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    gab die UNO bekannt, dass bis etwa 2050 über eine Million Tier- und Pflanzenarten unwiederbringlich verschwinden werden Auch heute werden wir wieder 150 Millionen Tonnen Treibhausgase in die Atmosphäre emittieren Die Wüsten um 80.000 Hektar vergrößern 50.000 Tonnen fruchtbaren Boden verlieren Und etwa eine Viertel Million Menschen mehr werden. Und am selben Tag werden ungefähr 20.000 Menschen...

  2. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    The catastrophic accident of INES level 4 occurred in reactor 7 of Chernobyl, in which large amounts of radioactive substances were released into the environment and the atmosphere following a core meltdown and hydrogen explosions... Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) Nuclear accidents In the History of the civil use of nuclear energy, there have been serious accidents in nuclear...

  3. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    the manure from 450 bulls and old straw from the stable. Manure and manure release methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate, but also carbon dioxide. Without the biogas plant, the gases would escape into the atmosphere and have their effect there. They are then converted into electricity in an adjacent combined heat and power plant. When the gas obtained is burned, CO₂ is also released into the environment; this...

  4. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    · The greenhouse gas methane has around 80 times as much effect on global warming as CO2. Using satellite images, environmental experts discover how much of the climate-damaging gas is escaping into the atmosphere. According to a study, emissions of climate-damaging methane from open-cast brown coal mining in Germany are significantly higher than expected. As shown in the study by German Environmental Aid...

  5. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Seversk, Tomsk-7, former Soviet Union 1993 On April 6, 1993, overpressure occurred in a tank containing a solution of 8.773 kg of uranium and 310 g of plutonium, which then exploded. "Radioactive particles thrown into the atmosphere contaminated an area of ​​over 120 square kilometers. Numerous villages had to be evacuated and are permanently uninhabitable. The people are still suffering today...

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    of the reactor core and the infamous meltdown. The reactor's protective jacket withstood the enormous pressure, but for a few days large amounts of radioactive particles escaped into the atmosphere and contaminated the environment in the form of radioactive fallout... Wikipedia Reaktorunfall_im_Nuclear power plant_Three_Mile_Island Reactor accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant The reactor accident...

  7. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    shares and instead relies on freedom, progress and science? Hello? Has anyone there ever talked to someone reputable from science? The more carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, the less infrared radiation reaches space from Earth. This is completely banal physics and not hysteria. The result: The sun continues to heat up the earth. And you will...

  8. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    Öko-Institut on behalf of the environmental organization WWF. The list is headed by BASF in Ludwigshafen. The plant will release by far the most CO5,9 into the atmosphere, with 2022 million tons in 2. In total, the twelve largest plants released 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air. [...] At 40 percent, power plants account for the largest share of air pollution...

  9. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    at Level 3. In addition, there were known intentional releases of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere over long periods of time in the 1950s and 1960s... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain There are comparable nuclear plants all over the world:...

  10. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    | CO2 | Rocks store greenhouse gases in the fields? Yes, it works. A long-term experiment shows that if basalt dust is scattered over fields, significant amounts of CO₂ can be removed from the atmosphere. Farmers should also benefit from the idea. The Earth has a natural waste disposal system for carbon dioxide. In order to remove the climate-damaging greenhouse gas from the atmosphere,...

  11. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    Small lakes border the industrial area on both sides. Liquid natural gas is processed here and loaded onto tankers. Time and time again, the work is done uncleanly. Dangerous gases escape into the atmosphere: benzene, carcinogenic. Pentane, highly flammable. Methane is many times more harmful to the climate than CO₂. Liquefied natural gas is sent all over the world from the terminal in the southern United States...

  12. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    refers to a long-term period and not a single year. This means: In the long term, greenhouse gases must be significantly reduced (climate neutrality) and removed from the atmosphere again in the longer term (climate positivity). Technically both are possible. We just have to do it. [...] The German solar industry is doing badly. The most important players such as Meyer-Burger,...

  13. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    Routine and Accidental Releases of Tritium During its fifty-three years of operation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Livermore site released an estimated 29.300 TBq of tritium into the atmosphere; about 75% of it was accidentally released as gaseous tritium in 1965 and 1970. Routine emissions contributed just over 3.700 TBq of gaseous...

  14. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    The sum is the same, but they fall less evenly - the summers are becoming drier, the winters are becoming wetter. The current flood crisis is an example of this. In addition, it is generally true that a warmer atmosphere can absorb more moisture, and of course it has to release it again. It has long been advisable to prepare better for floods. But a lot is happening so far...

  15. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    individual floods cannot be explained by climate change. This is also emphasized by the “Monitoring Report 2023” on the German climate adaptation strategy published in November. Atmospheric conditions and general weather conditions that favor floods show too much variability for this. However, the report presented by the Federal Environment Agency also states: Global warming can...

  16. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    become drier. Man-made climate change is once again responsible for this, as an international research team reports in the journal “Nature Geoscience”. The drier atmosphere has clear consequences for European nature and agriculture; it leads to more frequent droughts and increases the risk of forest fires. The trend continues With a new approach...

  17. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    Negative emissions Blue Carbon: Carbon in paradise Seagrass beds off the Bahamas store significant amounts of CO2, a new study finds. Without removing CO2 from the atmosphere, the 1,5 degree target can no longer be achieved. Both natural and technical approaches have advantages and disadvantages. Behind the promising name Blue Carbon - blue carbon -...

  18. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    developed protective circuits - the reactor is switched off... Wikipedia Biblis nuclear power plant When the reactor was started up, a valve that has to shut off a connecting line to the reactor circuit, which is under 150 times atmospheric pressure, got stuck and remained open. It was only after 15 hours that the operating staff took the lighting warning lamp seriously; they thought the control logic of the lamp was...

  19. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    at Level 3. In addition, there were known intentional releases of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere over long periods of time in the 1950s and 1960s... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain There are comparable nuclear plants all over the world:...

  20. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    LoK integrated as part of the selection process shows once again that the BGZ was not interested in finding the safest and most economical solution to the problem of nuclear waste disposal..." * Atmosphere | Elon Musk | SpaceX SpaceX: Scientists worried - rockets are tearing "atmospheric holes “ in sky It is a visually impressive form of an aurora created by falling...

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