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

    around 280 ppm before the start of industrialization to now over 410 ppm. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the temperature increase compared to 1850-1900 was around 2010 °C by the 1,1s. 2023 was the hottest year on record; the temperatures were around 1,45 °C above the average of the pre-industrial reference period. Since the 1980s, every...

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

    hand over. That's about half the world's population, making 2024 the biggest election year in history. 2024 is in the middle of the “decisive decade,” as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emphasizes in its latest assessment report. That means: This decade, the climate-friendly transformation must be put on track in order to keep the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement alive...

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

    In their study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the group suspects that global warming began in the 1860s - earlier than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models. At 1,7 degrees Celsius, it would also be 0,5 degrees Celsius higher than the IPCC estimate. However, other researchers express some sharp criticism of the study. [...] Mojib Latif from...

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

    six key impacts of climate change: floods, droughts, heat waves, tropical storms, wildfires and rising sea levels. It is based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) medium scenario for temperature increase by the year 2100. Among other things, it is assumed that the average temperature will rise by 2,7 degrees Celsius... * Great Britain | EDF | Nuclear power plant Torness Nuclear power plant failure Torness...

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

    Dubai is a confession that fossil fuels have no future. Yes, there are still loopholes and a clear exit would have been even better. Nevertheless, eight years ago the IPCC's forecast for global warming by the end of the century was still up to 4,7 degrees Celsius. The researchers are now warning of 2,4 to three degrees – assuming climate protection measures are taken. That's enough...

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

    save, support projects elsewhere in the world that avoid or reduce CO2. This means they can essentially make up for their own emissions... * Climate Change | Facts | IPCC facts on climate change: Does the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sometimes make mistakes? When negotiations take place at the World Climate Conference, facts are the basis. This is provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But how does he work...

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

    to want to do little. Global warming should be stopped at a maximum of two degrees Celsius, better at 1,5 degrees. This is what it says in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a large part of the existing fossil energy reserves may no longer be mined and burned if the goal is to be achieved - specifically: 80 percent for coal and natural gas, 30 percent for petroleum... .

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

    quickly and drastically and soon eliminate them completely or resort to adaptation measures. Anyone who follows the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) knows that this international body, which is supported by hundreds of scientists worldwide, is definitely concerned with the possibilities for humanity to address the climate crisis...

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

    covered with water. The oceans have a significant influence on the climate. Unfortunately, heat enters the oceans much more easily than, for example, sand or clay. According to a survey by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in the past few decades the world's oceans have absorbed 93 percent of the heat energy that also enters the earth's atmosphere due to the man-made greenhouse effect. Early May...

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

    - with suggestions that are out of the question for climate protection or come too late. A column by Rainer Grießhammer. The climate continues to warm. If you follow the IPCC's gloomy forecasts, there is a risk of global conflagration. Everyone knows that. The citizens, the politicians, the companies, the Federal Constitutional Court. But there has been a rift in society for a few months now. The traffic lights are on at the same time...

  11. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    by Klimareporter°. Whether injecting the gas under the North Sea can be a safe option should therefore be investigated quickly. Climate reporter°: Mr. Graßl, less than a week after the IPCC completed work on the 6th assessment report with the synthesis report, the traffic light coalition decided, after days of deliberations, to weaken the climate protection law and to implement the strict sector goals...

  12. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    rescue? We will know in four to six years, said climate researcher Friederike Otto a few days ago in an online debate on the newly published synthesis report of the sixth IPCC cycle. The answer will be found, for example, in the next, seventh world climate report, said the scientist from Imperial College London. This report could be published around 2027...

  13. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    few ideas for solutions. Climate change is already threatening our existence today, and the more we know about it, the clearer this threat becomes. The synthesis report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be published on Monday, shows this once again. [...] electricity from wind and sun instead of nuclear/fusion: renewable energies are the backbone of the climate change. A discussion about nuclear energy...

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

    Warming already around. But it was only after Hansen's speech that the media and politicians took up climate change. It is certainly no coincidence that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was founded in November of the same year. However, one man knew very well about global warming years before NASA expert Hansen. And not only that. As a new study shows, he also understood...

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

    Climate change, in particular the anthropogenic climate change that occurred over the course of the 20th century, can be found, for example, in the first chapter of the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC and in more detail by the US physicist and science historian Spencer R. Weart. A German-language elaboration based on the work of Spencer Weart can be found on the...

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

    to reduce, but always within the framework of “sustainable development” (Sustainable Development Goals SDG). The IPCC did not investigate the possibility of reducing growth and thus per capita consumption. “Demography” does not appear in this IPCC synthesis report, although the responsible working group confirms that population size has a direct effect on the amount of...

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

    to the pre-industrial period. In your opinion, can we still achieve this 1,5 degree target? Stefan Rahmstorf: That essentially depends on politics. The last report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which appeared in April, showed again: There is a path to achieve this. And the International Energy Agency, which always precedes these climate summits, has just published the World Energy Outlook...

  18. Newsletter XIX 2022 - May 05th to 12th - News+ The economic consequences of the Ukraine war

    In addition, the Additional Protocol prohibits attacks against the natural environment as reprisal... ** Nuclear Power PlantsPlag - research platform on nuclear energy United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The UN expressed concern that "certain human activities could change the global climate". There is increasing evidence that the growing concentration of greenhouse gases in...

  19. Newsletter XV 2022 - April 08th to 14th - News+ Russian gas and the German energy transition: perspective yellow vests

    Energy reserves are only partially used. If the two-degree target is to be achieved with a probability of more than 50%, a maximum of between 2011 and 2050 gigatons (billion tons) of carbon dioxide may be released between 870 and 1.240, based on IPCC data. Converted to reserves, this means that in a global context, around 30% of oil reserves, 50% of...

  20. Newsletter XIV 2022 - April 01st to 07th - News+ Media: The truth and all the other victims

    Energies are experiencing a boom Germany is worried about the supply of gas, oil and coal. The sales figures for solar systems, storage systems and heat pumps continue to rise. * Climate catastrophe IPCC report: CO2 emissions worldwide can be halved by 2030 Climate crisis - According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, urgent action is needed. The good news: Global emissions can be reduced by 2030...

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