A story already related a while back on Doomberg's substack: in about 2005, through an odd circumstance, I (a complete nonentity, let's be clear) was at a dinner party in London's Belgravia, in conversation with a fascinating and charming man man-of-the-world who introduced himself as "a neighbour from across the square", who turned out to be the German ambassador to the UK. I asked him whether he thought the Russians would use energy as a political weapon (which I regarded as a no-brainer), to which he replied "no". To my intense frustration ever since, we got parted and I never got to ask him why he thought so. I note that his boss, then Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, made money from Russian energy, being on the board of Nord Stream AG and Rosneft. I reckon the final score was Nonentity 1: Ambassador 0. Funny old world.
Germany trail blazes 'net zero' and Russophobia with the resultant effect on its economy.
But far worse is the UK who could see this happening in real time in Germany, and decided to double down in its efforts to go even further into the pit. Not that it had nearly as much manufacturing or heavy energy users to loose, but its now doing its best to finish off what was left.
Your apt description of the Germans, “ insufferably smug about how right you were along the way” (perfectly demonstrated by the Germans who laughed at Trump when he told them they would be become totally dependent on Russia for natural gas), fits oh, so perfectly, to the climate fascists. Oh, wait, the German government is largely led by climate fascists. Go figure 🤨😂
Let us not get too smug about our position here in the U.S. The Climate Fascists passed legislation in Michigan that mandates our grid be run on 100% renewable energy (mainly wind and solar) by 2040. The EBBs audited this legislation and warn of sky-high power rates and blackouts on the horizon. We are following Germany's path to ruin.
Who is serving the demand for steel as Germany steps out of the market? I hope someone is competing with China. In the high pressure steel pipe market, Chinese made pipe was always considered suspect. If you work around those pipes you are literally betting your life on that quality .
I don't get why so many rational thinkers such as "the Energy Bad Boys" write about the destruction of the world economies caused by environmental policies. That's the success of environmental policies, they work, they terrific for that. People being impoverished is another success. When will the morality of environmentalism, not only the logistics, take it's place in the importance of proving just how deadly the environmental movement is.
Germans need to stop reliving the Pied Piper of Hamelin trope, i.e. vote the rats into office, then you have rat problems, but it's tough to vote them out. Viel Glück Deutschland
We all hate politics, but here is an aside that everyone should ponder because these things are always in play. This is Mike Benz and he has credibility(@MikeBenzCyber) and is worth the 12 minute overview:
I mean yeah, oil has to flow. but we should be encouraging domestic producers instead of feeding the war pigs. but I don't know much tbh, just off the cuff view
The Greens in Germany are the quintessential Neoliberals. They are the pro-War party, pro-censorship, anti-free speech, pro-enforced poverty, pro-overregulation, pro-lockdown, pro-draconian Covid policy, pro-vaccine mandates, anti-Russia. They seem to be trying to start WW3 with their anti-Russia rhetoric.
The Green movement is about entrenching a Nazi style fascist Totalitarian eco-state. A movement that has been hijacked and embraced by the Malthusian Club-of-Rome Bankster Overlords. Where do you think Greenpeace Int'l, based in Germany, gets its incredible $400M/yr from?
In actual fact, the Green movement in Germany is an Ecofascist movement that began with Nazis in WW2 Germany and after the war Nazism morphed into Ecofascism.:
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong, founder of UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program)
All Ecofascists see Nuclear power as their archenemy. Because Nuclear power can easily power our civilization, with a high energy consumption and a high standard of living for essentially forever, with negligible environmental harm. At least for 100 Myrs with Earth resources. That destroys the scarcity, "Limits of Growth" dogma of the Club-of-Rome Malthusian Psychopaths. They just can't allow that.
Seems curious to me all these efforts by Ukraine to attack Nuclear Power plants. And it was admitted by captured Ukrainian soldiers that the primary goal of the Kursk incursion was to attack the Kursk NPPs, which are still of the Chernobyl variety, 2 of RMBK-1000s, without a containment building. Trying to discredit Nuclear power by deliberately creating another Chernobyl X2?
Eco-fascism: “… A totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the “land”, understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states”.
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience, Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier
Fascist Ecology: The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents, by Peter Staudenmaier:
"...World Wildlife Fund (WWF) president Philip Mountbatten who stated in a 1981 interview with People magazine: “Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed—not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they’ll do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily.”..."
The Ecofascist agenda exists because it has been foisted upon us by the Globalist Central Bank Club-of-Rome Malthusian Parasite Psychopaths. Malthusianism has always been used by the welfare bum Banksters as a way to justify their extraordinary wealth & power. "Its for the good of the Environment".
