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Nuclear Power Accidents
This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of the civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only came to the public in a roundabout way...
Excerpt for this month:
02 December 1949 (INES 4 NAMS 3,8) Nuclear factory Hanford, USA
05 December 1965 (Broken Arrow) Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, USA
06 December 1972 (INES 3 NAMS 1,6) nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
07 December 1975 (INES 3) Greifswald, GDR
10 December 1994 (INES 2) Pickering, ON, CAN
21 December 1972 (INES ? Class.?) Pawling, USA
31 December 1978 (INES 4) Beloyarsk, USSR
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19. December
Last Generation | Protest | police cost
Last Generation Protests:
Blocking becomes even more expensive
The state measures against climate activists are becoming more massive. The police in Munich now want to charge you for carrying them away.
The activists of the last generation will soon also have to pay police costs in Munich if the sticker is removed from the street and they are carried away or led away. This was announced by the Munich police on Sunday. The legal basis for this is, among other things, the Bavarian Police Costs Ordinance, a spokesman told the taz ...
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New performance record 2022
Electricity from bioenergy overtakes nuclear power in Germany
The importance of nuclear energy in Germany will continue to decline in 2022, even the bioenergy plants are now producing more base load electricity than the last three nuclear power plants. On December 17.12.022, XNUMX, the bioenergy plants in Germany also set a new performance record (all-time high).
Last Saturday, bioenergy plants with an output of over 5.200 MW were connected to the grid in Germany and fed electricity into the German grid, more power plant output than ever before. At the same time, the three nuclear power plants in Germany that were still in operation with only around 3.700 MW were connected to the grid ...
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France | Flamanville | costs increased
Further delay in the commissioning of the EPR in Flamanville
The loading of fuel elements into the EPR reactor Flamanville 3 in France has again been delayed by at least six months. The estimated cost at the time of completion increases by an additional EUR500 million (US$530 million), EDF said.
In an update on December 16, EDF announced that the loading of the fuel elements, which was previously planned for the second quarter of 2023, is now planned for the first quarter of 2024.
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The company also announced that the estimated cost of completing the facility has increased from €12,7 billion to €13,2 billion...
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consultant policy | lobbyist | Lobbyregister
The Dark Side of Consulting:
Why many consultants in Berlin are also lobbyists
Consultants and lobbyists are usually easy to tell apart. But if you take a closer look, you will find more similarities and mixtures than you would like. Many consultants therefore have to register in the lobby register
The links between advice, lobbying and politics are diverse, but unfortunately often opaque.
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Conclusion: Consultants engage in lobbying
So yes: Consultants are – if you follow this line of thinking and want to put it bluntly – lobbyists. Or to put it another way and to put it more bluntly: In the case of consulting companies that support federal ministries from the sub-departmental management level upwards in the form of expert advice, it is likely that they meet the characteristics of a lobbyist within the meaning of the Lobby Register Act and have to register there ...
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Nature Conservation | Biodiversity | World Nature Summit
Summit agrees on nature conservation agreement
At the World Conservation Summit, the participants agreed on a new UN nature conservation agreement. Around 200 countries have set themselves the goal of protecting at least 30 percent of land and sea areas by 2030.
After around two weeks of negotiations, the participants at the World Nature Summit in Montreal, Canada, have agreed on a final declaration. Around 200 countries set themselves the goal of protecting at least 30 percent of the world’s land and sea areas by 2030. They also want to spend more money on protecting biodiversity. Among other things, richer countries are to give poorer countries around 2025 billion dollars annually by 20.
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Nature Conservation Union is critical of the agreement
The nature conservation association NABU, on the other hand, reacted with disillusionment to the agreement. Despite progress in substance, the agreement is not enough to stop or reverse the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems. "The world is racing towards an abyss in the natural and climate crisis," warned NABU President Jörg-Andreas Krüger. "But instead of braking decisively, she just slows down a bit."
Among other things, NABU criticized the lack of measurable goals that could stop the loss of biodiversity through agriculture, fisheries and trade ...
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eco system | Economy | Nature
Monetization of ecosystem services
Count on nature
Companies hardly consider the value of biodiversity in their investment decisions. That is set to change, but the issue is controversial at the UN Nature Summit in Montreal.
