complain about lower heating costs.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 10:46:02 AM (No. 699039)
"Green energy" means freezing in the dark.
Count on it, as the sunspot numbers continue to decrease, and the climate gets steadily colder over time.
Coal is 100% reliable, works at night, and on cloudy days and on the coldest days. Coal is the future of reliable energy.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 10:52:17 AM (No. 699047)
FTA:
"The degree of warming in the tropical troposphere resulting from an increase of CO2 is the central premise behind the climate change hoopla. The fact that such warming is not occurring to the degree predicted by the climate models is not an 'isolated fact,' it is a very strong indication that there is a real disconnect between theory and reality. The linchpin is weak or missing."
And the quote from Richard Feynman is excellent, too. He got his Nobel prize back when they actually meant something. He was noted for his work in quantum mechanics. A very intelligent man.
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
– Physicist Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate.
MMGW is a fraud.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 11:00:56 AM (No. 699061)
#6, the French have been planning closing down a significant portion of their nuclear power plants for some time. They were talking about shutting down perfectly good nuke plants some time ago, and planning for it. They HAD done the only breeder reactor system in the world, whereby a reactor actually creates more nuclear fuel than it uses (sounds impossible, but it isn't in nuclear power), but after struggling with it for years, finally gave up and shut down the breeder reactor, and all the fuel separation systems, too.
They currently get 70% of their power from nuclear plants, and their national assembly has voted to reduce this to 50% by 2025. That has been delayed for 10 years, it appears.
Nuclear power is a great way to go if you have some sort of an irrational fear of harmless carbon dioxide. But, if you recognize that carbon dioxide is good for plants and we use plants for food, coal is a wonderful power source.
2 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 2/17/2021 11:35:17 AM (No. 699114)
This is what happens when your ideology runs over your dogma.
4 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/17/2021 1:14:32 PM (No. 699304)
Yep if the Greenie stuff don't work we freeze to death...sounds like they planned this doesn't it??
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/17/2021 2:07:09 PM (No. 699421)
So called green energy is no mistake for the invested. Do you think they will freeze their asses off or take high-speed-rail anywhere?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
OhioNick 2/17/2021 2:28:25 PM (No. 699451)
The article fails to mention that Germany's decision to "go green" has caused a dramatic rise in electricity prices and has hurt businesses.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 5:23:01 PM (No. 699667)
Oh, DAMN! Winter happened again!
What will we do????
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/17/2021 7:42:04 PM (No. 699786)
Just wondering how many Germans are overcome with CO poisoning running their BMWs, Opels and Mercedes-Benzes in their garages...
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