1. Newsletter XIII 2024 - News+ March 24th - Protest at the first nuclear summit in Brussels against the IAEA's “nuclear fantasies”.

    Hauptstadt Baku statt. Der wenig kontroverse Titel von Figueres' Kommentar lautet übersetzt: "Aserbaidschan muss der Anker für 1,5 Grad sein". Angesichts dessen, dass Ende Januar 2024 die globale Durchschnittstemperatur schon seit einem ganzen Jahr um 1,5 Grad über vorindustriellem Niveau lag, ist das wohl nicht zu hoch gegriffen. [...] Der gut geölte Repressionsapparat des Präsidenten Das...

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

    die Bekämpfung des Klimawandels unerlässlich, denn sie stoße kein CO2 aus. Für eine Renaissance der Atomkraft wirbt die Atomlobby seit Jahrzehnten. Bisher vergebens, den seit vielen Jahren sind global immer weniger Atomkraftwerke in Betrieb. Dafür werden die erneuerbaren Energien immer schneller ausgebaut. Und die letzte Weltklimakonferenz in Dubai hat gerade beschlossen, die Erneuerbaren bis...

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

    als Gewinnbeteiligung aus. Für viele städtischen Haushalte ist das eine willkommene Zusatzeinnahme. * EU-Kommission | Völkerrecht | Finanzkrise Warum die Enteignung russischer Vermögen zur globalen Finanzkrise werden könnte In der Frage der eingefrorenen russischen Vermögen spielt die EU mit dem Feuer. Warum mit einer Enteignung das globale Finanzsystem Schaden nehmen könnte. Noch immer sind...

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

    A third of Ukraine is already poisoned. Fighting means that large parts of Ukraine are toxic. Lead, arsenic and mercury contaminate soil. What did it mean for global nutrition? Guest post. There is no question that war leaves lasting destruction in its wake. This includes damage to both people and the environment. In the beginning of the third year of...

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

    Island has risen at an impressive rate over the past ten years - in some regions by up to 23 centimeters, as researchers report based on data from the Greenland Network of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)... * CIA | WikiLeaks | Assange case Julian Assange: Of liars, fraudsters and thieves Statement on the court proceedings in London about...

  6. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    “But Israel can only ever be a temporary hedge,” said Mendel. A long-term solution can therefore only be peace with the Palestinians... * Majority supports climate protection Global survey on climate protection Politicians can be bolder A survey in 125 countries shows great support for climate protection and also the willingness to spend money on it. But what is remarkable is...

  7. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    | Temperature | Global warming EU climate change service Copernicus Global warming was above 1,5 degrees for the first twelve months Alarming figures from the EU climate observers: According to Copernicus, the global average temperature was consistently one and a half degrees above the reference value for a year. And January 2024 was also far too warm. Global warming has...

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

    New energy solar park put into operation. Thanks to a combination of several technologies to generate energy, the largest solar park of its kind can provide electricity around the clock. According to the China Global Television Network (CGTN), the system consists of 11.960 heliostats, i.e. large, computer-controlled mirrors. [...] solar energy is stored in salts The receiver at the top of the...

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

    before midnight, according to the doomsday clock. The Ukraine war is the central nuclear hotspot. And what about the Middle East? "Threatening developments continue to steer the world toward a global catastrophe," warn the scientists in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Tuesday. Like last year, they set up the so-called Doomsday Clock...

  10. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    extend, contribute to polarization and strengthen extremists everywhere. He also renewed calls for an immediate ceasefire in the fight between Israel and Hamas... * The countries of the Global South and the hypocrisy of the West in Davos The Global South is increasingly taking a stand against Western hypocrisy - rightly China shows Zelenskyj the cold one in Davos Shoulder. South Africa is enough...

  11. 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

    Vehicles will continue to be exempt from vehicle tax. In addition, agricultural diesel subsidies should only be abolished gradually by 2026 and not all at once... * Remigration | Globalists | anti-democratic terms sound harmless at first What right-wing extremists mean by "remigration" and "globalists" Right-wing radicals use fighting terms that are used in pseudo-scientific...

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

    Residents in the region around Cameron are exposed to ever higher emissions from the many factories. These release formaldehyde, benzene and other carcinogenic substances. Venture Global, the operator of the Calcasieu Canal terminal, has violated legal emissions standards more than 18 times in just under 150 months. About so-called “flares”, in German: torches, the...

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

    The term is nothing other than the definition that every person on this globe, including future generations, should have the same chances in life. It's about intergenerational, global justice. This is the core of political ecology... * Exploitation | Migration | Working conditions Hard work: Germany is building on the backs of those without a German passport On the construction sites...

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

    - this was colorfully and audibly reminded by demonstrators in front of the congress center in Dubai and activists elsewhere. It is important that COP 28 launched the Fund to Support the Global South. The money that countries like Germany pay in will of course not be enough to pay for the climate damage - if it is even affordable. Politicians...

  15. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    Institutions including universities, pension funds and governments that hold about $41 trillion in assets have now divested from fossil fuels, the Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement said Friday. The announcement comes days after the 28th UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, which concluded with a call for a "transition away from fossil fuels"....

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

    world leaders at the climate conference in Dubai. It is already the 28th conference of its kind. It has been eight years since the international community committed itself in Paris to limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius, and if possible to just 1,5 degrees. Not enough has happened since then; Climate researcher Mojib Latif, for example, maintains the 1,5 degree target...

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

    responsible... * Olaf Scholz | Climate conference | Exit | fossil | 1,5 degree climate summit COP28: Scholz calls for a global exit from coal, oil and gas In Dubai, the Chancellor is calling for a global move away from fossil fuels. Climate change remains “the great, global challenge of our time.” "We must now all show the firm determination to emerge from...

  18. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    and 25 percent energy loss added. In addition, “green” hydrogen must be viewed critically because it cannot be produced in sufficient quantities in the Federal Republic of Germany, so it has to be imported in large quantities from the global south. However, energy and raw material consumption would have to be significantly reduced in order to achieve the envisaged climate goals and prevent some of the coming disasters...

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

    down for a more efficient climate policy? The “Emissions Gap Report 2023” from the UN environmental program Unep has just shown that the demands and reality of climate protection are far apart. Globally, we are miles away from achieving the Paris 1,5 degree climate target. From January to September 2023, the global average was warmer than 86 degrees on 1,5 days compared to...

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

    Wanting to single-handedly approve glyphosate, the plant poison, for another 10 years does not help to strengthen trust in the European institutions,” says Helmut Burtscher-Schaden, GLOBAL 2000 biochemist: “What is particularly explosive is that just a few days ago there were worrying initial data from the first independent animal cancer study with glyphosate were presented and...

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