The number is impressive. More than half of the global gross domestic product depends on nature, i.e. on functioning, stable ecosystems. The Davos World Economic Forum 2020 had this determined in a study.
According to this, many economic sectors are dependent on good water quality, sustainably used forests, functioning pollination or the control of pathogens by nature, for example. When natural systems are destroyed, the construction sector is hit hardest, followed by agriculture and the food and beverage industry.
Experts estimate that by 2030 the collapse of ecosystems, such as the loss of pollinators in the agricultural sector or fish stocks, could cause global economic output to drop by 2,7 trillion US dollars. That's almost three percent...
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hydrogen production | Energy transition | Energy sources
Sound waves as an electrolysis turbo
High-frequency vibrations increase the hydrogen yield by a factor of 14
Good Vibrations: An amazingly simple tool could make hydrogen production more efficient. If you expose the electrolysis to high-frequency sound waves, the vibrations increase the hydrogen yield by a factor of 14, as an experiment has now shown. The reason: On the one hand, the acoustic sonication prevents the accumulation of disruptive gas bubbles on the electrodes. On the other hand, H2O molecules are shaken out of their compound, which facilitates water splitting.
"Green" hydrogen is considered an important component of the energy transition and a climate-friendly energy carrier. To obtain it, water molecules are broken down into oxygen and hydrogen in electrolysis systems. The energy required for this can be supplied by solar and wind power or direct sunlight. In order to increase the efficiency of these electrolysers, their electrodes are usually made of expensive platinum metals, and a strongly acidic or alkaline electrolyte solution is used - which leads to rapid corrosion of the systems.
Electrochemistry with vibrations
But there is another way ...
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18. December
Energy policy | Climate targets | LNG
Traffic light energy policy:
With speed in the wrong direction
The government inaugurated the first German liquefied gas terminal in record time. It's a shame that she doesn't show as much enthusiasm when it comes to climate protection.
If gas does come back now, do I still have to turn down the heating or take a lukewarm shower for a shorter time so as not to throw money down Putin's throat? The message emanating from the media hype about the inauguration of Germany's first liquid gas terminal in Wilhelmshaven is more than ambiguous.
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Those who are concerned about the climate would finally like to see the expansion of renewable energies really speed up. Instead, the LNG ship "Höegh Esperanza" now has permission until December 31, 2043 to convert deep-frozen gas into gaseous liquid gas - and thus takes the German climate goals ad absurdum ...
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Last Generation | Democracy | climate policy failure | Reichsbürger
Last generation and Reichsbürger:
The state-believing climate activists
The last generation literally takes the law seriously. In doing so, she exposes politics, which reacts in panic and absurdity.
It was of twisted symbolism: the raid on the Reich citizens was followed by a raid on climate activists of the last generation. This chain of events insinuates that terror threatens the state from right and left. In fact, however, it is exactly the other way around: nobody believes in the state as much as the last generation. The activists want to force the government to take its own laws seriously.
It seems long forgotten, but the last cabinet, Merkel, passed a climate protection law in 2021, according to which Germany should already be climate-neutral by 2045. You don't have to be a mathematician to immediately see that there are only 23 years left. Actually, speed would be the order of the day, but instead a lot of time is wasted. Not even a speed limit on German autobahns could be enforced...
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Corruption | EU Parliament | Social Democrats | Morocco
EU corruption case Eva Kaili: How "Qatargate" becomes a "Moroccogate".
According to the investigators, the secret service and ambassador of the authoritarian kingdom play a central role in the scandal.
The EU corruption scandal surrounding Eva Kaili, now often called "Katargate", is increasingly developing into a spy thriller and is given a whole new twist - not least because Eva Kaili's partner made a confession to the Belgian investigators. One thing is clear: the case is expanding.
The vice-president of the European Parliament and member of the Greek Social Democrats, who has since been ousted, is only the most prominent of the four people who have so far been arrested or who are under investigation as part of the investigation.
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"Scandal of the Social Democrats"
The fact that the investigators' documents were leaked to a Belgian and an Italian newspaper of all places has something to do with the fact that former MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri is at the center of the scandal.
