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NNadir

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Wed Mar 16, 2022, 07:24 PM Mar 2022

An Energy Battleground Between Russia and Germany with Dr. Filip Cernoch

This is a lecture I attended yesterday on line with reference to the Ukraine War. It's available on You Tube:

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The title speaks for itself.

Of particular interest is the remarks of of Dr. Roman Sidortsov of Michigan Tech, particularly the statement he says, um, might be controversial which is that the so called "energy transition" needed Russian and Saudi oil.

(There is no energy transition; the rate of climate change gas releases is increasing not decreasing, but still it's a public chant that such a thing exists, although there's no evidence of it._

Reliance on dangerous fossil fuels is increasing, not decreasing, although the EU has announced another of those wonderful "by such and such year" statements that it will stop using Russian oil "by 2027."

We'll see.

We still have people here thinking that the German energy policy - "wind and solar will save us" - is about eliminating dependence on dangerous fossil fuels, about climate change. The opposite is true. It's not about climate change, never was. This is a fact. Facts matter.
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