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zögert, umso teurer wird die Verkehrswende einer Studie zufolge. "Politisches Zögern hat einen Preis", heißt es in der Analyse der Agora Verkehrswende, einer gemeinnützigen Organisation für wissenschaftliche Politikberatung. Dieser bemesse sich entweder in Geld oder in Treibhausgasen, mit all den damit verbundenen Risiken. Mit einer zeitnahen ambitionierten Klimapolitik für den Verkehrssektor...
"Ein wesentlicher Grund sind Ohnmachtsgefühle" In einer Welt mit vielen komplexen Problemen fühlen sich viele Menschen nicht mehr von demokratischen Parteien repräsentiert, sagt Politikwissenschaftler Merkel. Gewalt gegen Politiker fungiere dabei als eine Art Selbstermächtigung. tagesschau.de: Politiker mehrerer Parteien wurden jetzt in den vergangenen Tagen angegriffen. Sehen wir ein neues...
to “unabated coal-fired power generation”. This means: Coal-fired power plants that are supplemented by CO2 capture and storage technology (CCS) are not affected. Although scientists repeatedly criticize that such formulations are far too vague, the G7 refrains from becoming more specific. What remains unclear is: What proportion of CO2 emissions must...
Why so long? Thomas Kraus: We have known for a very long time that there are connections between pesticide exposure at work and Parkinson's disease. But it was extremely difficult to evaluate and process the scientific literature from around the world and then derive criteria for an occupational disease for German social law. Parkinson's disease has been around in France since 2012...
Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
a largely constant alternating current. The research team has now investigated whether a rapid change in power supply and breaks can increase the lifespan of the batteries. To do this, the scientists exposed various type 18650 lithium-ion batteries to either standard constant charging cycles or high-frequency pulsed charging. In the latter, the tension changed with the...
can be counteracted by wonderfully progressive-sounding terms like “climate justice” or “transformation”. People from social movements, trade unions, science and other areas of society have brought together knowledge and experiences in a joint effort. The result is a book about climate justice and the path to achieving it - the...
Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany
Considers the letter of responsibility to be genuine Terror expert Peter Neumann from King's College in London considers the terrorist militia's letter of responsibility for the attack near Moscow to be genuine... * Climate protection | Science | Refugees Quaschning's video column Quaschning explains: AfD and climate protection The AfD wants to abolish all climate protection laws. The climate crisis is already a main cause of flight...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
from the University of Tübingen. She suspects that the glyphosate trail leads to our washing machines. More specifically: the detergent we use. The Tübingen scientist's research is still being examined, but doubts are already beginning to arise. Pay attention to the ingredients of the detergents If you want to know whether your detergent contains phosphonates, you should take a look...
in World War II said... * Renewables | Fossils | Electricity prices | Nuclear power expert Kemfert in an interview: Operators of nuclear power plants no longer want the energy either. Economist Claudia Kemfert speaks in an FR interview about the delayed departure from fossil fuels and electricity prices that are too high. She is calling for help for the German solar industry. Ms. Kemfert, the...
find signs that the climate system as a whole could be in transition. The mean ocean temperature, for example, has recently made a huge jump. We scientists hope that this is just a short-term blip and that the system will “calm down” again. But there is also the possibility that the giant is not yet fully understood...
Truche and his team monitored hydrogen leaks in the mine for years. The result: “At least 200 tons of hydrogen are released in the mine every year,” report the scientists. “However, these outgassing rates are minimum values that are based solely on what is measured at specific points - not an extrapolation to the entire volume. We only have a fraction of the total...
how the industry is developing and how it can be strengthened beyond subsidies in areas such as digitalization and de-bureaucratization... * Plastic | Waiver | CO2 emissions Science calls for a radical departure from conventional plastic production 50 percent less plastic by 2050, from nine to 95 percent Recycling rate: In order to solve the global plastic problem, the system must...
Decay processes per second, in Becquerels 37 GBq. After the 1965 accident, not much data is available on wind patterns, precipitation, etc., but after the 1970 accident, Livermore Lab scientists found elevated tritium levels that they linked to the 1970 accident, as far away as Fresno, in southeast about 200 miles away. Translation with...
Radvan told the German Press Agency on Saturday. The strategy of linguistic concealment has a long tradition in the extreme right. The well-known linguist and literary scholar Victor Klemperer - Holocaust survivor - analyzed this approach during the Nazi regime... * Peasant protests | bureaucracy | Vehicle tax before the final rally at...
Application submitted in May 2021. They called on the state to revoke the planning approval decision from 2002. Their reasoning: Schacht Konrad does not correspond to the current state of science and technology. Important aspects such as the long-term safety of the shaft and retrieval were not taken into account in the planning approval decision... * Compensation | Monsanto | PCB...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
widely attached... * Climate Change | Oil companies | Record profits Naomi Oreskes: "They won't go down without a fight" The oil companies foresaw climate change five decades ago. Science historian Naomi Oreskes has researched what the industry knew and how it publicly denied it. What does she think of the climate summit in the oil emirate of Dubai? DIE ZEIT: Ms. Oreskes, 2023 is...
While the peace movement has become somewhat quiet, security policy remains a central issue of public interest. Security policy issues are no longer the exclusive preserve of scientists, politicians or military experts... * Emissions trading | land rights | Blue Carbon area larger than the United Kingdom Sheikh buys African...
Powerlessness joins environmental powerlessness. There is this strange feeling in Austria that somehow everything will be okay. This is a bold bet, to say the least. There is no scientific evidence for this. According to the UN, the world is heading towards a warming of 3 degrees Celsius. Then things will probably get uncomfortable in Austria too. * Climate policy | Fridays for Future |...
Intermediate storage for decades. The search is for the “best possible” location, a place for the highly radioactive legacies of the atomic age. The search has been going on for five years, using a “science-based and transparent process” that the federal and state governments had agreed on. The law states that the suitable location must be found by 2031. The final storage facility would then have to be built...
Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?
to October 31 this year were the hottest consecutive months on record. This is according to an analysis by Climate Central, an independent group of scientists and communicators that researches and reports on the facts about climate change and its impact on people's lives. The temperatures were therefore...
