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

    Methan | Braunkohletagebau Studie der Umwelthilfe Satellitenbilder aus dem Tagebau Hambach zeigen gefährlichen Methan-Ausstoß Berlin · Das Treibhausgas Methan wirkt rund 80 Mal so stark auf die Erderwärmung wie CO2. Mit Hilfe von Satellitenbildern entdecken Umweltexperten, welche Mengen des klimaschädlichen Gases in die Atmosphäre entweichen. Der Ausstoß klimaschädlichen Methans aus dem...

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

    safe from an atomic bomb" and then make it clear that their security is "much more acutely threatened by many things in Europe than by an attack from outside"... * 1,5 degrees | Climate crisis | Global warming Climate researcher Schellnhuber: "We are also talking about that "Overshooting the two-degree target" The globally respected climate expert talks about red lines, the most threatening tipping elements and his best...

  3. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    In addition, the green hydrogen must first be produced. Five times more renewable energies would be required than are available... * Climate change | Temperature | Global warming EU climate change service Copernicus Global warming was above 1,5 degrees for the first twelve months Alarming figures from the EU climate observers: According to Copernicus, the global average temperature was...

  4. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    is weakened? Can Germany do it alone? It is also unclear how one will address the labor shortage and finance the welfare state if migration is to be limited. Global warming with its dramatic consequences is simply suppressed: the combustion engine simply continues to run and the gas heater stays in... * Energy transition | Network expansion Network expansion is not making progress...

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

    could therefore effectively compensate for emissions and also produce valuable hydrogen. Carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by human activities is largely responsible for global warming. Researchers have therefore long been looking for an elegant and effective way to reduce the CO2 concentration in the air and to permanently store the carbon. Without these...

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

    | Water temperature | Browning phenomenon also in Germany Water in many lakes changes color Many fish species need cooler water and a high oxygen content. But due to global warming, the water temperature is also rising in many places, the waters are becoming murkier and browning is occurring. This significantly reduces the oxygen content of the cooler deep water - bad for trout,...

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

    the climate conference brought about climate protection? Otto: The short answer: nothing. The longer answer: We have known for more than a century that burning fossil fuels causes global warming and thus the death of people and ecosystems. The only way to stop warming is to stop using fossil fuels. Still it took 28...

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

    that fossil energies have no future. Yes, there are still loopholes and a clear exit would have been even better. Nevertheless, eight years ago the IPCC's forecast for global warming by the end of the century was still up to 4,7 degrees Celsius. The researchers are now warning of 2,4 to three degrees – assuming climate protection measures are taken. That's not enough, but it is...

  9. 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”

    Could this possibly be decided in Brazil in two years - President Lula is already working towards a successful conference? It is possible. It will not be fast enough to keep global warming below the 1,5 degree target. Therefore, the conclusion from Dubai remains: climate conferences still do not deliver what is necessary. Without these conferences it would be...

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

    agree on this, because otherwise it will hardly be possible to keep global warming within limits. But so far, some of those involved in Dubai have given the impression that they are less concerned with limiting global warming and more with climate protection... * Cooperation between the FDP, CDU and AfD Next dam burst in Thuringia The FDP wants an anti-wind power law Voices from AfD and CDU...

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

    States | fossil | COP28 Phase-out of oil, gas and coal China and the USA ignore the most pressing problem at the world climate conference Without an phase-out of oil, gas and coal, global warming cannot be limited to a tolerable level - all experts agree on that. Nevertheless, the topic is controversial at the UN climate conference. How do the world powers China and the USA position themselves? On...

  12. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    Agreement, but underlines our proximity to the internationally agreed limit values. At the 2015 World Climate Conference in Paris, countries around the world agreed to limit global warming to below 2 degrees, and if possible even to 1,5 degrees. This is about longer-term values ​​and not individual days, months or years. The background to the decision is the fatal consequences...

  13. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    There will no longer be any difference - if everyone is anti-Semitic, you will cover up those who really have anti-Semitic plans. Hitler would be proud of this blind, indignant people... * Climate protection | Global warming | CO2 emissions Like five million years ago Greenhouse gas concentrations reach record levels Despite numerous climate conferences, warnings and reports: The content of greenhouse gases in the...

  14. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    (free version) * Climate goals | Flow rate | Fossil climate targets are difficult to maintain. More and more coal, oil and gas are being produced worldwide. Time is running out if the world wants to keep global warming at 1,5 degrees. Despite this, more coal, oil and gas are being produced than ever before. And the trend continues to rise. Germany is also at the forefront when it comes to coal production. The worldwide...

  15. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    Large-scale fossil projects How 422 carbon bombs are killing the 1,5 degree target Banks are financing fossil mega-projects with trillions in loans. At the same time, the CO₂ budget that remains to limit global warming is dwindling surprisingly quickly. There is still a small glimmer of hope. Good news is rare in the current world situation, and the desire for something is all the more understandable...

  16. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    Manufacturing. Even though electricity production declined over the period of the experiment, it was proven that this type of electricity generation could be economically attractive... * Global warming | Glacier | Apocalypse Ice shelf melt inevitable: New York and Hamburg will sink into the sea Apocalypse The West Antarctic ice shelf will melt, even if global warming...

  17. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    is just eleven years old. By the time she's 65, the world could be 2,5 degrees hotter. When she is 88 years old, the year 2100 will be reached. The year by which global warming should have been limited to a maximum of 1,5 degrees. And in which, according to current forecasts, the mark of four degrees above pre-industrial levels may be exceeded. They fight for...

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

    large gaps. Experts consider the so-called global inventory to be a possible turning point. The Paris Climate Agreement is the written promise of 195 countries to limit global warming to well below two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times and to make efforts to keep warming below 1,5 degrees. The countries have this promise...

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

    to the study. According to Peter Fretwell's team, the results published in the journal "Communications Earth & Environment" support predictions that if global warming continues, 90 percent of all emperor penguin colonies will be virtually extinct by the end of the century... * The golden board in front of the head Who delivered the greatest anti-scientific nonsense of the...

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

    Bureaucracy and fossil energy companies slow things down. What needs to change. Renewable energies must cover all energy needs by 2030 in order to have any chance of limiting global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius. The devastating heat waves that are already occurring in southern Europe and other regions today occur at a global warming of 1,2 degrees. Man...

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