1. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    But even compared to the multi-year average, last year's harvest was poor, 2 percent below the average for the years 2016 to 2021. [...] The earth has already become an average of 1,2 degrees warmer due to human greenhouse gases. The air on land warms up faster than that on the surface of oceans, which absorb a lot of heat. In Germany it is...

  2. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    gilt auch für Powell. Doch kritische Fragen wurden dort weder ihr noch Giulianui gestellt... *** Aktuelles+ Hintergrundwissen *** Aktuelles+ ** Mönch von Lützerath | Fossile Lobby | Emission Treibhausgas Stoi Polipop..., haltet den Schlammmönch! Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathieträger der Klimabewegung Der »Schlamm-Magier« spricht darüber, warum er ins rheinische Braunkohlerevier kommt, was ihn...

  3. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    Viele Investitionen in Erdgas und Atomkraft darf man als grün verkaufen, so hat die EU es im vergangenen Jahr in ihrer sogenannten Taxonomie für nachhaltige Finanzen festgeschrieben, den vielen Treibhausgasemissionen und dem vielen Atommüll zum Trotz. Jetzt will die EU-Kommission die logische Konsequenz beim Wasserstoff ziehen: Grün soll man den unter Umständen auch nennen dürfen, wenn er gar...

  4. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    The lawsuit filed in Berlin-Brandenburg called for the decision to implement emergency programs as provided for by the Climate Protection Act. Germany had not achieved its goal of saving a total of 2020 percent of greenhouse gases by 40 compared to 1990 - and not in 2021 either. According to preliminary calculations by the Agora Energiewende think tank, this was also not achieved in 2022. Accusations against several...

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

    assumed. 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...

  6. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    Still, exceeding one of these tipping elements could trigger the next in a cascade, such as the thawing of the Arctic permafrost. These contain around twice as many greenhouse gases as are currently present in the atmosphere. And then there would be no stopping... * Ukraine War | Peace negotiations Plea for peace negotiations in the Ukrainian war Course of the war and...

  7. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    should ensure in its sector - and was rejected by the Expert Council for Climate Issues as "already without sufficient claim". Since then, he has failed to make any substantial proposals for reducing greenhouse gases, even though the Climate Protection Act also obliges Wissing to do so. The German Environmental Aid even accused the minister of “refusal to work”... * Chomsky | War...

  8. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    There are currently almost daily reports of human rights violations in the Gulf state of Qatar and Iran. In contrast, silence is spreading in the Assange case... * Climate protection | greenhouse gas | Agriculture Cattle farming for climate protection? Beware of greenwashing! Various climate and environmental arguments are used today to defend cattle farming. What they all have in common is...

  9. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    climatically induced environmental changes in the context of paleoclimatology and Quaternary research. As early as the end of the 19th century, human influences on the Earth's climate system via greenhouse gases were suspected, but corresponding calculations were strongly doubted until the 1960s. Detailed descriptions of the research history of climate change, especially that in...

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

    The police found weapons, lists of enemies and elaborate plans for a coup. [...] Meanwhile, the actual climate crisis continues to worsen. Global greenhouse gas emissions have risen again this year. They should have been sinking long ago. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, they must reach their absolute peak before 2025 and then halve by 2030. By 2050 the world must...

  11. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    for the escalation, which was warned about all along. Nobody will be held accountable for this. But we should learn some lessons from this... ** November 27th Emissions | Greenhouse gas Big Oil produces three times more greenhouse gases than reported Oil and gas producers are not fully reporting emissions, an organization that analyzed satellite data has found. Our knowledge...

  12. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    distributed and in many places also be of poorer quality. Experts are therefore calling for a “stress test” to be carried out quickly for water-intensive industries... * Energy transition costs | Greenhouse gas emissions | Climate change How much emissions does the energy transition cause? Delayed switching could drastically increase additional CO2 emissions. The speed is important: How many raw materials...

  13. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    want to produce “fossil-free” electricity... * Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | economic growth | World Population Climate Council ignores the influence of population growth As one of the biggest drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, population growth is barely mentioned in the latest IPPC report. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ICCP) neither addresses a possible reduction in...

  14. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    Lower Saxony criticizes the associated risk of accidents at the proposed transshipment point in the district for radioactive waste. The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia also criticized this... * Greenhouse gas | CO2 emissions | Exhaust gas aluminum triformate Does ALF get all the CO2 from the exhaust gases of coal-fired power plants? It is easy and relatively inexpensive to produce, aluminum triformate, called ALF for short....

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

    in the form of plants in Central Asia, the Middle East and the southwest of the USA on... *** Top of page News+ Background knowledge *** News+ October 28th ** Climate protection | CO2 | Greenhouse gas emissions Climate protection: It's not enough UNEP: The climate protection goals cannot be achieved with the measures implemented and planned so far Too little, too slow: In the run-up to the next...

  16. Newsletter XLII 2022 - October 23rd to 27th - News+ The fairy tale with primary energy consumption

    reflect. These include climate-damaging influences such as population growth, increasing livestock and meat production, the use of fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation. All of these factors have increased in the last 50 years, as scientists show... * Cooperative | renewable energies |...

  17. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    In a new study for the journal Nature, even climate scientists are calling for more civil disobedience to make it clear how deep we are "in shit"... * Climate crisis | Greenhouse gas The largest emitter is spared The growing social inequality in the world is partly responsible for the climate crisis. But politicians have so far remained inactive. Researchers now want this...

  18. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    was ignited below deck and thus 2,7 meters under water. It created a crater on the sea floor that was 6 meters deep and more than 300 meters wide... ** October 02 Nord Stream | greenhouse gas | Responsibility of the Nord Stream pipelines: no more gas is escaping. Researchers warn of significant ecological consequences of the explosion. The search for those responsible continues, Western...

  19. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    The widespread “flaring” is even more damaging to the climate than expected. On average, such systems only burn 91 percent of the methane to produce carbon dioxide, and some of these systems even release the potent greenhouse gas without combustion. In the USA alone, five times more methane is released through flaring than expected, as researchers report in “Science”... * September 30, 1999...

  20. Newsletter XXXVI 2022 - September 09th to 16th - News+ permanent vigil in front of ANF Framatome in Lingen

    still called ongoing draining of wetlands. The latter is particularly problematic because moors and wet meadows store carbon on a large scale, thus removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere... ** September 15th PV system | Solar obligation Demand from the state energy ministers: Solar obligation for everyone In Baden-Württemberg, all new non-residential buildings...

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