{"id":683827,"date":"2025-12-18T06:40:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=683827"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:40:52","slug":"cold-green-europe-what-happens-when-ideology-trumps-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=683827","title":{"rendered":"Cold, Green Europe: What Happens When Ideology Trumps Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The European Union serves as a\u00a0<strong>warning of what happens when ideology trumps physics<\/strong>. Climate mandates cannot make the wind blow.\u00a0<strong>The &#8220;green&#8221; emperor has no clothes<\/strong>, and, baby, it\u2019s cold outside&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bureaucrats in Brussels and politicians in Berlin have spent decades lecturing the world on the moral necessity to abandon hydrocarbons.\u00a0<strong>They have constructed a narrative of the European Union as a shining city powered by the breeze and sun, modeling a net-zero utopia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Yet, when the first real chill of winter settled over the continent this fall, that facade collapsed under the weight of physical reality.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;..Herein lies the supreme irony of the story:\u00a0<em><strong>An anti-fossil fuel, anti-drilling European Union is keeping its population alive only because of a pro-fossil fuel, pro-human administration across the Atlantic.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/cold-green-europe-what-happens-when-ideology-trumps-physics\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/cold-green-europe-what-happens-when-ideology-trumps-physics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union serves as a\u00a0warning of what happens when ideology trumps physics. Climate mandates cannot make the wind blow.\u00a0The &#8220;green&#8221; emperor has no clothes, and, baby, it\u2019s cold outside&#8230; Bureaucrats in Brussels and politicians in Berlin have spent decades &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=683827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683828,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683827\/revisions\/683828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}