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Will people care?" Nolan responded that, given what's at stake, he worries about complacency and even denial when it comes to the global risks posed by the planet's nuclear arsenals. “You normalize the killing of tens of thousands of people. You create moral equivalences, false equivalences with...
By August the world has used up its ecological resources for the entire year. The earth has been overexploited for more than 50 years now. CO2 emissions account for the largest share of overload. This year, Global Earth Overshoot Day falls on Wednesday, August 2nd. The day marks the point in the year by which humanity has acquired so many resources from...
Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson
An international team of European scientists has discovered that northwest Greenland was ice-free around 400.000 years ago. At a time when global temperatures were about the same as today... * Does the father of the atomic bomb bear responsibility for the bomb and the problems with the nuclear economy? J. Robert Oppenheimer and the...
Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine
have already set some climate records this year. June 2023 was warmer than ever before, as the European climate monitoring service Copernicus reported a few days ago. The global monthly average for June 2023 was 0,53 degrees above the long-term average from 1991 to 2020, which was already affected by climate change. This means that June has now been warmer than this for 14 years in a row...
especially off the coast of Peru, that is, in the eastern tropical Pacific. The problem: Climate change causes these fluctuations to become stronger from time to time, and the El Niño years are particularly warm years on a global scale... * Climate policy | Climate movement | Fridays-for-Future dispute over the goal of the climate movement Boris Palmer takes on Luisa Neubauer Boris Palmer is back in...
bzw. vor der Realität. Damit bedient sie eine immense Sehnsucht nach dem Zurück in die vermeintlich „gute alte Zeit“, als die Welt noch sicher und überschaubar war und man von den Zumutungen der Globalisierung verschont blieb. Insofern kann die einzig sinnvolle Auseinandersetzung nur daran bestehen, sie an den konkreten Herausforderungen zu messen und die inhaltliche Leere ihrer Antworten zu...
Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed
The drought we are seeing now has been there since at least 2017 and is a connected event." It's about a period of drought, not a singular event... * Industrialized countries | Global South | Climate debt Financial summit: It's time for the West Heads of government of powerful and less powerful states traveled to Paris to...
Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South
This could allow France to use nuclear power for more of its ammonia production... * Desert | Drought | Drought World Day Against Desertification Deserts and droughts – a global problem Today is World Day against Desertification and Drought. Very few people in Europe know about it, even though drought and deserts have long been a reality here too. As rainy as this spring...
Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda
Sichuan issued a heat warning because temperatures had already reached over 42 degrees. [...] The temperature is now rising by more than 0,2 degrees per decade. The average values are therefore likely to break the 2 degree limit permanently in the next decade without rapid global CO1,5 reduction... * June 10, 2009 (INES 2?) Cadarache nuclear factory, FRA Dismantling of the production plant for MOX fuel elements In the ...
Critics therefore criticized the involvement of a Chinese state-owned company early on... * Namibia | Energy transition | green hydrogen | Colonialism Agreement with Namibia A “global blueprint for green hydrogen” A mega project for the global energy transition is to be built in Namibia with German participation. Investments equal to the annual gross domestic product are planned...
is? A young Syrian recently told me that what is typically German for him is that the trains are never on time. He now wants to save for a car... * Energy transition | Expansion of wind and solar | Electricity production Global energy transition: Where does green electricity work? Solar and wind expansion is a painfully slow project? Does not have to be. A new data set shows in which countries the electricity transition...
Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard
Discover sources Environmental organization builds “MethaneSAT” satellite to measure methane, which detects even the smallest leaks. The data should be publicly accessible. Methane is responsible for about 30 percent of the global temperature increase since the Industrial Revolution, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) "Global Methane Tracker 2023." But it is still not comprehensive...
Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?
Anfang Mai dieses Jahres hat die Universität Maine Messdaten veröffentlicht, nach denen sich die Weltmeere auf eine neue Rekordtemperatur erhitzt haben: 21,1 Grad Celsius waren das Anfang April im globalen Durchschnitt. Seit den 50er Jahren werden die Temperaturen der Meere gemessen. Der bisherige Rekord von 21 Grad war im Jahr 2016. Damals heizte das Wetterphänomen El Niño den Pazifik...
a global network on water and land that connects areas of semi-natural wilderness for species to move from one to the other. [...] Indigenous societies should also be included in global protection management. Pörtner believes this is extremely important. "Indigenous groups must respect their traditional rights of sustainable use...
and right-wing extremists' demands for a stop to the demolition of nuclear power plants are absurd. [...] Worldwide, more nuclear power plants have been decommissioned than new ones have been built for years, meaning that the shrinking of the global nuclear power plant fleet is likely to accelerate significantly over the next two decades. The 284 of the 420 reactors in operation worldwide have been running for over 30 years, 123 of them even...
greenhouse gas emissions reductions, but only additionally by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The globally coordinated climate protection policy necessary for the internationally binding agreement has been largely missing for too long. This removal of CO2 from the air is still necessary even if the central goal of the Paris Agreement is "significant warming...
Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization
for generations that are related to the safety issues of the final repository... * Media | democracy | Fascism The deafening silence of intellectuals in the midst of global conflict Progressive commentators are increasingly rare in major media outlets. Conservative opinion makers dominate the political stage in the West and justify crimes. What is...
Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard
consumes almost 35 times as much as the poorest. This information is based on data from the World Inequality Labs, which the taz evaluated for Germany. Because this inequality is a global problem, models are being developed around the world on how to make the rich pay for climate-damaging behavior. Here we present three models and an author of the world climate reports estimates...
When there was no electricity available, they fed an average of over 65 percent of their nominal output into the grid over the last seven years... * Emissions | Climate crisis | Traffic light must act "If we end up at 3 degrees globally, Germany will be threatened with around 6 degrees." The world is on course for 2,7 degrees. This will also have serious consequences for Germany, says climate researcher Stefan Rahmstorf in an interview...
Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS
the number of registered actions has almost doubled again... * Tritium Introduction Anniversary of Fukushima: The Pacific is not a place for contaminated wastewater WHO instead of IAEA should assess global risks for the world population "The discharge of more than a million tons of contaminated water into the The Pacific is endangering numerous animal and plant species and will also impact...
