- Kategorie: Klimawandel
(Spiegel Online) In Kattowitz in Polen wollen Diplomaten die strengeren Regeln des Klimavertrags von Paris beschließen, um die Erderwärmung auf 1,5 Grad zu beschränken. Doch was nützt das, wenn der CO2-Ausstoß weiter steigt?
- Kategorie: Klimawandel
"Editor’s Note
This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change. Complementing the text is a series of aerial photographs and videos, all shot over the past year by George Steinmetz. With support from the Pulitzer Center, this two-part article is based on 18 months of reporting and well over a hundred interviews. It tracks the efforts of a small group of American scientists, activists and politicians to raise the alarm and stave off catastrophe. It will come as a revelation to many readers — an agonizing revelation — to understand how thoroughly they grasped the problem and how close they came to solving it. Jake Silverstein"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html#main
- Kategorie: Klimawandel
(Zeitonline, Tobias Haberkorn) Über den Klimawandel reden wir noch immer, als sei er ferne Fiktion. Dabei ist längst ein Klimakrieg im Gange. Er wird um CO2 geführt, aber auch um Wahrheit und Schuld.
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2018-10/klimawandel-schuld-anerkennung-klimakrieg-weltklimakonferenz
- Kategorie: Klimawandel
(Spiegel Online) Unser Wetter wird vom Jetstream mitbestimmt. Doch die Erderwärmung hat offenbar einen ungünstigen Einfluss auf die Luftströmung: Das Risiko sommerlicher Hitzewellen könnte in Zukunft steigen.
- Kategorie: Klimawandel
(ZeitOnline / Otto Wöhrbach) Mit diesem Argument wird gern beschwichtigt: So schlimm könne der Klimawandel dann ja nicht sein. Doch wissenschaftlich ist das Unsinn.
- Kategorie: Klimawandel
(NationalGeographic) New data from two Arctic sites suggest some surface layers are no longer freezing. If that continues, greenhouse gases from permafrost could accelerate climate change.
- Kategorie: Klimawandel
(RollingStone) Last week, scientists learned that 40-foot piles of compacted sea ice — some of the oldest and most durable clusters in the Arctic — are breaking away from the coast of Greenland and drifting out to sea. One meteorologist called it “scary,” but it was hardly unexpected. As the earth’s climate heats up, the idea of a “blue Arctic” — that is, the disappearance of sea ice for at least part of the year, leaving only open ocean — has long been predicted by climate scientists. Some researchers believe that you might be able to kayak to the North Pole as early as 2030; others think the sea ice might last until 2040 or longer.
- Kategorie: Klimawandel
“We’re doomed,” says Mayer Hillman with such a beaming smile that it takes a moment for the words to sink in. “The outcome is death, and it’s the end of most life on the planet because we’re so dependent on the burning of fossil fuels. There are no means of reversing the process which is melting the polar ice caps. And very few appear to be prepared to say so.”