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Europe Retreats from Climate Change During
International Energy Agency Global Meeting

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Posted By: earlybird, 2/21/2026 12:18:37 PM

According to the Washington DC spin, the various EU energy ministers changed clean energy justification of ‘climate change’ during the International Energy Agency (IEA) summit because they were concerned the U.S. would pull out of the IEA group. The IEA shifted to green energy as a security priority, no longer concerned with climate change.However, given the situation with European energy costs and the severe problems they are having within their collective and individual economies, what they consider “national security” appears to be their need to control public outrage at the green energy consequences. Affordable or ‘cheap’ energy production is directly linked to the underlying economy.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 2/21/2026 12:25:27 PM (No. 2071494)
What, wait....does this mean that the Magical Energy System doesn't WORK? OH, no! How could such a thing happen. "Wind energy is the Future" and "Solar will power the way" and "The tides can make us energy independent" were all such compelling narratives. Everyone was so convinced. Until the power stopped reaching the outlets in Spain and the bills in the rest of Europe became so high that industries started shutting down and moving away, or just disappearing because the economics just didn't work any more with ultra expensive electricity. We told you so. You wouldn't listen. Now, go back and power up those nuke plants and those coal plants and stop playing your foolish "green" games. They don't work.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: MickTurn 2/21/2026 12:29:54 PM (No. 2071496)
The spankings we give the EU just aren't making them behave better. This is likely a Wag The Dog moment. Maybe Severe convincing with a rubber hose will do the trick!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: seamusm 2/21/2026 12:45:09 PM (No. 2071509)
What the EU has done to itself with Green idiocy has destroyed its manufacturing base and made everything too expensive even if available. Add to it the unfettered import of Islamic people who for a millennium have been intrinsically at odds with European culture and Judeo-Christian fundamental ethics. It might have been possible to survive but for the 'minor' problem that white people don't have children anymore. By the end of this century white people in Europe will be a minority.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 2/21/2026 1:44:19 PM (No. 2071531)
If Europe wants to continue to be energy morons, they can reap the consequences. The US had been picking up their deficits, often due to their energy policies, and that's where a good chunk of our $39 TRILLION deficit came from. That door has been significantly closed by Trump. Now as their costs rise to support their being imbeciles, they will foot the bill. That reality is finally penetrating their Socialist thinking. The great thing is, all the green games they have been playing are going to implode. All their "science" is going to evaporate. And once it has, the carefully built platform they used to attack America is going to be GONE and it is not something that will be able to be rebuilt any time soon. It took 55 years, from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 1970, to 2025 to build the framework for overriding control of the government for environmental purposes. Trump upended all of that last year. Once the dust settles, it is going to be all excised, like a cancerous tumor. Further, it will be very hard to reinitiate such a malevolent policy since people will be aware of what has been done. They got the camel into the tent with clean air, clean water, and clean ground, which everyone is generally in favor of. Then they corrupted the intent by adding on absurd extensions, sometimes claiming harm from things that we can't even measure accurately, and finally culminating with climate change that is a complete fraud and absurdly declaring it an existential threat. Europe has to face the reality that they are facing economic catastrophe AND that the foundations of the bridge to the future they have built has completely collapsed. Reagan's quote is especially poignant, "It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.".
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Venturer 2/21/2026 3:38:39 PM (No. 2071547)
Green energy may indeed come in it's time. When the technology is much-much more advanced. It really isn't a bad idea, but trying to force it when the technology was not ready certainly was. In fact trying to force it probably actually set back it's progress, and cost $ Billions of dollars, wasted dollars that could have gone to more worthy endeavors. The climate scientists screwed the pooch big time , and the left ate it like candy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 2/21/2026 4:06:42 PM (No. 2071554)
How DARE they? Now we're all gonna DIE!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JHHolliday 2/21/2026 7:54:30 PM (No. 2071583)
Well said, #5. One day in the future, a source of 'clean and green' power will be found if government gets out of the way instead of trying to force some ideological dream on us before its time. That future may be 10-20 or 50 years from now but it will happen unless we are all living under the medieval Sharia Law like Mamdani, the Mullahs and their friends desire.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Strike3 2/22/2026 7:01:17 AM (No. 2071660)
"Europe retreats." Such a familiar phrase.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Msquared112 2/22/2026 7:13:00 AM (No. 2071670)
Nuclear power is the only good way. For now. It's clean and inexpensive once it comes on board. We need MORE nuclear energy production.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: NotaBene 2/22/2026 12:54:24 PM (No. 2071870)
The Marshall Plan party is over. Now our protectorate has to buy LNG from US. I wonder what happened to all that coal in Newcastle and the Ruhr valley.
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