Global Warming

How a Physicist Became a Climate Truth Teller

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This is not an altogether innocent drifting, he points out in a videoconference interview from his home in Cold Spring, N.Y. In 2019 a report by the presidents of the National Academies of Sciences claimed the “magnitude and frequency of certain extreme events are increasing.…

Jacques Bopp

Climate Media vs. Climate Science - WSJ

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Joe Biden has put a presidential imprimatur on climate change being an existential threat, and he doesn’t mean in the Jean-Paul Sartre sense of man’s search for meaning in an uncomforting universe.…

Jacques Bopp

NZZ: Dürre in Europa: Zwei Studien liefern konträre Aussagen

#Nature #Global Warming

Klimaforscher waren verdutzt und fragten, wer nun recht habe. Die Mediennutzer erfuhren davon in der Regel nichts. Über die zweite Studie berichteten Journalisten kaum.…

Jacques Bopp

NZZ: Fukushima: Horst Michael-Prasser zur Zukunft der Kernenergie

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_Herr Prasser, vor zehn Jahren ereignete sich in Fukushima einer der schwersten Unfälle in der Geschichte der Kernenergie.…

Jacques Bopp

WSJ: Why Beijing Loves Biden and Paris

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The U.S. officially rejoined the Paris climate accord on Friday to much media and European applause. Our guess is that China is the most pleased because it knows the accord will restrict American energy while Beijing gets a decade-long free ride.…

Jacques Bopp

Warum ist es in diesem Winter so kalt?

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Namhafte Wissenschaftler erklären die tiefen Temperaturen mit dem Klimawandel. Doch das ist nur Spekulation. Und es ist nicht die einzige in der ganzen Debatte.…

Jacques Bopp

Vor 42 000 Jahren schwächelte das Magnetfeld der Erde – möglicherweise hatte dies weitreichende Folgen für Klima und Umwelt

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Altes Holz aus Neuseeland hilft Forschern dabei, den Ablauf der letzten Schwächung des Erdmagnetfelds zu rekonstruieren. Sie spekulieren auch über dramatische Umweltfolgen. Doch dies ist eine kühne These.…

Jacques Bopp

Hottest Day Ever in Australia Confirmed - Jennifer Marohasy

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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology deleted what was long regarded as the hottest day ever recorded in Australia – Bourke’s 125°F (51.7°C) on the 3rd January 1909.…

Jacques Bopp

Second Film: Ribbons of Coral and a Giant Cod (By Jennifer Marohasy)

#Nature #Global Warming #Australia

Many of the media headlines that give the impression the Great Barrier Reef is a ruin are based on aerial surveys by one man. The same Terry Hughes who incorrectly claimed the inshore reefs off-Bowen are now mud-flat.…

Jacques Bopp

University Appeal Upheld, Peter Ridd Loses - We all Lose - Jennifer Marohasy

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On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when he called-out his colleague Terry Hughes for falsely claiming healthy inshore coral reefs were dead from climate change and deteriorating water quality.…

Jacques Bopp