{"id":337632,"date":"2024-07-26T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337632"},"modified":"2024-07-26T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:23:02","slug":"e-u-elections-offer-climate-and-energy-policy-lessons-for-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337632","title":{"rendered":"E.U. elections offer climate and energy policy lessons for U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, particularly in Western Europe, Green activists and left-leaning politicians successfully frightened voters into accepting rising prices and cumbersome lifestyle changes to battle a so-called climate change \u201ccrisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this seems to have abruptly ended in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent EU elections last month suggest that the Green strangulation of jobs and living standards is finally weakening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geert Wilders\u2019 Netherlands conservative and farmers alliance won six seats in the EU Parliament, while the leftist Green and Labour Party alliance fell to eight seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conservative Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland party gained strength to become the second largest in Germany, while Greens lost 17 of the 71 seats they\u2019d won in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the Euro elections gave \u201ccentrist\u201d parties a majority in the European Parliament, while conservative parties gained significant strength. This likely means a more conservative EU Parliament will not enact any new \u201cambitious\u201d climate or energy policies, but it will also mean it cannot easily roll back existing laws either. At least this go-round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pushback against radical climate policies is encouraging and has been bubbling up more and more in recent times. It started when French protesters in bright yellow vests (Gilets Jaunes) clogged Paris streets<\/a>, railing against fuel tax hikes and other injustices back in 2019. It was stalled a bit by the COVID pandemic, but then resumed in full force earlier this year when convoys of German, Irish and Dutch farmers dramatized their outrage over \u201cclimate action\u201d plans to restrict nitrogen fertilizers<\/a>, cull cattle herds<\/a> and close thousands of farms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British and German voters seethed mostly in their homes and pubs. Brits were incensed that high energy prices are driving industries and jobs overseas and making it impossible for many families to heat homes<\/a> properly in wintertime, while forests of wind turbines blight rural and ocean areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germans also blew gaskets as their electricity prices became the highest worldwide, and their schizophrenic government bulldozed an ancient village<\/a> to mine coal, leveled a forest<\/a> to erect wind turbines, tore down wind turbines<\/a> to mine more coal, and imported gas because it has banned fracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the insanity noted above, Euro politicians added to the dismay when they decreed that summer Olympics athletes will have no air conditioning<\/a>; cars can enter London only if they pay outrageous fees<\/a>; only electric vehicles<\/a> can be sold after 2035; and lights to be turned off<\/a> on public buildings and monuments. In Germany, people were actually being urged to take one 5-minute shower per day, and informed that in wintertime public buildings will be no warmer than 66 degrees F, while only one room should be heated<\/a> in their private homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The obsession with climate change and going \u201cNet Zero\u201d also sent average gasoline prices soaring up to $8.24 a gallon<\/a> in Europe. While average residential electricity costs have risen to 15\u00a2 per kilowatt-hour<\/a> in the United States (thanks to our own foolish \u201cNet Zero\u201d efforts) \u2013 In Europe they\u2019ve already skyrocketed to 31\u00a2 in Britain<\/a> and 36\u00a2 in Germany<\/a>. Many European pensioners and families cannot afford to heat their homes properly, and thousands die every winter<\/a> from hypothermia and diseases they\u2019d survive if they weren\u2019t so cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such developments no doubt played an important role in the EU election results.  However, don\u2019t expect the Greens and their liberal allies in the Old World to roll over and play dead.  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her allies are already scheming to ignore the voters and freeze<\/a> conservative leaders such as Mme Le Pen and Italian PM Meloni out of important climate, energy, immigration and taxation matters \u2013 and may forge alliances with remaining Greens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, those on the Left have bounced back, somewhat, in the UK.  Disillusioned British voters elected progressive Labour politicians and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. They dumped \u201cconservative\u201d Tories who had mismanaged the economy and drifted so far leftward that they were almost indistinguishable from Tories, especially on energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Greens can\u2019t be overly exuberant. Brits also elected Nigel Farage<\/a> and four of his Reform UK allies. They reject climate-obsessed energy policies \u2013 and will erect significant obstacles to Mr. Starmer\u2019s far-left policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Euro elections suggest that US politicians who want to restore America\u2019s freedom and prosperity should never offer \u201cless bad\u201d alternatives to the fundamentally destructive policies the Green Left. Conservative politicians should repeatedly emphasize that unreliable energy systems raise energy and food prices, wreak havoc on the environment, send jobs and factories to China, and ensure more blackouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, they are a road to a hellish Green serfdom \u2014 not to prosperity or a cleaner environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at NewsMax<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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