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You Can’t Trust ‘Climate Economics’
Governments, banks and other institutions have based policies on models unconnected to reality.
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Cargo Cult Climate Economics
Last December, Nature retracted “The Economic Commitment of Climate Change,” by Kotz, Levermann, and Wenz (KLW24). The paper claimed that climate change would cost the global economy $38 trillion a year by 2049 ...
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The Paper That Breaks Climate Economics
Curtin-Burgess ask a straightforward question: Can we actually measure how climate affects the economy from the historical record? Their answer is no.
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Revenge of the Climate Realists
For years, those who questioned the calamity of climate change were treated like pariahs. Now, their day of vindication has come.
Energy
Vorteil Radioaktivität – Atommüll gilt als toxischer Abfall schlechthin. Ein Vergleich erlaubt eine nüchternere Einschätzung
Hochradioaktiver Abfall gilt als das ultimative Supergift – das für mindestens eine Million Jahre sicher endgelagert werden muss. So zumindest das gängige Narrativ. Doch die harten Fakten sind weit weniger alarmierend.
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Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock
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.
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How science became so political in the United States
... 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 ...
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The Most Amazing Climate Policy Figure
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.
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Hauptkritikpunkte an Ferenc Miskolczis Theorie
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.
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Heavy Metal
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.
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Surprise! Ice is rebounding at BOTH poles — climate is more complex than we know
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.
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Forscher erklären 100'000-Jahre-Zyklus der Eiszeiten
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.