But that also has to do with the fact that Panzeri is said to have bribed a number of other MPs, such as Belgian Marc Tarabella. Giorgi admitted this to investigators. Like many actors in the scandal, Tarabella is also a "socialist". This also applies to the Italian Andrea Cozzolino, whose name Kaili's partner also mentioned.
We are obviously dealing with a scandal that particularly affects the Social Democrats. That could explain their central political shift in relation to Morocco, but more on that below...
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Nuclear fusion | funding fusion research
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: More Appearance Than Reality
In a fusion experiment in California, more energy was extracted than was put in. That makes my physicist's heart beat faster. But it is not that easy.
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The energy to run the lasers was just dropped under the table. In fact, around 167 times more energy was used than was released in the end. And if there was a breakthrough, then it took place in August 2021, when it was possible for the first time ever to fuse atomic nuclei using laser fusion.
The merger itself has already been successful by others. At the Joint European Torus Facility JET in England late last year, cores were fused for five seconds using magnetic fusion.
Talking about a breakthrough that puts us on course for a fusion reactor is more PR for further research funding than reality. It's time to land...
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Energy transition | policy blocked | Farmers
Politicians are blocking the energy transition
Interest in photovoltaic open spaces in the southwest greater than permitted
The targeted expansion volume of 200 megawatts per year for PV open spaces in RLP was already completely exhausted in 2022. And in BW the borders are so tight that hardly any new solar parks are possible.
The demand for solar power from ground-mounted systems in Rheinland-Pfalz and Baden-Württemberg is there and many farmers would like to build, but the resistance and legal hurdles are great.
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When it comes to the urgently needed photovoltaic expansion, the south-west is not really getting anywhere. In terms of per capita construction, Baden-Württemberg has already slipped to 11th place in a federal state comparison (2021), as there was little construction, especially in the solar parks. If the 0,2 percent area target were to remain, this would not only have a negative impact on the security of supply in Baden-Württemberg, but would also ensure that the climate protection goals could not be achieved.
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17. December
Energy policy | Runtime | Nuclear fusion
"A nuclear power plant is not a Märklin railway"
There are two dangerous fantasies in German energy policy at the end of 2022: longer nuclear power plant operating times beyond April 15, 2023 and the new hope of nuclear fusion.
Both fantasy worlds are mainly nurtured by the FDP and parts of the Union parties who still haven't recognized or don't want to recognize the real chances of renewable energies. EnBW boss Georg Stamatelopoulos has just rejected the first fantasy, and the second is sheer and expensive dream of the future.
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Far more has been promised in fusion research than has been fulfilled. Because solar and wind energy are already unrivaled in terms of value. The EnBW boss also said in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "The most important thing is to quickly achieve our expansion targets for renewable energies."
For climate policy reasons, for technical reasons and for price reasons, there is no way around the rapid solar energy transition. The solution is in the sky. It means: solar energy, wind energy, solar hydrogen as a storage medium...
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Climate change | Disinformation | Twitter | Musk
polarization in social media
Climate disinformation is booming on Twitter
Lies and disinformation about climate change have skyrocketed on Twitter since Elon Musk took over the social media platform, according to one analysis. The boom in climate-skeptical content began in 2019.
If you enter the search term "climate" on Twitter, you will currently see "#ClimateScam" as the top result. The hashtag serves as a sort of catch-all for lies and disinformation about climate change. With shrill false claims, doubts are spread and climate protection measures are ridiculed.
There is talk of a "fictional catastrophe". The intention is to "stoke up fear and guilt in order to tax us and curtail our freedoms".
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As the study points out, the number of users who deny climate change and spread "anti-climate views" has by no means increased. Rather, it is a small minority that now acts even more extreme and louder, thus receiving more attention and thus pulling others along. Just ten Twitter accounts are currently responsible for a quarter of climate skeptical content...