Davos has been instigating this ecofascism Worldwide and milking Climate Change as the best invented crisis ever to justify their vision of a World Totalitarian Neo-feudal State in which us lowly serfs live in forced poverty, even subject to a population reduction genocide. While this ruling class lives in the lap of luxury, exempt from even the rule of law.
Germany and its businesses should have known that investing in gas was very dangerous for the environment and that it causes climate change .
After all their Green Party had been very strong and still is there . And their education system there is better than ours .
But instead of investing in solar and wind more then they did . They kept going with what most educated people in Germany knew was wrong . That is till problems with Ukraine happened .
Then they seemed to get it . But unfortunately the greens made some bad political and policy mistakes.
But to get to the point, it’s clear you work for the oil and gas industries. And not for the befit of this plant nor the people who live here . Profits are your only motive , and it’s obvious or you would be making plans to work with not against alternative forms of energy to help us all.
We know who you are . And as climate change continues to wreak its terrible havoc on us . We know who to hold accountable!!!
You and your greenie buddies are to be held accountable for blockading Nuclear power in the 1970s. The US was completing one NPP per month by 1974, with two on order per month, at that rate the US would have been 100% clean electricity supply by the early 1990's. You greenies stopped that. And ensured that China wouldn't go the same route, it would be building dozens of NPP's per year now, instead of dozens of Coal power plants, as it is.
Climate change is not "wreaking terrible havoc" on anyone (except perhaps some politicians). Arguably, climate change has been beneficial to date and will likely continue to be. The current "alternative forms of energy" are intermittent, unreliable and expensive. Fossil fuels and nuclear currently "fill in the blanks" during periods of low/no renewable generation. In a Net Zero world, fossil fuels go away to be replaced by DEFRs and/or storage. Storage produces nothing and requires additional intermittent renewables to assure adequate and timely recharging. Independent DEFRs (nuclear & hydro) adequate to "fill in the blanks" render intermittent renewables redundant. Redundancy costs.
If you know more then every collage and university climatology department.
And you know more then NOAA our governments top climate experts. And the IPPPC the United Nations top climate experts. ( many of whom volunteer their time , they don’t get paid by some solar companies, as nutty right wing groups try and tell you . )
Then I suggest you go and explain to them what you know , that they don’t .
The IPCC scientists participating in WG1 present a far more restrained assessment of climate change than the politically-generated Summary for Policymakers.
I do not claim to know wore than anybody, but I know what I know.
You certainly are welcome to provide a detailed critique of what I have written here.
There’s not one person on earth who hasn’t in some way be affected by climate change.
From the price of food , to slowing the supply chains like the Panama Canal . ( because you likely didn’t read about it . There’s no water to fill the canal as it used to)
To health . I know people who got sick here in Vt. from smoke from California fires .
And the cost from two floods happening at the exact same time a year apart ,was in the millions of dollars the Fed. and my state has paid .
If your so into the science of how nuclear power works , is there some reason you can’t follow the science of climatologists who can’t find one place on earth they can’t measure the higher temperatures we have now ?
The price of food is not up because of climate change. Production is up because of CO2-induced global greening. Prices are up because of government-induced inflation.
California and Canadian fires were not caused by climate change. Most were either accidentally or purposely caused by humans.
Two floods in a row are weather events not climate change. 30 in a row would be climate change. Flood damage costs increase because more infrastructure is build in areas subject to flooding and storm drainage systems are not expanded.
There are several places on earth where climatologists do not measure temperatures, but rather estimate them. Much of the measured warming is the result of UHI and poorly sited measuring stations, plus a little "delicate factory adjustment".
Thank you EBBs. An article on Europe's energy can be read here, as I reported on Irina Slav's substack: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-energy-bills-germany-brussels-pipeline-prices/ It seems as though the approach to the downward plunge of the vehicle that is Europe's energy is to step on the gas.
A story already related a while back on Doomberg's substack: in about 2005, through an odd circumstance, I (a complete nonentity, let's be clear) was at a dinner party in London's Belgravia, in conversation with a fascinating and charming man man-of-the-world who introduced himself as "a neighbour from across the square", who turned out to be the German ambassador to the UK. I asked him whether he thought the Russians would use energy as a political weapon (which I regarded as a no-brainer), to which he replied "no". To my intense frustration ever since, we got parted and I never got to ask him why he thought so. I note that his boss, then Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, made money from Russian energy, being on the board of Nord Stream AG and Rosneft. I reckon the final score was Nonentity 1: Ambassador 0. Funny old world.
