The skeptical environmentalist himself, Bjorn Lomborg, reports at Slate that despite the fact that "Germany once prided itself on being the 'photovoltaic world champion,'" now "Germany is cutting solar-power subsidies because they are expensive and inefficient." These statistics are incisive:

"Moreover, this sizeable investment does remarkably little to counter global warming. Even with unrealistically generous assumptions, the unimpressive net effect is that solar power reduces Germany's CO₂ emissions by roughly 8 million metric tons-or about 1 percent - for the next 20 years. To put it another way: By the end of the century, Germany's $130 billion solar panel subsidies will have postponed temperature increases by 23 hours.

Using solar, Germany is paying about $1,000 per ton of CO₂ reduced. The current CO₂price in Europe is $8. Germany could have cut 131 times as much CO₂ for the same price. Instead, the Germans are wasting more than 99 cents of every euro that they plow into solar panels."

So even if one accepts the Greens' logic, they have managed to squander hundreds of billions in taxpayer and electricity ratepayer money in North America and Europe with little or no projected benefit to the "climate crises."  With the likes of Al Gore (mis)guiding government, is it any wonder that we are in a prolonged economic decline?