Our starting point was that whatever political benefits might result from the cynical association of disasters with greenhouse gas emissions, reducing greenhouse gas emissions was not a plausible route to reducing the impacts of disasters.

... how it came to be that those leading the U.S. government have come to view scientists and universities as an enemy, which should be destroyed ...

And yet, despite all of that political and policy volatility, the US over recent decades has both managed to sustain a significant and consistent rate of decarbonization while establishing its energy economy as the envy of much of the world.

Die Theorie von Ferenc Miskolczi stellt eine radikale Alternative zum konventionellen Verständnis des Treibhauseffekts der Erde dar. Sie postuliert einen selbstregulierenden atmosphärischen Mechanismus, der eine Erwärmung durch Treibhausgase wie CO2 begrenzt.

Over the last 7,000 years humans have mined more than 700 million tonnes copper. The metals requirements of a net zero energy transition, the world will need to produce another 700 million tonnes of copper over the next 22 years.

Two new studies show that the Earth’s climate is far more complex than often acknowledged, reminding us of the importance of pragmatic energy and climate policies.

Warum es alle hunderttausend Jahre zu einer Eiszeit kommt, konnte bisher nicht komplett erklärt werden. Nun hat ein internationales Forscherteam mit Schweizer Beteiligung die Faktoren identifiziert: Neben der Sonne spielt die Wechselwirkung von Klima und Gletschern eine Rolle.

One of the most pervasive misunderstandings of climate is the belief that any long-term trend in a measured climate variable indicates a change in climate, as defined by the IPCC. In practice, “long-term” is often defined to be only a few decades worth of observations.