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Climate zealots’ net-zero push dies a quiet death — and not a moment too soon

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What a difference a few years make.

Not long ago, politicians said climate change was going to kill us, so we must move to “net zero” emissions. 

This is theoretically possible: Since vegetation removes carbon, we could get to net zero by burning fewer fossil fuels.

Governments everywhere pledged to do just that.

President Joe Biden and European leaders promised “net zero by 2050.”

For a while, it seemed like it might happen.

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Jay Leno’s bid to save vintage rides from California’s smog cops

Spain invested billions in its solar-power grid; Germany claimed to get most of its power from renewables.

But now they realize that they made a mistake.  

European businesses closed as electricity costs rose — and last year, Spain’s electricity supply shut down for 16 hours.

It was a wake-up call for the green dream.

“The power outages are the starkest illustration of bad electricity policy,” said Alex Epstein, author of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.”

“You can avoid power outages with these bad policies. What you can’t avoid........

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