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

    world leaders at the climate conference in Dubai. It is already the 28th conference of its kind. It has been eight years since the international community committed itself in Paris to limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius, and if possible to just 1,5 degrees. Not enough has happened since then; Climate researcher Mojib Latif, for example, maintains the 1,5 degree target...

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

    responsible... * Olaf Scholz | Climate conference | Exit | fossil | 1,5 degree climate summit COP28: Scholz calls for a global exit from coal, oil and gas In Dubai, the Chancellor is calling for a global move away from fossil fuels. Climate change remains “the great, global challenge of our time.” "We must now all show the firm determination to emerge from...

  3. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    and 25 percent energy loss added. In addition, “green” hydrogen must be viewed critically because it cannot be produced in sufficient quantities in the Federal Republic of Germany, so it has to be imported in large quantities from the global south. However, energy and raw material consumption would have to be significantly reduced in order to achieve the envisaged climate goals and prevent some of the coming disasters...

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

    down for a more efficient climate policy? The “Emissions Gap Report 2023” from the UN environmental program Unep has just shown that the demands and reality of climate protection are far apart. Globally, we are miles away from achieving the Paris 1,5 degree climate target. From January to September 2023, the global average was warmer than 86 degrees on 1,5 days compared to...

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

    Wanting to single-handedly approve glyphosate, the plant poison, for another 10 years does not help to strengthen trust in the European institutions,” says Helmut Burtscher-Schaden, GLOBAL 2000 biochemist: “What is particularly explosive is that just a few days ago there were worrying initial data from the first independent animal cancer study with glyphosate were presented and...

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

    people involved in the conflict come first. To stand up for human rights, you don't have to demonize an “other side”... * Climate change | Temperatures | Human rights Global warming Super hot record year According to a new analysis, temperatures in the last twelve months were on average more than 1,3 degrees higher than before industrialization. This is a new...

  7. 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

    in which carbon dioxide from the air reacts with volcanic rock can reduce the concentration. Because this natural process takes millions of years, it cannot compensate for climate change and global warming. However, studies have already shown that rock weathering can be significantly accelerated if the rock is ground into a fine dust. Loud...

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

    has no longer existed: Washington and Moscow are only one step away from direct conflict. The Doomsday Clock "now stands at 90 seconds to midnight - closer to global catastrophe than ever before," according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Russian Duma has pushed ahead with plans to ratify the Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (Comprehensive...

  9. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    Ignorance may be the more pleasant choice... * Greenland | Climate change | Warming | Sea level research into tipping elements Greenland ice sheet more stable than expected Even later curbing global warming could prevent the Greenland ice sheet from tipping completely. However, this is not really an all-clear for sea level rise and certainly not for others...

  10. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    kilometers. The state news agency Bakhtar reported new severe damage, destroyed houses and at least 100 injured... * Israel | Palestine How are countries in the Global South reacting to the escalation of violence in the Middle East? All eleven states examined condemn the Hamas attacks. But many point to the “root causes”. What the states demand...

  11. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    who were working with Fridays for Future was not known for a long time. We fear that the agency has confiscated thousands of private addresses from people who simply wanted to order stickers or posters to their homes ahead of the global climate strike. So suddenly people who go to mass demonstrations have to ask themselves whether they are being targeted by...

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

    Environmentalists have denounced the chemical company Bayer for failing to provide evidence of health risks from glyphosate in its application for re-approval of the pesticide. The Global 2000 and Pesticide Action Network associations suspect the manufacturer consortium led by Bayer of “unfavorable results and data from manufacturer studies being inadmissible” in the approval application...

  13. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    to make greater efforts to reach a "decisive moment" in the fight against climate change. Because: “Man-made climate change is undoubtedly the greatest global challenge of our time.” [...] Scholz's "climate" government is now gutting the climate protection law, which was passed by the previous Groko, among other things, after heavy pressure from the Fridays for Future movement...

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

    better without this competition. Pesticides containing glyphosate are now produced by several dozen chemical companies worldwide. The German Bayer AG took over Monsanto in 2018 and has "a leading position" in the global rankings, Bayer spokesman Utz Klages tells DW... * Great Britain | Fossil lobby | Gas industry leak: Anti-heat pump campaign in UK financed by gas lobby The...

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

    Climate Agreement | 1,5 degrees | fossile A bad climate report for the global community The first global balance sheet from the UN Climate Secretariat shows major 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...

  16. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    Golds? There is little reason to be optimistic in these times when it comes to the escalating climate crisis. Although there is only a short time left, at most a decade, to reduce global greenhouse gases by half in order to still have a chance of not exceeding the 1,5 to two degrees Celsius upper limit, governments are not changing course, with a few exceptions , while...

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

    Climate protection program. At least there is support for this from the expert council... * Disinformation | climate change denier | Heartland Institute Systematic character assassination of climate researchers A global network of climate change deniers spreads misinformation. A new study shows that one of their main strategies is the character assassination of scientists and decision-makers. That lets...

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

    The entire area is covered with asphalt or concrete. The situation is similar in Mannheim and Rüsselsheim am Rhein... * Solar China | Solar boom Solar revolution: How China and Brazil are shaping the global energy market Energy and climate – compact: Solar boom in the People's Republic dwarfs the rest of the world. Brazil is catching up, Germany is losing ground. These are the trends. The...

  19. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    It is also about the planned commissioning of the uranium oxide storage hall for almost 60 t of uranium oxide as nuclear waste - a new nuclear waste storage facility for North Rhine-Westphalia! The invitation talks about “global developments” and “changed strategic framework conditions” - so the management is opening the big barrel. Next week it will be on Sunday, August 000th at 20 p.m. in...

  20. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    THTR and much more. THTR breakdown list The HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' The reactor failure - THTR problems *** THTR 300 problems Truth and lies Communication Intention What to do? “In times of global fraud, telling the truth is considered a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell - ** Problems with the nuclear industry: 1. The lie of life began in the USA in 1943, as part of...

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