"The climate around climate change is changing" | Eastern NC Now

"It's time to get real about climate change" a prominent Polish podcaster recently proclaimed.  He did not advocate following the Greta Thunberg path but just the opposite.  With Poland's presidential election upcoming, he urged the presidential candidate of the populist nationalist consevative Law and Justice Party to openly oppose the onerous Green Deal of the EU in his election campaign.

He pointed how other European leaders were comprehending how the Green Deal was negatively impacting their economies and that questioning "utopian" climate goals was now mainstream in Europe.  "The climate around climate change is changing" he asserted.

He cited the current Czech prime minister, who is from the traditional conservative Civic Democrats, recent statement that the EU's climate goals are contrary to the development of the European economy and threaten the prosperity of its inhabitants.  Also cited was one of Germany's leading economists who said that the "utopian" climate goals could only be achieved at the cost of deindustrialization.

His main focus however was current German politics where the populist conservative AfD is openly challenging the EU climate mandates in its plaform and doing well with voters as a result.  The AfD is now running a close second to the tradtional conservative CDU which is in first place and continually moving closer to the AfD on climate policy.  He noted that in fact in Germany's upcoming election, only the leftwing Green Party is still campaigning on  supporting the EU Green Deal.  It is running in single digits in the polls.

The point raised was that with strident climate policies floundering with voters in Europe, the Law and Justice Party needed to ride opposition to them as one of its key issues.  Green parties across the continent took a severe beating in the EU parliament elections earlier this year while populist parties of the right made major gains.

https://rmx.news/article/its-time-to-get-real-about-climate-change/

The power of the pushback against green extremism was shown on our own continent in the last provincial election in the Canadian province of Ontario, where newly chosen Conservative Party leader Doug Ford made opposition to the green energy policies of the governing Liberal Party a key focus of his campaign.  That focus resulted in the biggest landslide in Canadian history, flipping a 2 to 1 Liberal over Conservative majority to a 10 to 1 Conservative over Liberal majority.  The first act of the new Conservative provincial premier Doug Ford was to cancel all wind and solar permit applications then in the pipeline and restore local govenrment authority to black those projects, which the Liberals had taken away.  The Conservative majority then repealed the Green Energy Act.

The podcaster could also have pointed out how unreliable and expensive wind and solar energy is not working out very well for those countries that went hog wild on it and their consumers:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germanys-weak-winds-trigger-record-surge-gas-fired-power-maguire-2024-12-04/

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Wind-Power/Brits-Pay-Billions-To-Waste-Wind-Energy.html

The UK is now rivalling Germany on switching to wind and solar and is now passing Germany for the record of highest utility prices in the world, a position Germany gained soon after Merkel's Energy Transition took hold.