Is that the yearly Europe will freeze without Russian gas event?

Most of this pathetic fearmongering, based on the terror of a cold spell in the middle of winter is just fun geopolitical fiction. We can all imagine EU has no gas reserves suddenly, or ended last two winters with 80% capacity just for fun. In this world Ukraine that did not signal their plans for the last two years, apparently just did so to sabotage its backers, the goofy trolls they are. Jamal and Turkstream pipelines had just disappeared, as such installations do, to which this energy "expert" could surly attest. In the meantime LNG technology has been rightfully forgotten. And so if EU wanted to buy Russian gas it cant for the wretched Ukraine forbids it... Obviously issues like the fact Russia shut down Nordstream before it had it's smoking incident should not concern us. There was not a single decade of gas blackmail of any of these soon frostpunk-turned states. Winter is a brand new concept in this part of Europe, and no one ever considered its strategic implications here, that is before the author of this thin-piece.

But the detachment from reality trophy is won by the claim of marvelous straight up climate denial;

Europe has seen consistently colder temperatures on average since 2016.

Honestly it's hard to even make fun of such utter bullshit. Where does that even come from?

Global mean temperature between 2013 and 2023 was 1.19 to 1.22°C warmer than the pre-industrial level, which makes it the warmest decade on record. European land temperatures have increased even faster over the same period by 2.12 to 2.19°C, depending on the dataset used.

EEA: Global and European temperatures, Published 26 Jun 2024