1. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    The acquisitions, commonly known as 'Mile Swindle', earned Lüderitz the nickname "Lieutenfritz" early on... * Fossil fuels receive subsidies for even more CO2 emissions Scandal: 70 billion euros in tax money for fossil instead of renewable energies The German state subsidy is per ton CO2 higher than the emissions trading price, while renewables are mostly empty...

  2. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    belong, explodes. The richest countries consume the most energy, consume the most resources and destroy the environment the most. Just other techniques for a problem like CO2 emissions wouldn't make much difference to the overall overshoot. And for Rees, part of too much is population growth, which will slow down, but according to the forecasts...

  3. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    Climate law Germany will significantly miss the climate targets for 2030 The Federal Environment Agency is publishing the 2023 projection report today. According to this, Germany will exceed the CO2030 emissions permitted by 2 by up to 331 million tons. At the same time, the Climate Expert Council presents its assessment of the government's climate protection program. The media in Germany has been waiting for weeks...

  4. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    Release of and exposure to radioactivity, which has led to increased cases of (lung) cancer in the history of uranium mining. Opponents of nuclear power criticize the fact that CO2 emissions from uranium mining are not taken into account when considering the ecological balance of nuclear energy. In Australia, Aboriginal people living near uranium mining sites have a strikingly high incidence of cancer. Also...

  5. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    On average, emissions trading prices in 2022 were only 80 euros per ton. How is climate protection ever supposed to work if the subsidies are higher than the costs for the CO2 emission certificates? You don't hear anything about this from the FDP, which says it is always committed to reducing state subsidies... * Lubmin | Nuclear waste barrels | Corrosion When dismantling in...

  6. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    Well-meaning critics agreed that it was clumsy to say the least. Merz unnecessarily sparked a new debate about the CDU's dealings with the AfD... * Earth Overload Day | Resources | CO2 emissions Earth Overload Day 2023 On August 2nd, the world had already used up its ecological resources for the entire year. The earth has been overexploited for more than 50 years now. CO2 emissions make...

  7. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    was an incorrect adjustment of the electronic position indicator on the valve during the inspection in 2006. This was not noticed until the inspection in 2007. July 21st Road construction | CO2 emissions Petroleum-free asphalt This new material could change road construction worldwide The road construction market leader Strabag wants to reduce its CO2 balance with a newly developed asphalt binder...

  8. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    particularly the burning of petroleum, natural gas and coal. This puts the disaster country Canada itself in focus as the culprit. Not only because Canada is one of the heaviest emitters in the world with around 15 tons of annual per capita CO2 emissions, but also because of its high production of natural gas and crude oil, including for LNG export plans to Germany. With it...

  9. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    has actually already fallen by a third since Lula's term in office. However, it has not been proven whether there is a direct connection to the government's actions... * Switzerland | CO2 emissions | CCS CCS in the cement industry Swiss carbon dioxide is being shipped to Iceland It sounds like a megalomaniacal plan: Swiss scientists want to reduce CO2 emissions from...

  10. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    Microplastics in the human body pose health risks. And the production of plastics, which is currently around 400 million tons annually worldwide, is accompanied by enormous CO2 emissions... May 28th France | Climate change | Groundwater | Drought France fears a new summer of drought The country is trying to prepare for the consequences of climate change, but not...

  11. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    Degrees Celsius can be expected." This may seem a bit contrived at first glance, but it is quite logical. The scientific basis of the study is the CO2 budget, i.e. the amount of CO2 emissions that the world can still afford to produce not to exceed a certain temperature level... * Shell | Oil production | Cleanup Nigeria: Shell leaves, the oil pollution remains After 60...

  12. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    There are 56 reactors running there, which in recent years have supplied an average of around two thirds of the electricity consumed, which is also used for heating in many households... * CO2 emissions | CO2 removal | CCS | Cement New plant will process CO2 from cement factory The production of cement produces more CO2 than air traffic and data centers combined. To have to...

  13. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    has increased rapidly since 2010. The destructive effect on the ozone layer is still small, but these CFCs heat up the climate: their greenhouse effect corresponds to that of Switzerland's total CO2 emissions. Since the Montreal Protocol of 1987, the production and release of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have been banned worldwide. This has also been the case since 2010...

  14. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    “The physicists” were very influential. As a scientist, it is my duty to point out dangers. I can't watch the world go to ruin! * Climate crisis | Climate policy | CO2 emission | political will New meaning of climate policy: enabling adaptation The findings in the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report represent a turning point. The meaning of climate policy is now...

  15. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Stefan Rahmstorf: People see that politicians have not yet effectively countered climate change. The decisive measure for this are global greenhouse gases, especially CO2 emissions. And as we know, they continue to rise. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just reported that global subsidies for fossil fuel consumption will rise to over...

  16. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    "Thanks to the outstanding growth of renewable energies, electric vehicles, heat pumps and energy-efficient technologies," said IEA boss Fatih Birol. Without clean energy, CO2 emissions would have increased almost three times... " to be detained indefinitely without evidence The journalist Pablo González is...

  17. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    in the fight against the West, especially since the beginning of the war of aggression against Ukraine. To this end, Moscow is trying to put itself at the forefront of the anti-colonial movement... * Hydrogen | CO2 emission | Climate-neutral industry Decarbonization of the economy From gray to green steel A climate-neutral industry in Germany should be built primarily through green lead markets, advises...

  18. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    be this approximately as high as ten x-rays within an hour - or the amount of natural radiation to which a person is exposed over a whole year... *** January 27th CO2 emissions | compensation | CO2 certificate license to pollute More and more companies want to compensate for climate-damaging emissions. Such CO2 certificates can ease your conscience, but...

  19. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    the think tank Agora Energiewende, which presented its report on the Federal Republic's CO2 emissions on Wednesday. Director Simon Müller spoke of it as an “alarm signal” that CO2 emissions were stagnating “at a high level” – “despite significantly lower energy consumption in households and industry”. So what's the problem? Among other things, in the transport sector, which is "clearly" behind...

  20. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    Horror: Despite the Fukushima disaster, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announces his plans to build next-generation reactors. After all, they don't want to produce any more CO2050 emissions here from 2... Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announces plans to build next-generation reactors. In addition, units that were used after the Fukushima accident in 2011 are to be put back into operation...

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