1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - News+ April 14th - Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    Klimaziele aber deutlich verfehlt. Politisch wird das keine direkten Folgen haben, denn die Bundesregierung hat das Klimaschutzgesetz entsprechend angepasst. Bis 2030 sollen die Emissionen an Treibhausgasen in Deutschland um 65 Prozent gegenüber dem Jahr 1990 sinken. So steht es im Klimaschutzgesetz. Bis 2045 soll Deutschland klimaneutral werden, also kein CO2 mehr ausstoßen. Wie sehr das Land...

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

    massively sharpened a few years ago... * Methane | Opencast lignite mining Study by Umwelthilfe Satellite images from the Hambach opencast mine show dangerous methane emissions Berlin · The greenhouse gas methane has around 80 times as much effect on global warming as CO2. Using satellite images, environmental experts discover how much of the climate-damaging gas is escaping into the atmosphere. The...

  3. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    der Analyse meteorologischer Beobachtungsdaten im Zeitraum von 1979 bis 2020. Durch Computersimulationen auf Basis der Daten zeigen die Forschenden zudem, dass der menschengemachte Anstieg der Treibhausgase in der Atmosphäre einen wesentlichen Anteil an dieser Entwicklung hat. "Länger andauernde und langsamer verlaufende große zusammenhängende Hitzewellen werden in Zukunft verheerendere...

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

    criticizes Christina Deckwirth from Lobbycontrol. “It distorts the discourse,” she says. “The lobby association holds out the prospect of simply being able to maintain existing business models.”... * Greenhouse gas emissions | methane | Natural gas production Methane mystery: How the collapse of the Soviet Union affected emissions Post-USSR: Natural gas production fell, but more methane entered...

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

    were viewed. In 1994, 425 events were listed, 177 of which were safety-relevant (one event was classified as INES level 2)... February 29th Climate protection | CO2 | Rocks store greenhouse gases in the field? Yes, it works. A long-term experiment shows that if basalt dust is scattered over fields, significant amounts of CO₂ can be removed from the atmosphere. Also the...

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

    convert into rock Research team discovers bacteria that quickly convert CO₂ into rock A research team finds bacteria that convert CO₂ into rock. They could provide a solution to storing greenhouse gases underground. Sanford/Florida – In order to counteract climate change, researchers are looking for innovative and new methods to bind CO₂. Especially at...

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

    From four new studies, I would say that the risk is significantly greater. However, there are certain consequences of global warming. For example, that it will continue as long as we emit greenhouse gases, that there will be more extreme weather events or that sea levels will rise. This is all secured. At the tipping point of the North Atlantic circulation, however, we are talking about a risk...

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

    The New York Times reported yesterday. [...] In fact, natural gas is not, as governments and the gas lobby repeatedly claim, a clean form of energy that has low greenhouse gas emissions. The New York Times, for example, points out indirect emissions: Natural gas, which is mostly methane, is cleaner than coal when burned. However...

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

    Converts air CO2 into carbon fibers Combination catalysis produces solid carbon nanofibers from carbon dioxide Innovative carbon storage: Using a new approach, chemists have succeeded in converting the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful material - carbon nanofibers. This is made possible by a tandem reaction in which CO2 and water are produced in two catalytic steps...

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

    Fear of entry into the state parliament, the FDP comes to one percent. The Greens with seven percent and the Left with eight percent are also far behind the AfD and CDU... * Super rich | Greenhouse gases | Climate tax: The ball is in the court of the one percent of the super-rich. The 80 million richest people* cause the same amount of greenhouse gases as four billion poorer people. It takes fair...

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

    Exaggeration of the topic, combined with striking craftsmanship errors. Climate policy is not voodoo. On the contrary, it is almost trivial how one can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an economy. The state has three levers for this. Firstly, it can subsidize, i.e. subsidize the conversion of factories, infrastructure, the car fleet and houses with a lot of money. It costs...

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

    which is then supposed to be stored in geological reservoirs, is theoretically safe there for many hundreds of thousands of years. [...] Humanity must not only finally begin to rapidly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, but also drive forward the expansion of negative emissions at a record pace. Both are a race against time. A race against climate change. * Agriculture |...

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

    presented to his international team. This year's 549-page data collection is the most detailed relevant document published annually... * Renewables up, greenhouse gases down, transforming the economy instead of greenwashing Good news: a rapid global energy transition is possible Rising emissions, gloomy outlook, COP28- Disaster. But there are...

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

    This is not a wonder. The USA, for example, is now the largest oil producer in the world and at the same time the largest oil consumer. And the gigantic empire of China, which releases almost a third of all greenhouse gases worldwide, wants to rely on climate-damaging coal for decades and not be climate-neutral until 2060 at the earliest... * Nuclear weapons | Deterrence | Peace Movement Nuclear Weapons: What...

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

    such as state anti-Semitism commissioners or harsh court rulings, we are obviously on the wrong path. Therefore a consideration, tentative, uncertain, like everything at the moment... * Climate protection | greenhouse gas | Weather extremes Climate protection: Sobering results New records for greenhouse gas levels, climate protection plans insufficient Bad news: Two weeks before the world climate summit there is...

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

    are, you camouflage those who really have anti-Semitic plans. Hitler would be proud of this blind, indignant people... * Climate protection | Global warming | CO2 emissions Like five million years ago Greenhouse gas concentrations reach record levels Despite numerous climate conferences, warnings and reports: The content of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continues to rise - and is reaching...

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

    can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de October 14th LNG | Fracking | Methane US liquefied natural gas from fracking is much more harmful than coal LNG causes more greenhouse gases than all other fossil fuels, and it also causes massive damage to health and the environment. The ARD documentary “LNG at any price” dismantles the myth of the supposedly clean liquid natural gas LNG...

  18. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    It will only be possible with enormous effort to keep warming below the 2 degree limit. “We are currently on the way to a 3-degree world by the end of the century.”... * Greenhouse gas emissions | Transport transition | Transport policy EU in car fever: 15.000 km of rails gone, but 30.000 km of new motorways The road network continues to proliferate, railway tracks disappear, and...

  19. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    It's been a good ten years. At that time, protests in northern Germany led to a virtual ban by the black-yellow federal government on CCS technology - the large-scale technology in which the greenhouse gas CO2 is pressed into deep layers of the earth in order to banish it from the atmosphere. Opponents of the CCS projects, especially in Schleswig-Holstein, feared leaks, artificial earthquakes and risks for...

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

    for new gas heating systems - partly backed up with misinformation - reached far more people, but rather caused uncertainty and rejection. August 14 United States | greenhouse gas | Law unconstitutional Verdict with a signal effect Historic success for young plaintiffs in climate litigation in the USA The US state of Montana violates the constitutional right to a "clean...

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