{"id":61317,"date":"2022-01-05T20:29:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61317"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:29:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:29:34","slug":"finally-bloomberg-admits-renewables-mania-caused-energy-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61317","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Bloomberg Admits Renewables Mania Caused Energy Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finally, Bloomberg Admits Renewables Mania Caused Energy Shortages<\/a><\/h3>\n

Plus, new Environmental Progress Analysis finds German emissions rose in 2021 and in will rise again in 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael Bloomberg is directly invested in natural gas and renewables and is the owner and publisher of Bloomberg Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Between\u00a02017<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a02021<\/a>, Environmental Progress and I\u00a0researched<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0dozens of articles, testified before Congress, and authored a book,\u00a0Apocalypse Never,<\/em>\u00a0arguing that weather-dependent renewables were making electricity increasingly unreliable and expensive, and making the United States, Europe, and Asia, dangerously dependent on natural gas. In response, there was an organized and somewhat successful effort by progressive climate-renewables activists to\u00a0cut off our funding<\/a>,\u00a0censor us on Facebook<\/a>, and prevent me from\u00a0testifying before Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But now, one of the biggest boosters of natural gas and renewables, media giant\u00a0Bloomberg<\/em>, whose owner, Michael Bloomberg,\u00a0is directly invested in natural gas and renewables<\/a>, has\u00a0published<\/a> an article conceding and substantiating almost every single point we have made over the years. \u201cEurope Sleepwalked Into an Energy Crisis That Could Last Years,\u201d screams the headline. The article concludes that the crisis was \u201cyears in the making\u201d because Europe is \u201cshutting down coal-fired electricity plants and increasing its reliance on renewables.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0still pulls its punches and misdescribes the situation in some ways. The article, like many other\u00a0Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0articles, mislabels the deployment of renewables as an \u201cenergy transition\u201d similar to past transitions from wood to coal and coal to natural gas, failing to acknowledge that the\u00a0poor physics of energy-dilute renewables<\/a>\u00a0make that impossible. And it suggests that Europe\u2019s energy crisis is the result of ignorance. \u201cThe energy crisis hit the bloc,\u201d notes a renewable energy PR person, \u201cwhen security of supply was not on the menu of EU policymakers,\u201d ignoring the reality that I and others warned EU policymakers of this very crisis.<\/p>\n

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Finally, Bloomberg Admits Renewables Mania Caused Energy Shortages Plus, new Environmental Progress Analysis finds German emissions rose in 2021 and in will rise again in 2022 Michael Bloomberg is directly invested in natural gas and renewables and is the owner and publisher of Bloomberg Media Between\u00a02017\u00a0and\u00a02021, Environmental Progress and I\u00a0researched\u00a0and\u00a0published\u00a0dozens of articles, testified before Congress, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[265,21423,29050,25823,674],"class_list":["post-61317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-energy-crisis","tag-energy-shortages","tag-michael-bloomberg","tag-michael-shellenberger","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61318,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61317\/revisions\/61318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}