When the German Greens need an energy crisis bailout, suddenly warming is welcome.
Normally the climate alarmists are convinced that a warming planet can only be bad for us, no matter where or when. They complain that the summers are too hot and we no longer get cold and snowy winters like we used to. Mild winters, they say, are a climate disaster that will doom us! The warmth is only causing trouble for everything and there’s nothing good about it. We have to cool the planet back to 1960s temperature levels, they keep suggesting.
But now that Germany’s energy supply crisis is dangerously intensifying, Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) is desperately scrambling for ways to somehow get the country through the winter without the gas supply running out and millions of people freezing. One way is pleading for Germans to turn the heat in their homes way down in order not to deplete the gas supply before the cold weather ends next May. But that alone won’t be enough.
Now, ironically, Habeck is also hoping for a warmer winter to bail out the country from its energy crisis. A warm winter will mean burning less gas and help the country avoid untold misery. Alas – warming is rescue!
He said recently, in mid September:
“If everything goes well in terms of saving gas and we are lucky with the weather, then we have a chance of getting through the winter well.”
Here he of course means if the winter is warm – and not cold and snows like the winters they long to return to – we might get through it without freezing to death before spring finally arrives. Please, please, please let it be warm, Habeck and his greens are hoping now.
To deal with the looming winter energy crisis, most countries in Europe are aiming to save 15 percent. In Germany, however, the government is pushing for savings of 20 percent, and warm winters are welcome again.
I have been assured by an Eco-nut that, due to all that Russian methane released into the atmosphere from the NS pipelines, we can expect a warm winter in Gemany this year. I was called an old fool for suggesting otherwise.
Prayer and hope are not plans. Neither is “good Luck”, I do wish all you folks good luck.
A lot of people I’ve spoken to still don’t think the situation is that serious. Many say they have enough food at home for just a couple of days, and don’t believe at all a blackout could happen. I’d say less than half are taking the situation at least half seriously.
Personally I think the chances of a blackout occurring are less than one not occurring. But my wife and I are prepared for the worst and hoping for the best.
I’m going to speculate adventurously on part of what’s maybe going on: There’s a severe shortage of workers in Germany right now. One way to solve that problem would be to kill off a bunch of smaller, weaker companies in order to free up the workers who are employed there. A quick way to kill off many companies would be to subject them to massive inflation, another lockdown and then a blackout. It’d be messy, but over time the economy would reorganize itself (maybe). This of course would however be socially dangerous because uncontrolled unrest could result and lead to unintended terrible consequences. I’m hoping the government officials come to their senses.
“Bring me peace when there’s talk of war, when it’s hard to find. Bring me peace when there’s talk of war, peace is on my mind.” – The Womenfolk
Pride goeth before fall.
The Greens need to get back, go back home to where they belong.
Living in La-La Land is no place to be. Apostasy does work.
You have to learn to get along, always do business with them.
You can’t always not see eye-to-eye, that doesn’t work, obviously.
Anywhere west of the Urals is going to be Eurasian continental land mass.
There is plenty for everybody, no reason to be denied and deprived.
“Instant karma is going to get you.” – John Lennon
Beer time!
Ho hum, are we back to the theory of spreading soot on the snow to make it warmer?
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