Miguel Rakiewicz writes in Tips and Notes:
Spiegel.com has today published the English translation of its interview of “The Cold Sun” author, Fritz Vahrenholt.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,813814,00.html
Not only is Vahrenholt a prominent Social Democrat and former German Environment Minister, but also outgoing CEO of the renewable energy group RWE Innogy.
It’s an extensive interview, touching upon the various climate-influencing factors left out by the IPCC in its promotion of CO2 as the apocalyptic threat to mankind, and the massive government intervention and expense to supposedly make it go away.
“The Cold Sun” author explains the reason of his current point of view as
follows:
Vahrenholt:
For years, I disseminated the hypotheses of the IPCC, and I feel duped. Renewable energy is near and dear to me, and I’ve been fighting for its expansion for more than 30 years. My concern is that if citizens discover that the people who warn of a climate disaster are only telling half the truth, they will no longer be prepared to pay higher electricity costs for wind and solar (energy). Then the conversion of our energy supply will lack the necessary acceptance.
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Now that’s good stuff right there!
Renewable energy only makes sense if it makes economic sense. It is as simple as that.
Is something lost in the translation?
His lamenting sounds like he wants to keep duping the public…
into accepting the cost of conversion to renewable energy.
eh? That’s a betrayal.
Well, I am glad that even though Renewable Energy is a gris-gris for him, he does what he feels is most honest.
I will have to look for a downloadable English version…
The conversion of our energy supply will be accepted when we no longer have to “be prepared to pay higher electricity costs”. I.e. when renewables become economically sound instead of economical suicide.
Half the truth?
As much as that?
All good lies contain a little truth but I think the “inconvenient” cocktail was long on tonic and short on gin
When you “sell” something based upon a fundamental lie, and that fact is exposed to those convinced to buy only by the urgency of the lie, then it is odds on the exposure will be accompanied by a feeling of gullibility that the buyer was taken in, with a loss of trust in both the product and the promoter.
The trick is to anticipate the exposure, the decline in trust, shift ground, blame someone else, rejig and try to regain trust by reframing the sales pitch if the product is half good, otherwise grab whatever profits you can and head to some Paradise where they can’t extradite you. There you continue to claim innocence or victimization, even write a book?
A little late, but a welcome apostasy.
Well…duh. I could have told you that a long time ago.
…uh, excuse me, but I wasn’t willing to pay higher electricity bills in the first place
and everything else that will be higher because of it
I don’t disagree with the conversion from carbon-based energy to alternate energy sources, but I believe it should be done for the right reasons and in a sane/logical manner that won’t destroy our civilization as we know it. We can do better than we are now, but not with the hysteria that is currently driving the agenda.
“The Cold Sun” author explains the reason of his current point of view as
follows:
Vahrenholt:
For years, I disseminated the hypotheses of the IPCC, and I feel duped. Renewable energy is near and dear to me, and I’ve been fighting for its expansion for more than 30 years. My concern is that if citizens discover that the people who warn of a climate disaster are only telling half the truth, they will no longer be prepared to pay higher electricity costs for wind and solar (energy). Then the conversion of our energy supply will lack the necessary acceptance.
That sounds more like the reason for his former point of view ….
He feels duped? Consumers should feel duped by his insistance that they pay more for a costly alternative that is ‘near and dear’ to him
He’s giving up on one dup-ed Cause to retain another? The Reality Bites demolition of AGW projections is, fortunately, paralleled by the financial and engineering implosions of renewables.
If he feels disoriented now, he’ll have to take up full-time residence in a State Home For The Bewildered once the Renewables Scam also penetrates his mental miasma.
“Concerned” are you, that your collaborators are only telling half the truth?
They aren’t telling any truth.
The link seems broken…
Frequent readers of wattsupwiththat know about the climatescam. But there are other scams, lots of them… I’m not gonna point them out, but as a general rule anything that is highly propagandized and where critics or sceptics are subject to ridicule or harrassment is highly suspect and should be looked at closely. The thing is that truths stand on its own merits. If it takes propaganda and discouraging those questioning something, it obviously can’t stand on its own. Then it’s often just a meme that’s designed to serve a purpose and has very little to do with truth or what’s good for mankind in general as opposed to a small clique of resource heavy individuals. As the climatescam falls apart, keep looking for the rest of those wicked memes and kill them off too.
He’s giving up on one dup-ed Cause to retain another? The Reality Bites demolition of AGW projections is, fortunately, paralleled by the financial and engineering implosions of renewables.
If he feels disoriented now, he’ll have to take up full-time residence in a State Home For The Bewildered once the Renewables’ Inanity also penetrates his mental miasma.
There are many on the front lines of alarmism who are true believers in AGW. If they “feel duped” enough to turn against the cause, they will end up as the alarmists fiercest opponents.
Link not working.
REPLY: Checked, works just fine – A
Let’s have a hypothetical parody of Varenholt’s position. The year: 1975. “I learned today that what Jim Jones has been telling us is not wholly correct. That he has been ommitting some information from his sermons. That he has distorted the truth. This upsets me because. if thie becomes whidely known, then many followers might not accept the other things he has been telling us and we won’t get to go to that lovely commune in South America that I have been looking forward to……”
Come on. I mean, I am glad this person is now a thinking person, but why should he have ANY delusions that the rest of the population SHOULD accept anything. it’s time for a system re-set.
In his book Vahrenholt describes that he felt duped and decided to write his book when he read Montford’s “The Hockey Stick Illusion” and realized the tricks Michael Mann used to get rid of the medieval warm period.
Nobody shall say the hockey stick was all bad…
“My concern is that if citizens discover that the people who warn of a climate disaster are only telling half the truth, they will no longer be prepared to pay higher electricity costs for wind and solar (energy)”.
Substitute the words, “half the truth” with “lies” and maybe it’ll become more understandable.
“Then the conversion of our energy supply will lack the necessary acceptance.”
Try telling the truth!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,813814,00.html is the right address Unfortunately, that’s not where clicking on the link in the article takes one. It’s hard to describe the problem, but I don’t think you’ll have much trouble fixing things
Thanks for posting the article.
Why does this gentleman feel like citizens should be forced into the “necessary acceptance” of anything?
WHY are they the elite? WHY are they the ones that determine what is acceptable or not? Isn’t that what has produced numerous horribly unacceptable kings and dictators throughout history? Isn’t that what has killed more people on the earth than anything else?
The nerve of these people. The only thing that’s “necessarily acceptable” is individual freedom and the progress of responsible and educated citizens. Anything less is unacceptable.