{"id":348450,"date":"2024-10-22T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348450"},"modified":"2024-10-22T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:30:24","slug":"the-irrationality-of-western-energy-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348450","title":{"rendered":"The Irrationality of Western Energy Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tilak Doshi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Irrationality of Western Energy Policies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What leads a country to begin winding down<\/a> domestic oil and gas production while promoting the use of imported wood<\/a> \u2013 a wasteful and inefficient fuel \u2014 for power generation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What leads policymakers to shut down<\/a> a nation\u2019s last and still-functional coal generating power plant after almost 150 years of using coal and within months arrive at a situation where blackout prevention notices<\/a> have to be issued to its power generators?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK is by no means the only Western country to go down this perverse path of deindustrialization and national economic suicide<\/a>. Why are energy policies of leading Western countries afflicted by magical thinking<\/a> and irrationality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Western World is in a hypnotic trance from 30 years of relentless propaganda pushing climate alarmism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy Policy Mayhem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence abounds of the mayhem that passes for energy policy in the West. It is only appropriate to start with Germany, the epicentre of the green trance that policymakers there have been hypnotized into. This follows decades of worship in the Church of Climate<\/a> in the media and spouted by its intellectual chattering class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start with the destruction of thousands of acres of ancient Teutonic forests<\/a> \u2013 the setting for the folktales of the Brothers Grimm \u2014 to make way for wind farms. The irony is lost on Germany\u2019s green ideologues that their energy policies threaten endangered species of birds and bats in its sacrifices at the altar of Mother Gaia. Consecrating thousands of windmill crucifixes with arms of petroleum-based glass-fiber-reinforced polyester resins manufactured in Chinese furnaces fueled by coal or natural gas may seem particularly absurd to those not steeped in that miasma of green ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another example of Germany\u2019s green lunacy include the shutting down of their nuclear power plants, only to then approve<\/a> putting dirty lignite-fired power plants back online for German households to keep warm in the winter of 2022\/23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

German commentator Pierre L. Gosselin<\/a> published an article earlier this year that asked bluntly, \u201cThe \u2018greener\u2019 Germany gets, the bloodier its economy becomes. How much can an economy bleed before it dies?\u201d Adding to the economic gloom<\/a> afflicting the country for the past two years, Reuters<\/a> reported in July that the economy is expected to contract by 0.2% in 2024 from a previous projection of an anaemic 0.3% growth. It beggars belief to call this an \u201cunexpected<\/a>\u201d contraction as the news wire does when the link between high energy costs and deindustrialization has been so widely discussed in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s turn to other absurdities. We recently learned that in the wisdom of Scandinavian planners, dairy farmers in Denmark<\/a> face having to pay an annual tax of 672 krone ($96) per cow \u201cfor the planet-heating emissions they generate.\u201d This policy proposal came in the wake of widespread farmers\u2019 protests<\/a> in Europe which escalated \u2013 across the width and breadth of the continent, from Sweden to Spain, Poland to Portugal \u2014 since they first started in the Netherlands in October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Great European Farmer Revolt<\/a> led to the shocking win in March by the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) in the Netherlands, putting it ahead of the governing party in the Senate. In a reaction to left-wing green parties in government, farmers became an important part of the equation in the country\u2019s political future. As part of the EU Green Deal to make agriculture consistent with being \u201ccarbon-neutral\u201d by 2050, Brussels\u2019 bureaucrats assured their citizens that their farms would be rendered more \u201csustainable\u201d, \u201cenvironmentally friendly\u201d and \u201cbiodiverse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the pride of place belongs to Ed Miliband (\u201cMad Ed<\/a>\u201d), UK\u2019s Secretary of State for the oxymoronically-named Department of Energy Security and Net Zero. UK\u2019s \u201cnet zero\u201d policies, pursued by both the Conservatives, in power for 14-years, and the new Labour government, have compromised<\/a> the country\u2019s energy security like nothing else. In Mad Ed\u2019s short time in office, the country\u2019s last coal plant<\/a> and its Port Talbot steel plant<\/a> shut down, regulatory approvals<\/a> for solar farms were rushed through over-riding local community objections, and the North Sea\u2019s oil and gas field development have been sacrificed<\/a> to an unchallenged climate lawsuit launched by Greenpeace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unsurprisingly, it was