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Germany’s unlikely champion of a radical green energy path : Comments
By Christian Schwägerl, published 2/6/2011Angela Merkel has just recently announced she is scrapping Germany's nuclear program and moving to renewables.
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Germany has undergone one of its periodic brain storms. The expense and unreliability of so called renewables will rapidly become obvious to the most fanatical green politician. The financial burden of importing power from neighbouring nuclear countries will be felt in increasing measure by the German electorate. So with the passage of time, and as reality bites the delusional fever that has gripped that country will subside.
Posted by anti-green, Thursday, 2 June 2011 3:58:34 PM
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Angela Merkel is just doing what Juliar did.
To stay in power she compromises with the greens to screw the electorate. "Due to changed electoral circumstances we had to sell our souls to the greens" seems to the excuse for idiot decisions in vogue. Posted by Shadow Minister, Thursday, 2 June 2011 4:19:55 PM
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In related news, Germany has announced they are thinking of scrapping Angela Merkel and moving to somebody else. ANYBODY else.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/373001,drop-popularity-nuclear-u-turn.html "German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) dropped to their lowest popularity rating in four months in a poll published Wednesday, apparently due to a government rethink on nuclear power. The CDU dropped three points to 33 per cent, in the survey by pollsters Forsa, just four days ahead of a key election test in the prosperous southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg." Posted by Jon J, Thursday, 2 June 2011 5:52:21 PM
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Agnostic, what risk to the environment do you mean?
A move away from fossil fuels is no help to the environment. No detrimental efects from CO2 have been demonstrated, while its benefits are obvious. A move away from nuclear is even less help to the environment. It is clean energy. The question has to be, what political pressure has the United Nations devised to cause this disastrous shift by Merkel, to become the Pied Piper for the AGW scam. Natural CO2 comprises 97% of the CO2 in the atmosphere. Human emissions are calculated to be 3%. There is a natural variation of 10% in the CO2 cycle, so the 3% is not noticeable in the natural cycle and human emissions cannot be shown to have any but a negligible effect. The settled science is that warming occurs in natural cycles, and human input has not been shown to have any effect. It is highly unlikely that it will be shown to have any effect. The Co2 content in the atmosphere has increased and we have had no warming for 15 years, while there has been a slight cooling, which the Climategate miscreants have been unsuccessful in hiding, despite their best fraudulen efforts. There is no rational or constructive basis for Merkel’s actions. It must be political, and the parasitic and secretive UN the most likely culprit. Fossil fuels are coming into their own, after years of mindless badmouthing, and when Germany is ruined, by this nonsense, we will have the example proving that any move away from fossil fuels is disastrous. Posted by Leo Lane, Thursday, 2 June 2011 6:14:44 PM
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Angela Merkel is not stupid, and she has a PhD in physics. As the article stated it is not about tsunamis or the like but about probability that the unforeseen happens. Also called black swan.
She realised there is no such thing as safe nuclear. Her decision combined with Germany ingenuity and accuracy will make Germany the leader in renewables within years and all others will follow and buy technology from Germany. If they combined forces with Australia which has the best renewable ressources they would become an unbeatable team. But I am afraid Australia will be snoozing for many more years, and maybe dreaming of nuclear, a dying technology. But Germany will do it on its own anyway. Vielen Dank für den interessanten Artikel, Christian. Posted by renysol, Thursday, 2 June 2011 6:55:54 PM
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