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

    made... March 20th Lobby Association | Future Gas campaign against controversial gas association: Wave of resignations from lobby association Critics accuse the “Future Gas” association of working against the heat transition. Dozens of municipal utilities are canceling their memberships. BERLIN taz | The campaign by several organizations to withdraw municipal utilities from the fossil fuel lobby association “Zukunft Gas” has...

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

    DW's Utz Klages... * Great Britain | Fossil lobby | Gas industry leak: Anti-heat pump campaign in UK financed by gas lobby The media culture war over the heating law and the heat transition continues, not only in Germany, but also in many countries. A targeted disinformation campaign by the gas lobby in Great Britain was recently uncovered. About the last two...

  3. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    is actually the core of global climate policy in the coming months. The global community has not delivered - and must now urgently consider how to respond... * Heating Act | Heat transition | Climate protection Difficult birth: Heating law passed in the Bundestag SPD and Greens are satisfied. CDU politician speaks of “insanity”. The left does not see tenant protection guaranteed...

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

    overlooked: Weather extremes are increasing and heat, drought and fires are increasing again this year in the Mediterranean region. * Disinformation | Energy costs | Energy saving | Uncertainty about the heat transition: Why the willingness to save energy is so low Energy and climate – compact: Many households are afraid of not being able to pay rising energy costs. Willingness to save energy...

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

    More wind turbines are being built again in Germany May 2, 2022 - Expansion of wind power is stalling - Countries are hardly making room for wind turbines February 11, 2022 - Germany no longer needs wind turbines * Heat transition | climate friendly | Heat plan This is how heating becomes cool When it comes to heating, it now depends on the municipalities. With new low-temperature networks they can protect the climate - and citizens...

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

    Bavaria and Co are slowing down the energy transition, making it expensive and making others pay for it too? Anyone who sabotages the energy transition and climate protection should at least bear the costs... * Heat transition | Heating law | Heat plan | Building Energy Act The Heated Heat Transition Even if the revised "Heating Act" passes the Bundestag this week, it can only be used for a few years...

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

    like Rheinmetall and Co., whose stocks rise when people fall. Such enlightened journalism would sometimes have to become confrontational instead of constructive. * Building Energy Act | Heat transition with hydrogen? Building Energy Act: Bumpy heat transition with too long a start Important law ends standstill in the building sector, but is not enough to achieve the 2030 climate target /...

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

    The Solar Outlook adds around 873 GW. According to the outlook, around 253 GW is expected to be added in the USA in the next five years, 145 GW in India and 88 GW in Germany... June 14th Heat transition | Gas lobby | Heating law Kemfert: Heating law is a success for the gas lobby The traffic light coalition has agreed on a new draft for a heating law. He sees longer...

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

    soon 1300 households with the waste heat from a data center. The operators would like to give off even more heat, but cannot find any other buyers. How can that be when, at the same time, there is a debate about the heat transition and heating laws and many people fear expensive heat pumps? Andreas Sichert: That’s easy to explain. Waste heat is usually produced where there is a specific location or time...

  10. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    complain and talk about 100 questions? Why is the – unchanged – law blocked by the FDP two months later? And who is lying to whom here?... * Heat pump | Collect data | Heat transition Heat transition: Why useful energy is so important End consumers expect that heating in winter ensures that they don't freeze and that they can bear the costs. Why does the idea of ​​a...

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

    they fears - to the detriment of everyone. [...] After the Union painted the picture in the Bundestag on Wednesday of a "clique" at the top of the Federal Ministry of Economics that is forcing the heating transition on citizens against all reason, it today launched a signature campaign against the Building Energy Act. In the Bundestag, CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja accused Economics Minister Robert Habeck of...

  12. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    were not secured, it was said from the Liberal ranks. The spirit that always denies In the traffic light coalition, the FDP reliably acts as a “spirit that always denies”: the heat transition is happening too quickly for it, the transport transition is blocking it as much as it can. It does not offer alternatives for climate protection measures - that is anything but constructive... * Earth Overload Day

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

    Yesterday's law? And in Germany? The traffic lights are arguing, the young activists are stuck together, the citizens are despairing about the heat transition that was miscommunicated by the Economics and Climate Minister Habeck. The Federal Government's Council of Experts criticizes the government for doing too little to protect the climate. The FDP transport minister is torpedoing the transport transition and the Federal Chancellor is everything...

  14. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    In Germany, on the other hand, for weeks and months now, with verve and journalistic commitment, the mood has been raised against any steps to do something more for climate protection. In this way, the heat transition, the transport transition and the Berlin climate decision were successfully stopped in their tracks or put on the back burner... * April 03, 1960 (INES 4) WTR-2 reactor Waltz Mill, USA accident with core meltdown...

  15. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    Juggling with people's fears has brought many a liar to the forefront. Fear eats up the soul and the constant dripping wears away the hard stone and of course also the soft brain... * Heat transition Green light for green heat The EU Commission gives the green light for the billion-dollar funding of green district and local heating. Federal funding for efficient heating networks (BEW) will in future...

  16. Newsletter XVIII 2022 - April 28th to May 04th - News+ wind vanes and pocket fillers in tireless use

    without fossils "We need Tesla speed" The federal government's green electricity package is good, but it should actually be doubled, says energy expert Volker Quaschning. The transport and heating transition cannot wait any longer. What an energy system without fossils can look like – part 7 and conclusion. * Finland Finnish consortium terminates contract with Rosatom to build nuclear reactor The...

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