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Nuclear fusion | nuclear weapons research | LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Two megajoules in, three megajoules out:
Why the successful nuclear fusion is a scientific but not yet a technological breakthrough
A nuclear fusion experiment in the USA has achieved a positive energy balance for the first time. However, anyone hoping for an early solution to our energy problems is wrong.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) director Kimberly Budil remained surprisingly honest even in the hour of success. The construction of an electricity-supplying nuclear fusion reactor is still decades away, the physicist said at a press conference on Tuesday.
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So far, energy production has only been a sideline of research
The National Ignition Facility is not the ideal place to advance the development of a commercial fusion reactor. This research facility reports to the National Nuclear Security Administration and is primarily used to simulate nuclear weapon explosions ...
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16. December
energy crisis | Flamanville | Mochovce | Olkiluoto
Power failure: Nuclear power plants are not helping the EU out of the energy crisis
The use of nuclear energy has been the subject of heated debate for decades, not least because of the energy crisis in the individual EU member states. The EU market for nuclear power plants is manageably small, with only three nuclear power plant projects currently under construction or about to be commissioned commercially. That won't change any time soon either.
In the European Union with its 27 member states, the three nuclear power plants Flamanville-3 (France), Olkiluoto-3 (Finland) and nuclear power plant Mochovce-3 (Slovakia) are currently in the construction or commissioning phase. However, none of the three projects has been a success story so far, and the respective cost and construction schedules could not even begin to be met. After the commissioning of these three nuclear power plants, there should be a long break of 10 to 15 years due to the long nuclear power plant construction times, during which not a single new nuclear power plant in the EU will be connected to the grid, but the current nuclear power plants are getting older and older...
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Whistleblower | intelligence services
Better protection for whistleblowers Bundestag votes for whistleblower law
Whistleblowers from authorities and companies are to be better protected in the future. The Bundestag decided that. However, this new regulation should have been implemented a year ago.
Anyone who points out abuse in their company or authority should be better protected against professional reprisals in the future. A law passed by the Bundestag stipulates that whistleblowers may not be disadvantaged after reporting; otherwise they can claim damages. The traffic light factions voted in favor, Union and AfD voted against, the left abstained. The law still has to go through the Bundesrat.
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The organization Transparency International Germany praised improvements, but still sees room for improvement. It is crucial that there should also be anonymous reporting channels in the future, explained Sebastian Oelrich from Transparency. However, in certain areas it is difficult for potential whistleblowers to assess whether they are protected or not...
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Media | Russia | NATO eastward expansion | negotiations
The Ignored Offer: Russia's Letters of December 17, 2021
A year ago, Russia reiterated that it would not accept NATO in Ukraine. The West refused to negotiate.
Western Ukraine reporting has not only had a number of white spots since the beginning of the war. Nobody in this country knows, for example, that as early as March 1997 – years before Vladimir Putin came to power – the West friend Boris Yeltsin made it clear to the then US President Bill Clinton in the run-up to the first eastward expansion of NATO, at the latest when the Ukraine would cross a red line for Russia. Apparently, this was already a security policy option in certain US circles at the time.
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What Russia Proposed to NATO...
On December 17, 2021, Russia sent NATO and the United States draft treaties that would set legally binding security guarantees for both sides. – Even from today's perspective, Russia's demands seem neither absurd nor unfulfillable:
Both sides should confirm that they do not see each other as opponents;
return to the principles of “equal and indivisible security”;
Refraining from using and threatening to use force;
and many more.
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Renewables: expansion is accelerating
More wind turbines and solar systems were connected to the grid worldwide in 2022 than expected. This trend continues. Why Germany should also invest more in renewables.
In Germany, the handbrake on renewable energy sources has still not been fully released, but worldwide expansion has picked up speed in 2022. This emerges from a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, which monitors the international energy markets there for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
According to this, governments have spent half a trillion US dollars on promoting clean electricity suppliers since March 2022 alone.
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In this country, meanwhile, the expansion of solar energy is gaining momentum again, which was abruptly choked off ten years ago by the black and yellow government at the time. According to figures from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems 2022, systems with a total output of 2022 GW have been installed so far in 5,5...
