[hutzlibu]

"This made me think of the Ukraine war, and how the sanctions may turn out to be a bigger help to climate crisis than any political entity could muster on the basis of the impeding climate snafu."

Huh? Here in germany there is talk by politicians that climate policies have to stand back now and we need to rely more on the coal plants and not close them, as it was planned.

I really hope, that the actual solutions will be more renewables and nuclear, but I am a bit pessimistic about it.

[throwaway_sb666]

Germany is in a very tough spot energy-wise and is the most impacted by the Russian sanctions. A lot of house heating is gas and that isn't something you can change in 6 month. So in the very short term they probably need coal to replace the gas where possible so that stockpiles can meet next winters demand for heating.

But for medium-term, a lot of infrastructure investment will be needed. Times are such that the public will be quick to condemn investment in fossil energy, so there will be pressure to find green solutions where feasible.

The other day I saw a headline that France had stopped subsidizing gas heating installations. I don't get why it took a Russian war to do that, but apparently it did.

There have been many other such headlines. Will it matter? Probably some, maybe a lot... one can hope.

Edit: or maybe the opposite. who knows