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

    whether they support new liquid gas infrastructure. "Anyone who continues to invest in new gas projects risks throwing their money out the window," said agency head Fatih Birol. The facts speak against Shell. At the same time, most international oil and gas multinationals simply carry on. They are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the development of new deposits - despite...

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

    visibility is necessary. ZDF: What effect do numbers as dramatic as today have? Anders Levermann: "I've been doing this for 21 years, we've seen ups and downs in public attention. The fact is that climate change is being discussed incorrectly. It's not about harming the economy. It's not about doing without. It's about about initiating structural change. We have to...

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

    After all, many people still don't realize that videos can be manipulated just as easily as images. There is also another problem: the exposure of an AI fake, such as a fact check, would first have to reach those who have been taken in. Past disinformation campaigns have shown that fact-checking portals and journalistic media often act against...

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

    which is closely linked to the opaque right-wing spectrum surrounding the AfD. Nuclear energy is on the decline in the world It is clear that nuclear energy, if you rely on facts instead of fake news, is far too expensive. It takes over 20 years to build a new one, and overall use of nuclear power is declining worldwide, as the latest World Nuclear Industry Report shows. Even in...

  5. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    by the International Economic Forum for Renewable Energies (IWR). From mid to late 2021, electricity prices in Germany literally exploded at times. But the most important disruptive factors, such as the massive failure of French nuclear power plants and the almost simultaneous exorbitantly high gas prices following the failure of the Russian pipeline gas, appear to have been eliminated. The shutdown of...

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

    of the village was sacrificed. Ridge near the village causes uncertainty Today it looks as if a forested ridge extends into the town. This is the Gauern dump. Some facts about them are recorded in an official data sheet. For example, that during the period of operation from 1954 to 1967, mining waste was piled up to a height of 37 meters... * Climate change | Water temperature |...

  7. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    false use of AI in court The new AI programs have immense capabilities - but the way they are programmed makes them susceptible to “hallucinating” supposed facts. Trump's ex-lawyer is also said to have generated false information. Now it remains to be seen whether this will have an impact on a trial currently underway against the former president...

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

    In Pirna, the candidate from the right-wing extremist AfD won the office of mayor. The rise of fascism continues to advance. A new study shows a possible factor for the AfD's success: right-wing extremist terrorist attacks. A study by Miku Matsunaga and Werner Krause published in 2023 challenges the widespread assumption that right-wing extremist terror...

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

    CO2 values ​​– the same now. While climate protection, compensation payments and a lack of progress are being discussed at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, global measurement data and models are providing facts. Already in the run-up to the conference, new records were set for atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, while the national voluntary commitments submitted as part of the Paris Climate Agreement...

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

    Medical staff. “Statistical evaluations in larger population groups show that no health effects can be detected at radiation doses below 100 mSv.” This is what it says in a fact sheet from the Federal Office of Energy from 2018, which the authority is still distributing. “This statement contradicts recent scientific findings,” declared last year...

  11. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    to accept it as a communal and democratic task and to act accordingly. Instead of polarizing, aggressive disinformation campaigns, we need scientific facts and clear information to bring calm back into the debate... * Salzgitter | Konrad shaft | Nuclear waste storage facility Longer construction period Nuclear waste storage facility in Salzgitter will probably cost more In the Konrad...

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

    Why the military-industrial complex is in a celebratory mood Biden praises weapons manufacturers as the “arsenal of democracy.” But they benefit from death and war. About one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in the world. The New York Times headline says it all: "Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales."

  13. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    consecutive months since weather records began. This is according to an analysis by Climate Central, an independent group of scientists and communicators that researches and reports on the facts about climate change and its impact on people's lives. The temperatures were on average more than 1,3 degrees Celsius higher than before...

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

    the reality," he said. Klein, like others, does not even try to refute the accusation. He simply claims: "Israel cannot be accused of apartheid a priori, regardless of the facts, because Israel is a Jewish state," said the Holocaust Researchers... October 23rd Coal | fossil | electricity production Global energy industry: From now on less coal will be burned Think tank has...

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

    dismantles the myth of supposedly clean liquid natural gas LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) from the USA. On a research trip through the production country, author Michael Höft brings frightening facts to light: the extraction of liquid natural gas leads to radioactive waste, poisoned rivers and massive climate pollution. A special camera is used to record the enormous release of methane...

  16. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    It's not the end of the world if you miss it? That's right, when a dream like that shatters, it's not something existential, but rather something highly emotional. And emotionality is the decisive factor. Anyone who gambles away this will ultimately also gamble away the opportunity to convince more people to take more climate protection. If the Last Generation really blocks the Berlin Marathon, the group will set off on a...

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

    | Wind power Bavaria | Kini Jödler Dispute over electricity tariffs: Are electricity price zones poison? Different tariffs in the north and south are damaging the industry, some claim - rightly so? A cool fact check. Bavaria's Prime Minister and election campaigner Markus Söder (CSU) recently told the Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Different electricity price zones would be a big mistake. Anyone who speaks out about such zones...

  18. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    With 200.000 residents near the French uranium mines, the death rate is twice as high as in the rest of Niger. The Nuclear Free Future Award's uranium atlas shows numerous other facts about the environmental destruction of Niger and other regions of the world caused by uranium mining... * Wind energy | Federal Network Agency | Network fees proposal from the Federal Network Agency Lower electricity prices...

  19. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    and their corporate spokespeople and lobbyists blathered on and on in the months and years that followed. They tried to downplay the problems and obscure the public's view of the facts with huge clouds of words. Likewise in 2007 the head of Vattenfall on the events in Brunsbüttel and in 2011 the Japanese government spokesman Edano on the subject of Fukushima. The list of...

  20. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    (Costs approx. 425,2 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents The following excerpt from the linked Wikipedia article is no longer available in this wording. The article has been revised, facts have disappeared and everything sounds a little different now; according to the motto: “It was only half as bad!” Wikipedia de Rocky Flats In a container with 600 tons of flammable material came...

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