Merkel’s Green Shift (sic) Backfires as German Pollution Jumps

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8. Then you've gone round the bend.

You need to take a look at the predictions for their solar/wind growth over the next decade and compare it to the amount they've already built... then compare the generation from everything they have so far... then compare that to the amount of generation from the nuclear plants that they have yet to shut down.

There's no way that they reduce their carbon emissions from 2011 for many years to come.

Yes, I am perfectly willing to see two years where they have a minor increase in carbon

It won't be for just two years... and it's far from minor.

On edit - just to help out with that required research... Germany produced 44.3 TWh from wind/solar in the first half of this year (down several percent from the same period last year... and a two-year decline for wind despite all the new capacity). Nuclear power (after the shutdowns) produced 46 TWh.

So over the next eight years or so... they need to duplicate all of their wind/solar success to date (even ignoring any demand growth) just to break even.