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15. December
biogas | price brake | skimming
Minister of Agriculture welcomes regulation for biogas at price brake
Lower Saxony's Minister of Agriculture, Miriam Staudte, welcomes the regulations for biogas in the Electricity and Gas Price Brake Act. It is good news that the skimming of electricity market revenues for biogas plants will only take effect from a rated output of one megawatt, the Green politician said in Hanover on Thursday. This means that most biogas plants are exempt from the skimming, she said. "Biogas plants are of great importance for the success of the energy transition," Staudte said. "Without them, we can hardly achieve our climate targets - so it is right to support them." The reference to rated output, she said, had been a key demand of her House to the federal government ...
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Nuclear waste | Castor | Repository
Grafenrheinfeld interim storage facility: Researchers are investigating what happens to nuclear waste in the containers over the long term
For many decades, castor containers are intended to protect against the rays of nuclear fuel elements. But can they do that for so long? As a project to find out now.
What happens to highly radioactive nuclear waste when it is stored in a Castor cask for 40 years? Nobody knows. The federal company for interim storage (BGZ), which is responsible for the disposal of the waste and operates the interim storage facilities at the German nuclear power plants (NPP), wants to find out whether and how the inner workings of the containers have changed over time. With a long-term research project, the goals of which the BGZ has now presented for the first time in Lower Franconia at an inter-communal council meeting in Schwebheim (district of Schweinfurt). The Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power station is also affected.
The motivation is not only the urge to research, but also plenty of practicality: the approval of the BZR interim storage facility in Grafenrheinfeld runs until 2046. Until then, there will be no repository in Germany for the thousands of years of radioactive residues. The BGZ is therefore planning to apply for an extension. As at the other interim storage locations, it will have to prove that the material is still safely enclosed in the steel casks. Because there are no empirical values so far ...
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Hydrogen | Namibia | Natural gas | Senegal
Germany's hunger for African hydrogen
Energy and climate - compact: Germany wants to have green hydrogen produced in the Namibian desert. Blue hydrogen is also to be used. Why this is not a good idea in terms of climate protection.
After all, the German federal government would not only like to import fossil natural gas from Senegal, as already mentioned on Telepolis, but also green hydrogen or green ammonia from Namibia. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will finance four German-Namibian hydrogen projects with around 2023 million euros from 30, and further billion-euro projects are in the pipeline.
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Hyphen wants to set up the production of green hydrogen on 4.000 square kilometers in the Tsau Khaeb National Park, with the aim of building five gigawatts of energy generation capacity and an electrolyser with three gigawatts of capacity and thus being able to produce 300.000 cubic tons of hydrogen a year.
This is the area where the former German colonial power mined diamonds, which gives the project a strange aftertaste, also given the insufficient compensation for the victims of the Herrero and Nama genocide. It is to be hoped that the 3.000 jobs promised by Hyphen, 90 percent of which will be filled by local workers, will remain ...
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sun wind | Hydrogen | SynFuel | North Africa
Could North Africa supply us with green hydrogen and SynFuels?
Study shows feasibility and potential for imported renewable fuels
The potential is there: In order to convert transport and industry to renewable energies, enormous amounts of green electricity, hydrogen and alternative fuels are required - too much to produce them completely in one's own country. However, appropriate plants in the Middle East and North Africa could offer a remedy. According to a study, more than 400.000 terawatt hours of solar and wind power could be generated there every year and energy sources could be obtained from it for less than two euros per liter - provided you invest.
Enormous amounts of green electricity, hydrogen and synthetic fuels are required for the energy transition and especially for the decarbonization of the high-emission sectors of transport and industry. But where do you get it? It is foreseeable that Germany will only be able to cover part of its future hydrogen and electricity requirements itself. On the other hand, there is significantly more potential where sun and wind are plentiful and can be cheaply converted into renewable energy sources ...
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Lingen fuel assemblies | Russia | Mikhail Dudin | Kazakhstan | China
Fuel rod export Lingen-Russia-Kazakhstan - the end customer is the Chinese nuclear company CGN
Russian uranium ship continues in Rotterdam - "Questionable deals" with China
As the "Spiegel" reports today, the French nuclear company Framatome has also embarked on "questionable deals" with China in the fuel element deal with Kazakhstan. The fuel rods from Lingen in Emsland will ultimately be used in Chinese nuclear power plants of the state-owned nuclear company CGN. But the US government "suspended" the export of "radioactive materials" to CGN in the fall of 2021 on suspicion of possible military activity. The responsible federal ministries of economics and foreign affairs did not want to comment on the nuclear deal to the "Spiegel".