reported<\/a> in July that Britain fell out of the top ten manufacturing nations list for the first time. Mr. Miliband\u2019s decision not to challenge a lawsuit filed by Greenpeace has compromised the country\u2019s investment environment. According to Brendon Long, director of research at investment company Zeus Capital, Mr. Miliband\u2019s decision would put wider investment in Britain at risk<\/a>. He said: \u201cLondon has fallen out of the top 10 capital markets in terms of monies raised from initial public offerings. That might reflect that financial markets are increasingly concerned with the UK as a jurisdiction that values and defends property rights and the sanctity of honouring agreements made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be fair to Mad Ed, some of these developments were already underway during the previous Tory government\u2019s term of office. Nevertheless, he has built up a CV that would be the envy of the wildest left-wing Brussels bureaucrat. One could even ignore his cringe-worthy bizarre video<\/a> of him singing and strumming a ukulele in front of a windmill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But most egregious in the Labour government\u2019s short record of rule is its move to cut winter fuel payments<\/a> for millions of pensioners while pledging nearly \u00a322bn<\/a> for projects in unproven technologies to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions. Rubbing salt into the wound, Ed Miliband insisted<\/a> in July that Labour will honour its pledge of \u00a311.6bn in overseas climate aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not much better across the pond. President Biden promised to make climate change front and center of his administration\u2019s policies across the whole of government<\/a>. This has been followed by the duplicitously-named Inflation Reduction Act<\/a> which unleashes a debt-driven tsunami of subsidies on favoured \u201cgreen\u201d industries \u2013 solar, wind, EVs, batteries, hydrogen. I have written on Biden\u2019s fractured and contradictory energy policies elsewhere (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Models Not Fit For Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These absurd and immiserating \u201cnet zero\u201d policies of the West imposed at great cost to ordinary working men and women are justified by the true believers in the Church of Climate by invocations of the \u201cclimate crisis\u201d. Mr. Miliband and his ilk would respond along the lines that when the house is on fire, you don\u2019t muck about but do \u201cwhatever it takes\u201d. Doubtless, the lockdown and vaccination mandates imposed by \u201cexperts\u201d in response to Covid would be offered as an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These twin hysterias<\/a> \u2013 Covid and climate \u2014 share much in common. Both spring from not-fit-for-purpose and impossible to validate computer models that escalated alleged risks on flimsy assumptions. An unpublished 16th<\/sup> March 2020 bombshell report by Professor  Neil Ferguson<\/a> of Imperial College, London, warned of 510,000 deaths in the country if the country did not immediately adopt a Covid suppression strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By March 25th, Ferguson\u2019s predicted half a million fatalities in the UK was adjusted downward<\/a> to \u201cunlikely to exceed 20,000\u201d, a reduction by a factor of 25. This drastic reduction was credited to the UK\u2019s lockdown which, however, was imposed only 2 days previously. It was later found that Dr. Ferguson\u2019s model was not fit for purpose<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much as Ferguson\u2019s model drove governments to impose Covid lockdowns affecting nearly 3 billion people on the planet, Professor Michael Mann\u2019s \u201chockey stick\u201d model<\/a> was used by the UN\u2019s IPCC, mainstream media and politicians to push the man-made global warming (now called climate change or climate crisis) hysteria over the past two decades. But like Prof Ferguson\u2019s model, Dr. Mann\u2019s work seems more in keeping with junk science.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hysteria attracts governments, activist academics in search of research grants, and left-wing billionaire foundations<\/a> that support the vast enterprise that is the climate industrial complex. The great essayist H.L. Mencken<\/a> had this to say about governments: \u201cThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it would be na\u00efve to view the climate industrial complex as a vast conspiracy. Steve Koonin in his book Unsettled<\/a> offers a more plausible explanation, seeing a \u201cself-reinforcing alignment of perspectives and interests\u201d devoted to promoting climate alarm. Thus, governments do practical politics a la<\/em> Mencken, hubristic academics \u201csave the planet\u201d with junk science and hyperbolic claims, NGO\u2019s and crony businesses grift for regulatory rents, intellectuals virtue signal with luxury beliefs<\/a> and the mass of followers know little but feel<\/em> a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A version of this article was published by The Daily Sceptic<\/em> (https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/10\/19\/the-irrationality-of-western-energy-policies\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Tilak K. Doshi is an economist, a former contributor to Forbes, and a member of the CO2 Coalition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow him at Substack<\/a> and X<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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