Germany trail blazes 'net zero' and Russophobia with the resultant effect on its economy.
But far worse is the UK who could see this happening in real time in Germany, and decided to double down in its efforts to go even further into the pit. Not that it had nearly as much manufacturing or heavy energy users to loose, but its now doing its best to finish off what was left.
The UK has already lost most of its heavy industry.
Your apt description of the Germans, “ insufferably smug about how right you were along the way” (perfectly demonstrated by the Germans who laughed at Trump when he told them they would be become totally dependent on Russia for natural gas), fits oh, so perfectly, to the climate fascists. Oh, wait, the German government is largely led by climate fascists. Go figure 🤨😂
Let us not get too smug about our position here in the U.S. The Climate Fascists passed legislation in Michigan that mandates our grid be run on 100% renewable energy (mainly wind and solar) by 2040. The EBBs audited this legislation and warn of sky-high power rates and blackouts on the horizon. We are following Germany's path to ruin.
...and might accelerate our "progress" along this path after our elections.
You can’t fix stupid
The Germans seem to be the smartest dumb people in the world.
To update an old joke, communism/green energy transition is such garbage that even the Germans cannot make it work.
Who is serving the demand for steel as Germany steps out of the market? I hope someone is competing with China. In the high pressure steel pipe market, Chinese made pipe was always considered suspect. If you work around those pipes you are literally betting your life on that quality .
Not sure but it’s probably China
I don't get why so many rational thinkers such as "the Energy Bad Boys" write about the destruction of the world economies caused by environmental policies. That's the success of environmental policies, they work, they terrific for that. People being impoverished is another success. When will the morality of environmentalism, not only the logistics, take it's place in the importance of proving just how deadly the environmental movement is.
Germans need to stop reliving the Pied Piper of Hamelin trope, i.e. vote the rats into office, then you have rat problems, but it's tough to vote them out. Viel Glück Deutschland
Great work, gents!
We all hate politics, but here is an aside that everyone should ponder because these things are always in play. This is Mike Benz and he has credibility(@MikeBenzCyber) and is worth the 12 minute overview:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1699985908395606426.html
There are reasons we pushed war in Ukraine. We.
I mean yeah, oil has to flow. but we should be encouraging domestic producers instead of feeding the war pigs. but I don't know much tbh, just off the cuff view
The Greens in Germany are the quintessential Neoliberals. They are the pro-War party, pro-censorship, anti-free speech, pro-enforced poverty, pro-overregulation, pro-lockdown, pro-draconian Covid policy, pro-vaccine mandates, anti-Russia. They seem to be trying to start WW3 with their anti-Russia rhetoric.
The Green movement is about entrenching a Nazi style fascist Totalitarian eco-state. A movement that has been hijacked and embraced by the Malthusian Club-of-Rome Bankster Overlords. Where do you think Greenpeace Int'l, based in Germany, gets its incredible $400M/yr from?
In actual fact, the Green movement in Germany is an Ecofascist movement that began with Nazis in WW2 Germany and after the war Nazism morphed into Ecofascism.:
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong, founder of UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program)
All Ecofascists see Nuclear power as their archenemy. Because Nuclear power can easily power our civilization, with a high energy consumption and a high standard of living for essentially forever, with negligible environmental harm. At least for 100 Myrs with Earth resources. That destroys the scarcity, "Limits of Growth" dogma of the Club-of-Rome Malthusian Psychopaths. They just can't allow that.
Seems curious to me all these efforts by Ukraine to attack Nuclear Power plants. And it was admitted by captured Ukrainian soldiers that the primary goal of the Kursk incursion was to attack the Kursk NPPs, which are still of the Chernobyl variety, 2 of RMBK-1000s, without a containment building. Trying to discredit Nuclear power by deliberately creating another Chernobyl X2?
Eco-fascism: “… A totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the “land”, understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states”.
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience, Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier
Fascist Ecology: The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents, by Peter Staudenmaier:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/janet-biehl-and-peter-staudenmaier-ecofascism-lessons-from-the-german-experience
Dark Green II: Roots of Eco-Fascism:
https://infrakshun.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/dark-green-ii-eco-fascism/
William Kay on Ecofascism and Nazi Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ut0ZKgg_20
The Roots Of Modern Eco-Terrorism: From MK Ultra And The Unabomber To Maurice Strong And Yuval Harari, Matthew Ehret:
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-roots-of-modern-eco-terrorism
"...World Wildlife Fund (WWF) president Philip Mountbatten who stated in a 1981 interview with People magazine: “Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed—not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they’ll do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily.”..."
