Recent study suggests that the saving of the ozone layer by using ozone friendly HFCs is hurting the climate as those chemicals will be responsible for up to almost half the GHG-effect in 2050. Wow! Now we got a problem, buddies!
Or should we see it positive? We managed to reconstruct refridgerators around the globe in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
24 Jun
Conflicting interests: Ozone Layer vs. Climate?
19 Jun
Positive Wrap-Up of Bonn Negotiations
Taken from the Adopt a Negotiator Website
The most common question I’ve been asked since returning to Halifax from the Bonn climate talks, which ended last Friday, is, “What was the most inspirational thing that happened?”
The United Kingdom’s emissions are dropping year by year. China has committed $600 billion into green technology. There were 100 passionate [...]
14 Jun
African Security is at stake!
Usually I am against teh “securitization” of climate change. Mainly European politicians try to argue that a flood of climate refugees will destabilize Europe. Bullskit! While I support seeing climate change as a meta-topic, going over a range of fields from environmental, energy to social policy, it becomes obvious that securitization serves mainly the purpose [...]
11 Jun
Math in Japan is different!
The japanese Prime Minister Aso is fighting against attacks from around the world due to the very weak targets Japan is willing to take in a Copenhagen Agreement in December. Arguing that taking a new baseline year (2005 instead of the generally accepted 1990-level) is something more “about the future”. According to this level, Japan [...]
11 Jun
Sweden: a Vattenfall-owned state?
CAN activists were stunned when meeting for a “bilateral” (lobbying) with the Swedish delegation at the Bonn Climate Talks today. Sweden holds the upcoming presidency of the EU and will speak for the EU in Copenahgen when the most important Climate Agreement of our time is suppose to be negotiated.
Vattenfall, the state-owned energy company from [...]
28 May
Smart Putin acknowledges Global Warming – to sell gas?
An article by NATURE tells how Russia is turning its position around and – even though quietly – say that Climate Change is human-made. The ex-IPCC Vice-Chair and top russian climate scientist Yuri Izrael is now conviced. Wow!
But first critical voices have been heard already: Russia wants a strong Copenhagen-goal – for the West. Knowing [...]
27 May
Nobel-laureate Chu for white Geoengineering
US Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu (Nobelprize winner in physics) has come up with yet another idea of geoengineering, an alternative to climatepolicy i have mentioned at another blog soem time ago. New idea: paint the earth white (house-roofs, streets, hats, cars, dogs, trees?).
So what is better:
My idea: stop driving cars and spending money on [...]
5 May
Silently comes the Cheat to our game…
With the upcoming conference of the Green Party of Germany, the debate around CCS is likely to heat some minds. While some around former Party-Boss Reinhard Bütikofer, Boris Palmer and the popular Reinhard Loske want to set (strong?) conditions to the implementation of CCS in Germany and promote further research. This is considered the right-wing [...]
26 Apr
Obama talks abut Green New Deal – and some other “solutions”
Except the part about “clean coal”, it sounds good. No prominent mentioning of nuklear experiments. Here is an excerpt form the White House website on what the new Administration plans to do, sound like GREEN NEW DEAL to me!:
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