Recently I realised that after WWII a very strange thing happened: the Nazis lost WWII because Hitler was obsessed with rockets, death rays and other “blue-sky” science. In contrast, in good old Blighty and the US we won the war, because we focussed on tried and tested technology like the Spitfire, had post office engineers adapt exchange technology to build calculating machines and used the available magnetron technology to build RADAR.
But after the war what happened? Did we:
- Concentrate on the tried & tested technology strategy which won us the war?
- Reach for the stars? With U2 like rockets & death rays like Hitler?
We chose to adopt not only the failed German strategy based on U2 rockets, “blue-sky” research, nuclear bombs, costly nuclear power, etc. etc. and in so doing some of the most dispicable Nazi criminals were let of scot free to work in our “science”.
In other words, in the UK and US, after WWII, our political elite put failed Nazi “science” on a pedestal … and we’ve had “deathray” doomsday nuclear “science” dictating government policy for the last 70 years. And in Germany … they put engineering on a pedestal, and as a result, their economy boomed and they don’t have anything near the same non-science of climate alarmism. Now from this article (Nuclear or coal? – The German Greens have chosen coal) it appears that even German greens are pragmatic and have grown cold on global warming:-
Nuclear or coal? – The German Greens have chosen coal
17 November 2014
Spiegel Online is reporting (translation here) that Germany is planning to back away from its 2020 climate target of 40% emissions reduction, because of a continued reliance on coal to run the German economy as a result of the nuclear phase-out known as the ‘Energiewende’.
In fairness, Spiegel has long been pretty sceptical on the Energiewende – but for good reason. It really is pretty much impossible for Germany to exit the two main sources of baseload electricity generation, coal and nuclear, at the same time. Faced with a choice, so-called ‘green’ Germany appears to be prepared to sacrifice its climate targets on the altar of its anti-nuclear ideology. I had expected a couple more years to pass before this became glaringly obvious to everyone except the most blinkered anti-nuke campaigners, but it seems to be happening earlier than I’d thought.
– See more at: Mark Lynas