William Kay on Ecofascism and Landlordism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVhTlQJYOu8
The Ecofascist agenda exists because it has been foisted upon us by the Globalist Central Bank Club-of-Rome Malthusian Parasite Psychopaths. Malthusianism has always been used by the welfare bum Banksters as a way to justify their extraordinary wealth & power. "Its for the good of the Environment".
Davos has been instigating this ecofascism Worldwide and milking Climate Change as the best invented crisis ever to justify their vision of a World Totalitarian Neo-feudal State in which us lowly serfs live in forced poverty, even subject to a population reduction genocide. While this ruling class lives in the lap of luxury, exempt from even the rule of law.
Great article, comprehensive.
If I lived in Germany and could not leave, I would become a prepper.
Great piece. Thank you!
Great title.
GERMany
Germany and its businesses should have known that investing in gas was very dangerous for the environment and that it causes climate change .
After all their Green Party had been very strong and still is there . And their education system there is better than ours .
But instead of investing in solar and wind more then they did . They kept going with what most educated people in Germany knew was wrong . That is till problems with Ukraine happened .
Then they seemed to get it . But unfortunately the greens made some bad political and policy mistakes.
But to get to the point, it’s clear you work for the oil and gas industries. And not for the befit of this plant nor the people who live here . Profits are your only motive , and it’s obvious or you would be making plans to work with not against alternative forms of energy to help us all.
We know who you are . And as climate change continues to wreak its terrible havoc on us . We know who to hold accountable!!!
Hi Thaddeus, Energy Bad Boys is a reader supported publication. Thank you for being a founding member!
You and your greenie buddies are to be held accountable for blockading Nuclear power in the 1970s. The US was completing one NPP per month by 1974, with two on order per month, at that rate the US would have been 100% clean electricity supply by the early 1990's. You greenies stopped that. And ensured that China wouldn't go the same route, it would be building dozens of NPP's per year now, instead of dozens of Coal power plants, as it is.
Climate change is not "wreaking terrible havoc" on anyone (except perhaps some politicians). Arguably, climate change has been beneficial to date and will likely continue to be. The current "alternative forms of energy" are intermittent, unreliable and expensive. Fossil fuels and nuclear currently "fill in the blanks" during periods of low/no renewable generation. In a Net Zero world, fossil fuels go away to be replaced by DEFRs and/or storage. Storage produces nothing and requires additional intermittent renewables to assure adequate and timely recharging. Independent DEFRs (nuclear & hydro) adequate to "fill in the blanks" render intermittent renewables redundant. Redundancy costs.
If you know more then every collage and university climatology department.
And you know more then NOAA our governments top climate experts. And the IPPPC the United Nations top climate experts. ( many of whom volunteer their time , they don’t get paid by some solar companies, as nutty right wing groups try and tell you . )
Then I suggest you go and explain to them what you know , that they don’t .
The IPCC scientists participating in WG1 present a far more restrained assessment of climate change than the politically-generated Summary for Policymakers.
I do not claim to know wore than anybody, but I know what I know.
You certainly are welcome to provide a detailed critique of what I have written here.
There’s not one person on earth who hasn’t in some way be affected by climate change.
From the price of food , to slowing the supply chains like the Panama Canal . ( because you likely didn’t read about it . There’s no water to fill the canal as it used to)
To health . I know people who got sick here in Vt. from smoke from California fires .
And the cost from two floods happening at the exact same time a year apart ,was in the millions of dollars the Fed. and my state has paid .
If your so into the science of how nuclear power works , is there some reason you can’t follow the science of climatologists who can’t find one place on earth they can’t measure the higher temperatures we have now ?
Yes, we're probably all a little warmer.
The price of food is not up because of climate change. Production is up because of CO2-induced global greening. Prices are up because of government-induced inflation.
California and Canadian fires were not caused by climate change. Most were either accidentally or purposely caused by humans.
Panama Canal not climate change: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/07/panama-canal-drought-not-caused-by-climate-change/
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/low-water-levels-in-panama-canal-due-to-increasing-demand-exacerbated-by-el-nino-event/
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62408
Two floods in a row are weather events not climate change. 30 in a row would be climate change. Flood damage costs increase because more infrastructure is build in areas subject to flooding and storm drainage systems are not expanded.
There are several places on earth where climatologists do not measure temperatures, but rather estimate them. Much of the measured warming is the result of UHI and poorly sited measuring stations, plus a little "delicate factory adjustment".