1. Newsletter XX 2024 - News+ May 12th - Top author: Israel in existential crisis due to war, army starts evacuation in Rafah

    Afghanistan Kriegsverbrechen begangen hatten. * Treibhausgas | klimaschädlich | Lachgas Lachgas – Droge, Anästhetikum und Klimahammer Das altehrwürdige Lachgas ist 270 Mal klimaschädlicher als Kohlendioxid. Dennoch hört man davon wenig. Lachgas oder Distickstoffmonoxid (N2O) ist bekannt als Narkosemittel, Treibgas für Lebensmittel und Partydroge. Das Gas ist ausserdem ein Klimahammer, von dem...

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    Aufbereitung von Flüssiggas oder bei Lecks an Pipelines entweicht Methan häufig in die Luft. 5. Mai Klimaschädliche | Subventionen | Diesel | CO2-Preis Studie zu klimaschädlichen Subventionen: Kohlendioxid-Ausstoß wird belohnt Laut einer Studie begünstigen Subventionen fossile Energie stärker, als der CO₂-Preis sie verteuert. Das ist wichtig für die Haushaltsverhandlungen. BERLIN taz |...

  3. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    Doesn't share the CO2 hysteria and instead relies on freedom, progress and science? Hello? Has anyone there ever talked to someone reputable from science? The more carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, the less infrared radiation reaches space from Earth. This is completely banal physics and not hysteria. The result: The sun continues to heat up the earth...

  4. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    Scattered across fields, significant amounts of CO₂ can be removed from the atmosphere. Farmers should also benefit from the idea. The Earth has a natural waste disposal system for carbon dioxide. Rocks, such as the sides of mountains, play an important role in removing the climate-damaging greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Because with every rain shower their rock becomes a little...

  5. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    represent. Sanford/Florida – In order to counteract climate change, researchers are looking for innovative and new methods to bind CO₂. Storage of carbon dioxide is particularly difficult at room temperature because it is then a gas. America is therefore investing a lot in research into storing greenhouse gases underground in deep caves or rock layers. A team of...

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

    Percent of waste recycled. The majority ends up in landfills, is burned or ends up in the environment and waterways. The global plastic system also emits more than a gigaton of carbon dioxide per year - as much as the emissions of Europe's three largest economies: Great Britain, Germany and France. Without countermeasures, CO2 emissions could fall to four to five...

  7. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    Times points out indirect emissions, for example: Natural gas, which is mostly methane, is cleaner than coal when burned. However, methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas in the short term compared to carbon dioxide, and it can leak anywhere along the supply chain, from the extraction source to the processing plants to the stovetops. Also the...

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

    to challenge immunity... * CO2 and water via chemical conversion to carbon and hydrogen How to convert air CO2 into carbon fibers Combination catalysis produces solid carbon nanofibers from carbon dioxide Innovative carbon storage: Chemists have succeeded with a new approach Turning greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful material – in...

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

    makes a central contribution to achieving Germany's energy and climate policy goals... * January 5, 1976 (INES 3) Jaslovské Bohunice nuclear power plant, SVK Two workers suffocated due to carbon dioxide escaping from the reactor cooling system of a KS 150 in the Bohunice nuclear power plant. (Costs?) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant On January 5, 1976, radioactively contaminated...

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

    CO2 emissions | Records | 1,5 degrees New record high for CO2 emissions Balance for 2023 shows increasing emissions and dwindling natural buffers No turnaround in sight: Global carbon dioxide emissions continued to increase in 2023, as the annual balance of the Global Carbon Project shows. Accordingly, anthropogenic CO2 emissions will increase by 2022 percent compared to 1,1...

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

    Rainfall and melting ice, warns the World Weather Organization (WMO). The concentration of climate-damaging greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is rising from record to record. The most important of these, carbon dioxide (CO2), reached a striking mark last year: the concentration was 50 percent above pre-industrial levels, reported the World Weather Organization (WMO). This year...

  12. 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

    Davis (USA). According to data from the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the Earth's atmosphere currently has the highest CO₂ concentration in a million years. Rock weathering, where carbon dioxide from the air reacts with volcanic rock, can reduce concentrations. Because this natural process takes millions of years, it can cause climate change and global warming...

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

    from Africa A company in Dubai wants to take over large parts of African countries in order to harvest CO2 credits from the forests. African forests absorb 600 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than any other forest region in the world. Potential that investors want to monetize in the form of carbon credits. At the forefront is a company called Blue Carbon, which...

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

    especially in China - made from coal. It is therefore a fossil raw material. [...] The plant is located next to a coke factory; hydrogen and carbon dioxide are extracted from the exhaust gases from coke production. Ómar Sigurbjörnsson from Carbon Recycling International still speaks of progress. Methanol in China is usually obtained from coal gasification, which...

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

    in Berlin. The average revenue per certificate in the first half of the year was 87 euros 11; the previous year's value was estimated at 80 euros 32. The emission of one tonne of carbon dioxide is permitted per certificate. The money raised will be used to support climate-friendly modernizations, the expansion of the charging infrastructure for e-mobility or the development of the hydrogen industry. [...]...

  16. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Radiation dose... Various incidents during breeder operation in the 1990s were also reported... 1976 January 5, 1976 (INES 3) Jaslovské Bohunice nuclear power plant, CS, SVK Due to carbon dioxide escaping from the reactor cooling system of a KS 150 in the Bohunice nuclear power plant two workers suffocated. (Costs?) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia de Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant On January 5, 1976, radioactive...

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

    Bitumen as a binding agent has not yet been asphalted for a meter of road. However, the tough material also contributes to the creation of massive amounts of CO2 emissions: around 350 kilograms of carbon dioxide per ton of bitumen. [...] Now the Cologne-based Strabag and its Viennese parent company surprise with news that solves the two bitumen problems - environmental impact and supply uncertainty - in one fell swoop...

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

    Above all, the use of coke, coal and natural gas as reducing agents and to heat up the ovens. As a result, metallurgical gases are created that contain, among other things, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Although some of these gases are burned and used for heating, there is still a lot of CO2 left over. [...] In the future, not only could such secondary utilization of CO2...

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

    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 shipped to Iceland It sounds like a megalomaniacal plan: Swiss scientists want to dispose of CO2 emissions from the small country in Iceland - and have already started. [...]...

  20. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    Sufficiently sealed The safe rehabilitation of the abandoned springs would cost more than 30 billion euros, a research team calculated. Large fossil fuel corporations are primarily responsible. After carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas methane is the second largest climate threat. The concentration of methane in the atmosphere is increasing rapidly and has reached record levels in recent years. According to the...

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