{"id":324440,"date":"2024-04-28T08:20:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=324440"},"modified":"2024-04-28T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T06:21:02","slug":"new-document-release-reveals-greens-engaging-in-fraud-to-deceive-ministers-and-push-german-nuclear-phase-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=324440","title":{"rendered":"New Document Release Reveals Greens Engaging in Fraud to Deceive Ministers and Push German Nuclear Phase-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"436\" data-attachment-id=\"324450\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=324450\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?fit=3000%2C1807&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3000,1807\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0171424\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?fit=723%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?resize=723%2C436&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-324450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?resize=1024%2C617&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?resize=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?resize=768%2C463&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?resize=1536%2C925&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?resize=2048%2C1234&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?resize=1200%2C723&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/04\/27\/new-document-release-reveals-greens-engaging-in-fraud-to-deceive-ministers-and-push-german-nuclear-phase-out\/#comments\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/eugyppius\/\">EUGYPPIUS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"437\" data-attachment-id=\"324441\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=324441\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-26-183035.jpeg?fit=1315%2C795&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1315,795\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Screenshot-2024-04-26-183035\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-26-183035.jpeg?fit=723%2C437&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-26-183035.jpeg?resize=723%2C437&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-324441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-26-183035.jpeg?resize=1024%2C619&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-26-183035.jpeg?resize=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-26-183035.jpeg?resize=768%2C464&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-26-183035.jpeg?resize=1200%2C725&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-26-183035.jpeg?w=1315&amp;ssl=1 1315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of our countries are crazy in various ways, but when it comes to energy policy Germany is an undisputed champion of crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2011, a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster. If you check a map, you\u2019ll notice that Fukushima is in a country called Japan, which it turns out is a different country from Germany. The Fukushima disaster had zero to do with the Federal Republic, but then-Chancellor Angela Merkel felt the need to solve the problem of Fukushima by phasing out nuclear power in Germany, even though tsunamis and earthquakes are not a problem in Germany, because Germany is a country in Central Europe and not an island nation in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is crazy enough, but it gets much crazier. Months before announcing the nuclear phase-out, Merkel\u2019s Government had passed energy transition legislation to secure Germany\u2019s path towards a zero-emissions future. We resolved to ditch our most significant source of emissions-free power, in other words, just months after resolving an energy transition to emissions-free power. At this point you would be justified in wondering if Germany suffers from some kind of shamanistic cultural phobia of electricity in general, that is how crazy this is. These insane choices had the near-term consequence of increasing our dependence on Russian natural gas. Otherwise, they ensured that power generation in Germany would be vastly more expensive than necessary and also vastly more carbon intensive than necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, crazy demands explanations, and observers have proposed various theories for the German climate nuclear crazy. Two of them deserve mention here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The 1968 generation in Germany suffered from unusual radicalism, sharpened by moral anxiety over National Socialism, and resolved to outcompete all others in the project of self-abnegating virtue. Our culture developed a deranged anti-nuclear movement that in a fit of typical German thoroughness also came to embrace opposition to nuclear power. The Chernobyl disaster radicalised the pink-haired anti-nuclearists still further, and these cretins grew up to become news anchors, school teachers and book authors, effectively indoctrinating the next generation according to their parareligious delusions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>German politicians after the Cold War \u2013 especially Gerhard Schr\u00f6der and Angela Merkel \u2013 harboured a subtle and not entirely unreasonable desire to strengthen ties with resource-rich Russia. They decided that the anti-nuclearists and the Green Party could be instrumentalised towards this end. The energy transition and the nuclear phase-out increased our dependence on Russian gas, and this was a feature more than it was a bug.