German Climate Physicist: Alternative Energy, Climate Are A “Religious Creed”…”Miles Away” From Openness

Yesterday approximately 15,000 coal miners turned out to protest the German government’s energy policy.

German Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel announced earlier he intended to levy a CO2 surcharge on older coal power plants with the aim of shutting them down.

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Prof. Dr. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke. Photo EIKE.

Before yesterday’s demonstration, German physicist and climate scientist and spokesman for the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), Prof. Dr. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, published a sharply-worded commentary here on the government’s anti-fossil fuel/nuclear power policy. As the introduction Lüdecke wrote:

Climate protection and the switch over to renewable energies were instilled in German citizens by state propaganda, green brainwashing and with the help of all of Germany’s mainstream media. The unconditional necessity to advance into alternative energies has become a religious creed. By historical and global comparison, such a thing happens the most easily here, time after time. The logic used by the politically interested parties every time appears to be infallible. [..]

The argument goes as follows: The rescue of the planet from a death by heat and the immediate shutdown of the irresponsible German nuclear power plants are essential. The question of whether this is really true is not be asked, let alone discussed.”

Lüdecke says, however, that public awareness over the madness of Germany’s energy policy is beginning to dawn and that he believes “now is the phase of sobering up, but unfortunately not yet one of reason.” Leading print media are beginning to soften their support for the so-called Energiewende as it now stands, he writes. As angry coal miners take to the street, and thousands of industrial jobs become threatened, it is becoming increasingly apparent something has gone awry.

Lüdecke thinks that the sobering-up process will take time because every political party has made green issues part of its platform. “Green is a very difficult color to wash away,” the German physicist writes.

Lüdecke then explains the primary disadvantage of renewable energy: their low energy density, i.e. meaning they require vast areas and that the major ones are weather-dependent. The German EIKE professor does not know how long the sobering-up process will take, citing the immense power of an array of lobbies behind the green movement.

Lüdecke also aims harsh words at Germany’s pompous and one-sided media:

Finally a word for the German media, here especially for the public TV and radio networks. They are rightly being compared by the current contemporaries to the conditions of former East Germany or even earlier times.”

At the political level, Lüdecke blasts the atmosphere of intimidation against people who have alternative views, who often are threatened with physical violence from radical leftists groups.

When it comes to openness, such as that proclaimed by French philosopher Voltaire, the German climatologist writes “in the dark media of Germany, we are miles away.”  He adds:

Factual discourse, connected with polite listening and taking the arguments from opponents seriously, is definitely not in fashion.”

Lüdecke describes Germany as a desert when it comes to independent reporting and expression of opinions.

 

8 responses to “German Climate Physicist: Alternative Energy, Climate Are A “Religious Creed”…”Miles Away” From Openness”

  1. DirkH

    “Finally a word for the German media, here especially for the public TV and radio networks. They are rightly being compared by the current contemporaries to the conditions of former East Germany or even earlier times.”

    Well I guess we have a consensus on that one.

    “Leading print media are beginning to soften their support for the so-called Energiewende as it now stands, he writes.”

    The leading print media are in their death throes. While the leftist ones, dominated by Bertelsmann (Spiegel and Stern), are holding out for the time being, Springer dominated right wing (Welt, FAZ) have catastrophic losses (FAZ -12% from 2014 to 2015), as the conservative readership refuses to buy social-democrat/green drivel from previously conservative organs. Springer is dying fast. The death on the left side will take longer as the leftists are very happy indeed with the windturbinization promoted by SPD and CDU; but some of them have been very pissed about Spiegel’s relentless war propaganda against Putin so all is not well in the leftist camp.

  2. John Shade

    I think the professor is a good and perceptive man.

  3. AndyG55

    CO2 IS GREEN !!!

    Its the Greenest gas in the world.

    It is one of the two main building blocks of all plant life on Earth.

    And its currently quite low.

    This is the real message that needs to be got across to people.

  4. patrick healy

    Slightly off this topic, but with a religious connection, especially for a fellow catholic like your good self Pierre, over at James Delingpole @briebart, a couple of great articles about the Vatican’s corruption on Mann Made Global Warming.
    A great open letter from the Cornwall institute worthy if study.

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