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

[FBaggins]

22. It remains to be seen?

it remains to be seen whether Germany will increase its consumption of coal power in the process ...

It's exactly what has been happening (despite protestations to the contrary). What "remains to be seen" is whether or not they can stem the bleeding any time soon.

You can play games with strawmen about whether individual plants were a response to one thing or another... but coal plants really aren't a problem... it's the coal they burn.

And there's no way to dodge that (just as predicted - despite your strawmen to the contrary) their consumption of coal is up dramatically as a direct result of the nuclear shutdown.

They are on track with their infrastructure to meet those goals.

Nice (and so artfully crafted) spin. They were well ahead of "on track" until their 2011 error. They've only gone backwards since then.

edited wrong post