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are mutually supporting theories, but I don\u2019t think either of them can fully account for the bizarre phenomenon before us. Germany energy crazy is a very deep problem and it will keep historians busy for many generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, and Germany under Merkel\u2019s successor, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, decided along with the rest of the liberal West that Russia was bad, bad, bad and that evil Putin had to be punished with self-immolating sanctions, sanctions, sanctions. This new spasm of high-minded moralising further attenuated our energy situation, ushering in an entirely self-made energy crisis. The Greens, now in government, were determined to proceed with the last stages of the nuclear phase-out, even with our natural gas supplies in doubt. Only when they saw themselves staring into the abyss of political doom did they grudgingly agree to give our last nuclear plants a three-and-a-half month lease on life. We Germans and our energy policy had out-crazied everyone else, we had made ourselves the laughing stock of the entire world, that is how crazy we were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Greens fought ruthless bureaucratic battles to shut off the last remaining nuclear power plants, and in the years since they have fought ruthless legal battles to keep the records of all this under seal lest their idiocies ever see the light of day. In open court, they argued that these documents must remain secret, because the German&nbsp;<em>Sonderweg&nbsp;<\/em>in all things nuclear \u201chas to be defended in the future, both domestically and to our international and European partners\u201d and \u201cif the documents were to be disclosed, the negotiating partners of the Federal Government could counter our arguments\u201d. Yes, you read that right: lawyers for the German Ministry of Economic Affairs stood before a judge last year and begged him not to release internal records relating to the German nuclear phase-out because their contents were so discrediting that they would make the policy impossible to justify at home and defend abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Government, then, is not only crazy. Its members also know that they\u2019re crazy, they love being crazy, they wish to persist in their crazy and they hope only that nobody else finds out about their crazy. It is like a middle-aged man with a crippling addiction to foot porn worried that his wife might stumble across his browsing history, except transmogrified into the form of a major European industrial power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happily, journalists for the excellent news magazine&nbsp;<em>Cicero<\/em>&nbsp;won their court battle and succeeded in forcing the release of the deeply embarrassing nuclear memos.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicero.de\/innenpolitik\/robert-habeck-akten-atomkraftwerke-kernkraftwerke-klage-akw-laufzeit-atomausstieg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Today Daniel Gr\u00e4ber has published his long-awaited analysis of these records<\/a>, and what it reveals is really and truly abysmal. These documents show high civil servants literally falsifying expert reports. They show these same officials withholding information from their boss, Economics Minister Robert Habeck, lest he inconveniently arrive at the right conclusions. And they show an oblivious and wilfully deceived Habeck, still dreaming of becoming Chancellor one day and terrified of alienating the rabid antinuclearists of his own party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before we get to the highlights, I must introduce you to our cast of characters. They are a colourful bunch indeed. At the pinnacle of this tragicomedy is of course Habeck himself, our valiant Minister of Economic Affairs. He hails from the technocratic, so-called \u2018realist\u2019 wing of the Green Party, which means that he is Hard-Headed Very Serious Visionary and not just another crazy Leftist hippie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"324443\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=324443\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-324443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/063e98256-75b5-46e9-a102-ed10cf791f02_1920x1080.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Habeck as he wishes to be seen and as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/interview-mit-robert-habeck-gruene-bundeswirtschaftsminister-zu-ukraine-hilfe-dlf-d95631b6-100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0state media strive to portray him<\/a>: the far-sighted, deeply intellectual statesman. In fact, as we will see, he is a total idiot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Habeck\u2019s even stupider colleague, Annalena Baerbock, ended up being the Green Chancellor candidate in the 2021 elections because feminism. Frustrated ambitions can ruin the best of men, to say nothing of petty pseudointellectual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Kleine-Helden-gro%C3%9Fe-Abenteuer-Vorlesegeschichten\/dp\/3961291462\/ref=sr_1_3?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=3FIO8CU95FPM&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pskWm3ZlXe9vMWBiMk6fpsNR9LEqXlZQy2Neb1b2-CL9tFwtK1fct_Rrk_FmD5_PErLyRwFKf6LmSNSspqtDh6Rvs2Q4fsCc4mIjyMtHngs6rPGs_OZ8RfIfmqQyjVc9dNUvoxyx7CgnZT81KZc0Qyz-7WJAlHfmKG_45uAqLXCeq11wU7H41oGEuNNWCi61aY9wMrV6J0iD2WW01rmLXquv39f4nfgqckrpABJe0_0.Pl8MqWXronos5F4i-oOCLKtlR54zG2e2APXQ57kl4os&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Robert+Habeck&amp;qid=1714060695&amp;sprefix=robert+habeck%2Caps%2C102&amp;sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">children\u2019s book authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next, you must meet Habeck\u2019s powerful State Secretary, Patrick Graichen. This odious man, who was forced to resign May 2023 in the face of a nepotism scandal, was Habeck\u2019s energy tsar during the 2022 crisis. He came to the Ministry following years as a lobbyist at Agora Energiewende, a think-tank responsible for devising and promoting much of the present German renewables lunacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"498\" data-attachment-id=\"324445\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=324445\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/06e96df71-798a-4137-902e-b0e4114a4634_1332x918.jpg?fit=1332%2C918&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1332,918\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"06e96df71-798a-4137-902e-b0e4114a4634_1332x918\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/06e96df71-798a-4137-902e-b0e4114a4634_1332x918.jpg?fit=723%2C498&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/06e96df71-798a-4137-902e-b0e4114a4634_1332x918.jpg?resize=723%2C498&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-324445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/06e96df71-798a-4137-902e-b0e4114a4634_1332x918.jpg?resize=1024%2C706&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/06e96df71-798a-4137-902e-b0e4114a4634_1332x918.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/06e96df71-798a-4137-902e-b0e4114a4634_1332x918.jpg?resize=768%2C529&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/06e96df71-798a-4137-902e-b0e4114a4634_1332x918.jpg?resize=1200%2C827&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/06e96df71-798a-4137-902e-b0e4114a4634_1332x918.jpg?w=1332&amp;ssl=1 1332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third in line is Stefan Tidow, who looks like what would happen if you blended a shark with an accountant. He also has a background at Agora, where he worked for a time under his friend Graichen. When the Scholz Government came to power, Tidow became State Secretary in the Ministry for the Environment, responsible for nuclear supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"578\" data-attachment-id=\"324446\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=324446\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0468d313a-e927-4ccf-b6cb-a50b296b164f_1332x1064.jpg?fit=1332%2C1064&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1332,1064\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0468d313a-e927-4ccf-b6cb-a50b296b164f_1332x1064\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0468d313a-e927-4ccf-b6cb-a50b296b164f_1332x1064.jpg?fit=723%2C578&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0468d313a-e927-4ccf-b6cb-a50b296b164f_1332x1064.jpg?resize=723%2C578&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-324446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0468d313a-e927-4ccf-b6cb-a50b296b164f_1332x1064.jpg?resize=1024%2C818&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0468d313a-e927-4ccf-b6cb-a50b296b164f_1332x1064.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0468d313a-e927-4ccf-b6cb-a50b296b164f_1332x1064.jpg?resize=768%2C613&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0468d313a-e927-4ccf-b6cb-a50b296b164f_1332x1064.jpg?resize=1200%2C959&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0468d313a-e927-4ccf-b6cb-a50b296b164f_1332x1064.jpg?w=1332&amp;ssl=1 1332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, there is Tidow\u2019s subordinate, an insane lawyer named Gerrit Niehaus. Like his boss Tidow, Niehaus appears to truly loathe nuclear power for unfathomable reasons, and that is very unfortunate, because the Green Environmental Minister placed him in charge of \u201cDepartment S\u201d, the division responsible for nuclear regulation. I cannot find a good picture of Niehaus, so for the purposes of this post I invite you to imagine an unpleasant male visage of your choosing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"421\" height=\"236\" data-attachment-id=\"324448\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=324448\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-453.png?fit=421%2C236&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"421,236\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-453\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-453.png?fit=421%2C236&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-453.png?resize=421%2C236&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-324448\" style=\"width:631px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-453.png?w=421&amp;ssl=1 421w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-453.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As soon as Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th 2022, Habeck and his Ministry knew that their plans to abolish nuclear power were in doubt. Habeck initially suggested he was open to delaying the phase-out, and his subordinates commissioned an assessment from internal experts on whether extending the lifetime of our last nuclear plants would enhance energy security. These politically neutral civil servants produced a four-page memo explaining in detail all the reasons that shutting down power plants in the face of a looming energy crisis might be a bad idea, and why it might be wise to keep them running through the winter. All the arguments that would emerge in the autumn as the energy crisis deepened were thus, as Gr\u00e4ber explains, \u201con the table right from the start\u2026 well-prepared by civil-servant experts whose job it is tend to the welfare of the entire country rather than of any specific party\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fascinatingly, Habeck claims that he never saw the assessment. His energy tsar Graichen, intent on phasing out nuclear power by the end of the year even if it meant freezing to death in the dark, seems to have sent it directly to the waste bin \u2013 condemning his boss to say stupid and wrong things on television for months to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Graichen\u2019s counterpart in the Ministry of the Environment, our accountant-shark Tidow, was working just as hard to subvert inconvenient reports on his end. On March 1st 2022, his Ministry commissioned an assessment on \u201cscenarios compatible with nuclear safety\u201d, should the last nuclear plants be allowed to run beyond December 31st. The authors of the report \u2013 including two outside consultants \u2013 affirmed that safety concerns did not stand in the way of extending plant lifetime \u201cfor several years\u201d beyond the scheduled phase-out date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tidow\u2019s subordinate in \u201cDepartment S\u201d, Gerrit Niehaus, found this document to be highly inconvenient, and he immediately began rewriting it. Amusingly, he replaced every occurrence of the word for \u201cnuclear power\u201d (<em>Kernkraft<\/em>) with the slightly more ominous-sounding \u201catomic power\u201d (<em>Atomkraft<\/em>). \u201cThen,\u201d Gr\u00e4ber writes, \u201che set about turning the core message of the memo into its opposite.