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    in den USA versichern. Irreführendes Narrativ: Gas als Brückentechnologie Erdgas wird häufig als Übergangstechnologie bezeichnet. Dabei wird jedoch außer Acht gelassen, dass es hauptsächlich aus Methan besteht. Methan ist um ein Vielfaches klimaschädlicher als CO2. Bei der Aufbereitung von Flüssiggas oder bei Lecks an Pipelines entweicht Methan häufig in die Luft. 5. Mai Klimaschädliche |...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    A district of the municipality of Nuthe-Urstromtal south of Berlin, is fermenting the manure from 450 bulls and old straw from the stable. Manure and manure release methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate, but also carbon dioxide. Without the biogas plant, the gases would escape into the atmosphere and have their effect there. This is how they are turned into an adjacent combined heat and power plant...

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

    recommends total PFAS levels below 500 nanograms per liter, this limit in Canada is 30 ng/l. In the USA the limits were massively tightened a few years ago... * Methane | Opencast lignite mining Study by Environmental Aid Satellite images from the Hambach opencast mine show dangerous methane emissions Berlin · The greenhouse gas methane has around 80 times as strong an impact on global warming as...

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

    Deckwirth from Lobbycontrol. “It distorts the discourse,” she says. “The lobby association holds out the prospect of simply being able to maintain existing business models.”... * Greenhouse gas emissions | methane | Natural gas production Methane mystery: How the collapse of the Soviet Union affected emissions Post-USSR: Natural gas production fell, but more methane was released into the atmosphere....

  5. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    That's only half the case. [...] Ultimately, CO2 prices can be expected to rise enormously. Anyone who still relies on fossil equipment, be it cars or heating systems, will soon find it expensive. * Methane | Natural gas | Petroleum New study Methane emissions in the USA higher than expected Methane is many times more harmful to the climate than CO2. Now a new study shows: Especially when it comes to reducing fossil fuels...

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

    liquid natural gas is processed and loaded onto tankers. Time and time again, the work is done uncleanly. Dangerous gases escape into the atmosphere: benzene, carcinogenic. Pentane, highly flammable. Methane is many times more harmful to the climate than CO₂. Liquefied natural gas is sent all over the world from the terminal in the southern United States. Also to Europe. But there is another secret...

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

    Neither enough representatives of the EU states spoke out for nor against further deployment. The Commission was then able to decide on its own... * United States | Natural gas | methane | LNG terminal Biden and the mega terminal: Is it the beginning of the end of the LNG boom in the USA? New York Times: Government wants to put huge terminal project on hold. It could be biggest...

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

    the troposphere, which increases the natural greenhouse effect. The most important greenhouse gas in current global warming is carbon dioxide (CO2), and there are others such as: B. methane and nitrous oxide. The average CO2 concentration in the earth's atmosphere measured by the Mauna Loa measuring station rose from originally around 280 ppm before the start of industrialization to...

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

    could have been confused with flaring. But it's not just Adnoc that behaves in a non-transparent manner, the government of the United Arab Emirates has also not reported its methane emissions to the United Nations for almost ten years, the Guardian also recently reported. Methane can escape when fossil fuels are extracted. The risk of greenwashing in...

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

    Brand: The concentration was 50 percent above pre-industrial levels, the World Weather Organization (WMO) reported. This year the increase continued. The greenhouse gases methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) also reached record levels last year. "Despite decades of warnings from the scientific community, despite thousands of pages of reports and dozens of climate conferences...

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

    October 1961 (Tsar bomb AN602) Novaya Zemlya, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nuclear-welt@reaktorpleite.de October 14th LNG | Fracking | Methane US liquefied natural gas from fracking is much more harmful than coal LNG causes more greenhouse gases than all other fossil fuels, and it also causes massive damage to health and the environment. The...

  12. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    banned from ten Japanese prefectures for safety reasons, including Fukushima. Strict radiation tests are planned for food from the rest of Japan... * Methane | Glacier | Permafrost Arctic: Glacier retreat exposes methane sources On Svalbard alone, sources in the glacier foreground emit 2.300 tons of methane per year Fatal feedback: The shrinking...

  13. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    of consumption – and pays the suppliers the difference to the market price. There were fears from the outset that companies would take advantage of this and charge prices above market... * Methane | Temperature rise | Global warming Special satellite for methane is intended to detect leaks and large sources Environmental organization is building satellite "MethaneSAT" to measure methane, which can detect even the smallest leaks...

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

    However, waste is limited to 40 years. The permit for storage in the interim fuel storage facility in Ahaus, BZA expires in 2036... * United States | fossil industry | Methane environmental and climate danger 14.000 old gas and oil wells in US waters are not sufficiently sealed The safe cleanup of the abandoned wells would cost more than 30 billion euros, calculated...

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

    responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to the high energy consumption, the main reason for this is the reducing agents used in blast furnaces: fossil fuels such as coke, coal or methane are needed to reduce the oxidized iron ore to metallic iron - and enormous amounts of CO2 are released in the process. [...] direct reduction with ammonia in the test But there is an alternative:...

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

    The 1,3 million cubic meters of water stored in 1.060 tanks in the power plant contain radiant tritium and traces of other radioactive substances... * Greenhouse gas | Emissions | methane | Food We are eating the climate Global food consumption could lead to an additional degree of warming by 2100 and thus single-handedly not only reduce the 1,5 degree...

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

    whether she didn't just imagine the sighting. Don't Look Up! And the fact that our cell phones have built-in spy technology is just a conspiracy theory. * LNG Liquefied Gas | methane | LNG gas price: How much liquid gas is currently arriving in Germany? Partly because of the war in Ukraine, Germany is now increasingly relying on liquid gas for its energy supply. The first...

  18. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    Accordingly, at a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour, 6,7 million tons of CO₂ equivalents could be saved per year. This includes both carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as methane. Based on car traffic on motorways alone, there is a reduction in CO₂ emissions of 10,5 percent, according to the study. Overall, a speed limit of 4,2...

  19. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    The idea: Farmers sell their animal excrement to a biogas plant. Manure, manure and leftover food are mixed into a paste in tanks the height of a building. Fermentation produces methane, a biogas that can be used for heating... *** December 08th Neckarwestheim | Continued operation | TÜV inspection Continued operation of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant Nuclear reactor needs new TÜV inspection The reactor...

  20. Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough

    Prices ensured. But now the construction industry is in dire straits and the economy is repeatedly slowed down by lockdowns with which China is enforcing its zero-corona strategy... * NASA | methane | Temperature rise NASA: Satellite images show disturbing discovery - it breaks all records NASA has discovered more than 50 super emitters of methane worldwide. An instrument of the ISS...

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