{"id":31282,"date":"2023-06-13T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=31282"},"modified":"2023-06-13T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:30:17","slug":"why-energy-is-becoming-less-reliable-and-less-affordable-all-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/06\/13\/why-energy-is-becoming-less-reliable-and-less-affordable-all-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Energy Is Becoming Less Reliable\u2014and Less Affordable\u2014All Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the book Green Tyranny<\/em><\/a>\u2014a fantastic history of the environmental alarmism movement\u2014author Rupert Darwall lays responsibility for the beginning of this movement at the feet of the Germans and the Swedes.<\/p>\n

In 1967, a Swedish scientist<\/a> published the first ever \u201ctheory\u201d on acid rain. Four years later, Bert Bolin, a Swede who would go on to chair the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), wrote the first-ever government report<\/a> on acid rain.<\/p>\n

It was a typical government report. Ninety pages long, it starts out with certainty: \u201cThe emission of sulfur into the atmosphere . . . has proved to be a major environmental problem.\u201d Fifty pages later, however, Bolin admits to some doubt when he says, \u201cIt is very difficult to prove that damage . . . has in fact occurred.\u201d Nevertheless, the government report concludes decisively, \u201cA reduction in the total emissions both in Sweden and in adjacent countries is required<\/strong>\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n