Among other things, the "Spiegel" rightly raises the question of how this widespread nuclear deal with Russia, Kazakhstan and China fits in with the German government's "new China strategy"...
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Russia | Ukraine | nuclear weapon | Putin
Russia's state TV: Only the use of nuclear weapons leads to victory in the Ukraine war
According to a Russian commander, there is only one way Russia can still win the Ukraine war. You are not only at war with Ukraine, but with the whole West. "We don't have the resources to wage this war for much longer," Alexander Sergeyevich Khodakowski said on Russian state TV. The US news portals CNN and Newsweek, among others, report on this. "Everyone knows that the next stage in the spiral of escalation in the Ukraine war can only be the nuclear stage," said the leader of the internationally unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic.
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The Russian President himself has repeatedly ruled out the use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war. Only if Russia itself were to be attacked would a nuclear strike against the attacker be an option. In October, according to the AP news agency, Putin said that the use of nuclear weapons "makes no sense, neither politically nor militarily." ...
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Last Generation | Resistance | Democracy | climate policy failure
Criminalizing Last Generation Activists
The public prosecutor's office in Brandenburg, which is governed by the red-green-black government, is hitting excessively against the climate activists who are disrupting political operations. Radical, even peaceful and state-loyal opposition is not desired.
Shortly after the big one Raid against Reich citizens, who were planning to overthrow the government and were building a military arm to do so, raided the homes of “last generation” activists in five federal states. According to the group, the searches targeted XNUMX members, five of whom are already in preventive detention in prisons. There were no other arrests. Cell phones, laptops and posters were confiscated.
It is about extremely questionable investigations by the Neuruppin public prosecutor's office into the formation of or membership in a criminal organization under Section 129 of the Criminal Code. This is an association formed to commit crimes. The accusation is not explicitly directed against the sit-ins on streets and airports, but against actions in April and May, when activists tried to disrupt the operation of the refinery PCK Schwedt (Uckermark) by turning off valves and sticking themselves to plants.
After Bavaria exhausted the preventive detention of some activists of the last generation and in Munich, which was governed by the red-green government, a presumably contestable general decree banned sit-ins without registration, in which activists tape themselves or otherwise fasten themselves (Red-Green in Munich bans climate adhesive campaigns of the last generation), so now came the next blow.
The "well-fortified democracy" defends itself against the annoying blockers and reminders and wants to criminalize their quite peaceful resistance in order to be able to lock them away. The authorities know that the majority of citizens are behind them, and politicians have already identified the activists as chaotic, criminals and terrorists. One should not necessarily have expected the step towards investigating a criminal organization, but the political pressure to push ahead with the criminalization of climate policy protests was evidently high. A red-black-green coalition governs in Brandenburg. As is well known, public prosecutors in Germany are not politically independent, but can be used as an instrument. The fact that an action from a long time ago was used shows that the criminalization of the current actions would not have gotten very far and that suitable incidents had therefore been sought.
The investigation is questionable at all, because the group may commit criminal offenses such as trespassing or coercion, but these are not the goal like in a criminal organization, but to draw attention to the urgent concern of climate protection. The protests are anything but hostile to the state; on the other hand, they are out to persuade the state, which is recognized as a democratic representative, to act - also citing a constitutional court ruling that attested politicians a lack of willingness to act.
For the last generation, who protested peacefully, albeit annoyingly with sit-ins and other actions, that politicians now had to act quickly, for which the introduction of a speed limit of 100 km/h and the 9-euro ticket was tactically clever first steps required, the procedure is probably not inconvenient. It makes the climate activists persecuted and a kind of martyr for the good cause.
Therein lies the possibility that members or followers of the group will become radicalized, which does not happen of their own accord, but rather as a reaction to the government's actions, which are now apparently taking a tough approach - possibly because the activists are demonstrating that climate protection is politically pursued but only half-heartedly and especially in times of war with recourse to fossil fuels and undermining environmental protection, making it likely that both the 1,5 and the two-degree targets will be missed. In the German government, the FDP in particular is holding the brakes, which also stubbornly cling to the fetish of free travel for cars and wants to build more autobahns.
