Gripped by Energy Crisis, Europe Considers Breaking Climate Promises and Turning to Coal
"In Europe reality has now finally caught up with ideology since climate policy has been formulated primarily by NGOs and young climate activists but not the hard scientific evidence," Schoellhammer told Newsweek.
"This becomes particularly obvious in the case of nuclear energy, which in many respects would be a climate-friendly way of producing energy, but it is ideological concerns that caused the abandonment of nuclear energy, for example in Germany by 2022, and at the moment a U-turn seems unlikely."
"All of this causes severe energy shortages – Sweden had to power up two oil-based power plants that burn 140,000 liters of oil per hour, while having simultaneously shut down six out of its 12 nuclear power plants."
"Politically for the moment, it seems that a return to coal is more 'sellable' than a return to nuclear, because exiting the latter has been promoted as an enormous success that it never was," Schoellhammer went on.
This is where we are headed. The progressives in this country do not want to look at reality, they want to push fossil fuels out before we can afford to replace them. Gather your firewood while you can, it's going to be an expensive winter.
If you have an opinion about this SC, I'd love to hear your take.
Expect more nations will fail their Paris Climate Pledges. Time to build more next generation nuclear plants. Cheaper and safer, and more dependable than wind and solar.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
