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

    New research shows that the gigantic ice sheet is likely more resilient to global warming than previously thought. Even a – short-term – sharp rise in temperatures would then be tolerable. However, countermeasures would then have to be taken quickly. [...] In fact, there are over a dozen tilting elements that can change within much shorter periods of time...

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

    There are more glacial lakes that can drain uncontrollably at any time. Between 2000 and 2018 alone, more than 200 new lakes were formed in Sikkim. The reason: Rising temperatures due to climate change are causing the ice on the glaciers to melt ever faster. According to a 2020 study, South Lhonak Lake posed the greatest threat. Sikkim is also a...

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

    everything we have ever seen.” What is particularly worrying is that the El Niño event is only just developing. Taalas: "We can expect these record-breaking temperatures to continue for months and to have cascading effects on our environment and society." According to the European Earth Monitoring Service Copernicus, the temperature was...

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

    still needs to be determined. However, it can be assumed that it is related to the current heat and drought in the region. Water temperatures of over 39 degrees were recently measured in the lake. The Amazon region is currently suffering from high temperatures and a severe drought. Many rivers in the region carry significantly less water than the national average...

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

    för Klimatet". What followed is a historic wrestling match. Why disruptive actions do not harm climate protection, but rather help. Let's remember the years 2018 and 2019: Extreme temperatures in Germany too, hardly any precipitation, drought. Especially the old and the sick , nature and many farmers suffer from the heat and drought. The effects of the climate crisis are clear to everyone...

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

    California and China – floods in Slovenia, Austria, Franconia and Tyrol as well as worldwide coral death and warm seas like never before. Around the Mediterranean, people experience temperatures of 40 degrees and more. Our house is burning and the energy transition is still going far too slowly. But now the federal government has finally passed an amendment to the law, a solar package, that...

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

    also only slightly. Why is that? Before the winter of 2022, there was great concern about a gas shortage, and public institutions, employers and private individuals were asked to enter the winter with lower room temperatures. In fact, according to the Federal Network Agency, 2022 percent less gas was consumed in Germany in 17,6 than in the previous year. [...] Possible explanations for the...

  8. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    ... Most likely the coolant also partially boiled (boiling point sodium: 883 °C), which allows conclusions to be drawn about the local temperatures. However, the melting temperature of the metallic uranium used as fuel was not reached, only the fuel rod cladding began to turn into a liquid state. The exact date of the damage is unknown,...

  9. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    de Kernkraftwerk Belojarsk#Störfälle Block 2 Am 30./31. Dezember 1978 sank die Temperatur in der Gegend auf bis zu −50 °C. In der darauffolgenden Silvesternacht kam es durch die niedrigen Temperaturen zu einem schweren Zwischenfall, der sich fast zu einem GAU ausgedehnt hätte. Das Dach der Turbinenhalle stürzte aufgrund von Materialermüdung ein. Teile fielen auf den Generator und es kam zu einem...

  10. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Map of the nuclear world The uranium story INES, NAMS and the interference Low-level radioactive radiation?! Uranium transports through Europe The ABC operational concept INES and the disruptions in nuclear facilities 2010 to 2019 *** INES, Who the f... is INES? The International Scale of Nuclear and Radiological Events (INES) is a tool to convey to the public the safety significance...

  11. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Braidwood In the hot summers of 2000 and 2012, the operator had to obtain special permits in order to be able to operate the nuclear power plant at higher cooling temperatures than originally intended. Braidwood is a nuclear power plant that was threatened with closure. However, on September 16, 2021, the Governor of Illinois signed a...

  12. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    where it is needed, said the spokesman for the Federal Energy Working Group of the BUND, Werner Neumann. This is more environmentally friendly and cost-effective... * Gulf Stream | Climate collapse | Water temperatures tipping point Atlantic Gulf Stream could collapse in just a few years The Atlantic overturning circulation will collapse this century, a new study predicts. Despite criticism...

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

    A 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 Manhattan Project Who was...

  14. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    (INES ? Class?) Akw Surry, VA, USA * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de July 15th Heat wave worldwide, extreme temperatures +++ Worldwide heat wave +++: The earth is glowing High temperatures everywhere are forcing people and governments to act. In Germany, statutory health insurance doctors are calling for air conditioning in old people's homes. Around 35...

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

    Climate researcher Friederike Otto: “It is a death sentence for people and ecosystems.” The United States has experienced an intense heat wave in recent weeks. In California, temperatures rose to up to 49 degrees. Likewise in Mexico, Canada and North Africa. Scientists blame climate change, but also El Niño... * China | Tritium | Japan over plans for...

  16. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    crisis catastrophe | Heat Almost 50 degrees Celsius in Mexico Due to extreme heat, at least 100 people have died in Mexico in the past two weeks. Due to the rainy season, temperatures are now falling. In the north, however, temperatures continue to reach 49 degrees Celsius. According to authorities, at least 100 people have died in extreme heat in Mexico in the past two weeks...

  17. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    Fish suffocate. [...] The maps from the Climate Reanalyzer at the University of Maine in the USA, which represent a compilation of daily weather data, show temperatures for large parts of the world's oceans that are in some cases significantly above the average for the years 1971 to 2000. Namely the tropical Pacific, large parts of the North Atlantic including the North and Baltic Seas, the western...

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

    million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Braidwood In the hot summers of 2000 and 2012, the operator had to obtain special permits in order to be able to operate the nuclear power plant at higher cooling temperatures than originally intended. Braidwood is a nuclear power plant that was threatened with closure. However, on September 16, 2021, the Governor of Illinois signed a...

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

    Winter devastating forest fires, whose smoke is now even fogging New York. And now worrying reports are also coming from China. 578 national weather stations recorded the highest temperatures ever recorded this time of year. The southern province of 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...

  20. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    takes care. "This takes away the stress of counting the days without rain." And there are more and more of them, especially in the south of France. In terms of climate, 2022 was considered an exceptional year with its record temperatures, persistent drought and sometimes dramatic forest fires. But it could also be a new normal, as feared at the highest levels. [...] In the past year...

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