\u201d It took him two days to do this. On March 3rd the new, falsified memo was ready, now scrubbed of the original authors\u2019 names and sourced only to \u201cDepartment S\u201d. It argued that extending the life of Germany\u2019s final nuclear plants by even a few months represented too great a risk to contemplate. And once again, Habeck was kept in the dark. Niehaus\u2019s boss, Tidow, withheld the original assessment and forwarded only Niehaus\u2019s doctored version to Graichen at the Economics Ministry. With it came a note: \u201cDon\u2019t formally deliver, only for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There ensued an astounding comedy of the absurd. Apparently doubting that Habeck would have the appetite to read even the doctored memo, Graichen drew up an entirely new document, entitled \u2018An examination of the continued operation of nuclear power plants in view of the war in Ukraine\u2019. Of course, this was yet another bureaucratic invention that recommended against extending the life of the last German nuclear plants, and this on an even more egregiously pseudointellectual basis. Graichen promptly forwarded this fraudulent derivation of a falsified memo of a genuine assessment to Habeck \u2013 who of course really, really loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a Friday evening, but Habeck\u2019s intellectual orgasm was so intense that he spent the evening and much of the next day rewriting Graichen\u2019s farce into a long question-and-answer dialogue. Having finished this labour of love, our proud schoolboy happily forwarded it to Graichen and Tidow, explaining that he had reworked Graichen\u2019s \u201cmarvellous paper\u201d into an FAQ, \u201cbecause I believe this has to be NARRATED. If you want to read about this, so will everyone else\u201d. Habeck suggested that they send this fourth narrative derivation of Graichen\u2019s fraudulent reconception of Niehaus\u2019s falsified memo of a genuine assessment to the nuclear plant operators the next day, at noon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our bureaucratic wizards now had a very delicate problem. As Niehaus explained, Graichen\u2019s memo (derivation number three) was a complete disaster \u2013 \u201cgrossly wrong in legal terms\u201d and mistaken in other respects as well. Habeck had unknowingly taken all of this ignorance into his \u201cNARRATIVE\u201d and was now demanding they use this monument of ideological idiocy to tell the actual experts \u2013 the nuclear plant operators \u2013 how things had to be. There followed, as Gr\u00e4ber writes, \u201ca lively email exchange in which Habeck\u2019s people wondered what they should do about the story written by their boss, which was based on false facts\u201d. They finally posted a \u201cradically shortened\u201d and \u201cheavily rewritten\u201d version to the Ministry website on March 8th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end, the Green bureaucrats lost the battle but they won the war. All the fake, invented reasons why the nuclear plants could not be left running into the spring melted away as the energy crisis deepened and the Government found themselves toeing the brink of political annihilation. The plants did go offline, however, if a little later than Graichen, Tidow and Niehaus had hoped. The Greens declared victory and Habeck dreams of his future Chancellorship to this day. What remained in the archives of Habeck\u2019s ministry were the awkward leavings of their radicalism, ignorance and will to deceive, which in this case at least they failed to keep from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/p\/new-document-release-reveals-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">originally appeared\u00a0<\/a>on\u00a0Eugyppius\u2019s Substack newsletter. You can subscribe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of our countries are crazy in various ways, but when it comes to energy policy Germany is an undisputed champion of crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":324450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818946,691818155,691818051,691820886,691818154,691818206,691819379,691818181,691818603],"class_list":{"0":"post-324440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-disinformation","9":"tag-gas","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-green-party-of-germany","12":"tag-net-zero","13":"tag-nuclear-power","14":"tag-propaganda","15":"tag-renewable-energy","16":"tag-russia","18":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0171424.jpg?fit=3000%2C1807&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1moU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":212800,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=212800","url_meta":{"origin":324440,"position":0},"title":"Reality Bites: Germany\u2019s Wind &#038; Solar Transition Declared Abject Failure","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/10\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The German government\u2019s cultish obsession with wind and solar is a mixture of wishful thinking and mass delusion. 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