The Last Generation claims there is now a 2-3 year window to prevent climate tipping points that will usher in a "hostile hot season." That's where it gets apocalyptic. You see yourself at a “unique point in time in human history”. You can argue about that, but criminal prosecution is simply excessive.
"We knew that the state would not simply accept that we publicize its failures every day," write the activists. “For a year we have seen attempts at intimidation, attempts to stop our actions, attempts to silence us. We were insulted, sentenced, imprisoned. With the investigation into the formation of a criminal organization, this reaches a new level. Germany is a democracy. The prerequisite for the democratic process is the possibility to assemble freely and publicly, to unite as a group and also to resist. If this principle is criminalized, it threatens the foundations of democracy.”
The authorities want to intimidate them and monitor them more freely. You won't give up, even if you're locked up: "But isn't it absurd that peaceful people are being investigated here while the real criminals are pouring out millions in profits and sending this country into decline?"
Fridays for Future are now showing solidarity with the last generation against the state attacks: "We strongly condemn the raids that are currently being carried out on activists of the #last generation. This criminalization of climate protests is disproportionate and dangerous.” The Center for Political Beauty, like many others, also: “The state brings out the heaviest artillery: preventive detention and now 129a. The police become the henchmen of the fossil and motoring lobby. Stop criminalization! Full solidarity with those affected!”
As usual, the AfD exults and escalates when it speaks of “asphalt terrorists”. Cicero makes fun of the "land of toad fences" instead of talking about the extinction of species: "We shouldn't be surprised about the phenomenon of the last generation: the younger generation is showered with doomsday scenarios in schools and in the media every day. "Five to twelve" has become a permanent condition." The indoctrination is to blame, according to the refusal to think about a system that endangers nature and the climate. The doomsday scenario is not only cultivated by blinded young people, but contrary to political scientists and journalists by numerous scientists based on studies and simulations.
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reaktorpleite.de
Map of the nuclear world:
Peaceful climate activists and armed, coup-ready enemies of the state in one sack and always on it?
Something is totally wrong here!
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Keyword Search: fail Climate policy documentary
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Nature friends Germany
December 21, 2012 - The failure of politics in climate change
The national chairman of the Friends of Nature in Germany, Michael Müller, explains the crisis of global climate protection:
Global climate change is also a sign of political failure. Because in case of doubt, growth interests are more important and stronger than ecological reason, because national interests are more decisive than international solidarity, because climate change seems to be further away in industrialized countries than in the ecologically sensitive regions of the so-called Third World, because of the contradiction between short-term successes and longer-term reforms, ecological modernization is not progressing ...
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Research history of climate change
The history of climate change research describes the discovery and study of climate change events over geological and historical time scales, including global warming that has occurred since the 20th century. The systematic study of natural climate changes began in the first half of the 19th century with the gradual reconstruction of Ice Age cycles and other climate-related environmental changes within the framework of paleoclimatology and Quaternary research. Human influences on the Earth's climate system via greenhouse gases were suspected as early as the end of the 19th century, but corresponding calculations were strongly doubted until the 1960s. Detailed descriptions of the research history of climate change, in particular of the anthropogenic climate change that could be determined over the course of the 20th century, can be found, for example, in Chapter 1 of the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC and in more detail by the US physicist and historian of science Spencer R. Weart. A German-language elaboration based on the work of Spencer Weart can be found on the Skeptical Science homepage.
While the greenhouse effect was discovered as early as 1824, the climate-warming effect of the steadily increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere could only be quantified towards the end of the 1950s thanks to improved measurement methods and a broader database. Although some scientists found that human-caused air pollution could also cool the climate, climate researchers increasingly favored the assumption of warming from the mid-1970s onwards. In the 1990s, with advanced computer models and a deeper understanding of glacial periods, the following consensus emerged: Greenhouse gases play a major role in climate change, and human-caused emissions are the primary contributors to ongoing global warming...
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