born at 315 ppm
studied physics in a former life
Interests: meditation, philosophy, climate change and climate policy, bodywork.
we got to get down to 0 (in words "zero") GHGs.
active at piqd.de.
Five papers about global warming rate doubling
Development of the 10-year-averaged global warming rate. After a plateau of very linear warming between about 1980 and 2015, the rate significantly increased. Red: continuous fit with uncertainty rangeBlue: stepwise linear fit with uncertainty range(Source) Research results emerging since a couple of years show an almost doubling of global warming rate. The five most important sources to support this claim are:
Coalitions are always weaker
Source: Wikipedia We are currently seeing the peculiar fact that although the European part of NATO is superior to Russia in terms of defence spending, total number of soldiers, tanks and aircraft, experts still consider it too weak to fend off a Russian attack, for example in the Baltic states. The European forces in the Baltics are astonishingly, almost ridiculously small in number: a few thousand men - and that is already seen as the…
https://remarksandobservations.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/coalitions-are-always-weaker/
the paw of the beast
the beast has left its marks and they are not reassuring it has been unleashed again we are the beast
https://remarksandobservations.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/the-paw-of-the-beast/
Warming Rate Jump to 0,33 K/decade
This is what my go-to climate blogger tamino found as expectancy value for the next ten years or so, with an uncertainty of ± 0,08 K/decade. What this means is: there is an unsettlingly high probability of warming having become considerably faster and us having much less time to act on it. Much less: the warming rate until about 2015 was only around 0,18 K/decade! All IPCC recommendations and emission budgets are based on the latter.
https://remarksandobservations.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/warming-rate-jump-to-033-k-decade/
Global Warming Acceleration: What’s Nibbling the Clouds Away
2023 was a record year and 2024 will top it. That would be two years in a row of more than 1.5°C warming compared to the pre-industrial baseline. The acceleration of global warming over the last decade or so, which has been noted here several times, is becoming more apparent. The statistician's blog Tamino has documented the faster pace after removing solar, volcanic and El Niño influences.
Petition To Tame Social Media
To be submitted to the German and European Parliament. Feel free to submit it to your country as well. Social media has an impact on the mood of the country, the issues discussed and how they are discussed, the mental health of users, the spread of true and false information, and election results. It can reinforce polarisation and 'us versus them' attitudes by drawing attention to posts that express fear, dislike or aggression.
https://remarksandobservations.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/petition-to-tame-social-media/
Global warming acceleration – for all intents and purposes real
It’s the Media, Stupid! – How Come Trump Won?
source: wikimedia commons Journalist Michael Tomasky has published what is known in English as a 'rant' on newreplic.com. It is an angry analysis of the process that led to Trump's election victory, and it is well summed up in the sentence above. In 1996, Fox News was nothing more than a nuisance, and the rest of the right-wing media barely existed.
https://remarksandobservations.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/its-the-media-stupid-how-come-trump-won/
Die #Verkehrswende Petition beim Bundestag braucht noch zahlreiche Unterschrifen.
Es sind erst 9.500 Stück im Kasten.
Auf gehts: zeichen mit der ganzen Familie (auch Deine Kinder und die Oma in Mexiko dürfen!) und boosten:
https://koelle4future.de/blog/2024/11/02/petition-bundesverkehrswegeplan/
Direktlink Bundestag:
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/petitionen/_2024/_10/_17/Petition_173482.html
@P4FKoeln done 🙂
less freshwater on earths land mass since 2014
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-nasa-satellites-reveal-abrupt-global.html
if you want to support Ukraine and international law in the process:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AJWnkvYTjY3cv6HqC4_iMfcZm6aJEaSps6CnFjLW-28/edit#gid=0
Trump and climate – not all is lost
image: Bild: Doug Mills / The New York Times There is a broad movement to counter the post-Trump election doom and gloom about protecting the Earth system, and several articles in the New York Times explore different aspects of this. Here, for example, we look at how some conservation groups used clever litigation to defeat many attempts to repeal or weaken environmental laws during DT's last term.
https://remarksandobservations.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/trump-and-climate-not-all-is-lost/
Gibt es das Richtige im Falschen? T.W.Adorno meint: "Nein!".
E.Musk meint "Ja!" er könne DT klimafreundlicher stimmen.
https://anmerkungen.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/nicht-alles-ist-verloren-trump-und-das-klima/
Weil uns nach der Onion-InfoWars-Aktion gerade viele Anfragen erreichen: Ja, die Postillon Media Holding hat Milliardär Frank Gotthardt ein faires Angebot (12,15 Euro) zur Übernahme von Nius gemacht. Wir warten derzeit auf eine finale Zusage.
“The Japan Meteorological Agency reported that it was the first time since records began in 1951 that so many storms co-existed in the Pacific basin in November.”
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153575/typhoons-line-up-in-the-western-pacific
While I wasn’t affected too much by recent storms / #typhoons (at worst it was just rainy weather), the incoming #ManYi / #PepitoPH is likely the closest to approach #Manila, #Philippines 🇵🇭 .
"Wir schätzen rund 20 % der Arbeitsplätze (in der Autoindustrie) gehen verloren, weil die Komplexität des Elektromotors wesentlich geringer ist als die Komplexität des Verbrennungsmotors.
Wir verlieren nicht nur 20 % der Arbeitsplätze, wenn es jetzt nicht gelingt, wieder in der Transformation zur Stärke zu finden, weil die Branche ist wirklich in einem der größten Umbrüche ihrer Geschichte."
Absolut lesenswertes Spiegel-Interview mit Professor Wilfrid Bach über die “Zeitbombe” Klimaerwärmung und die notwendigen politischen Gegenmaßnahmen!
We did it – EU pushed emissions down (so far…)
unsplash / Thomas Richter Global warming is creating an increasingly dense chain of local and regional disasters and problems, such as in Valencia, which are putting increasing pressure on the world's economic and political system. The EU is the only major supranational organisation that resolves the contradiction between national competitiveness and climate protection within its sphere through binding rules for all member…
https://remarksandobservations.wordpress.com/2024/11/03/we-did-it-eu-pushed-emissions-down-so-far/
A Thoughtful Jewish Voice In The Age Of Tribal Wars
Stephen Kapos, a survivor of the mass murder of Jews who lives in the UK, is convinced that the actions of the Israeli army amount to genocide. He sees families now being destroyed by death and children traumatised - albeit on a much smaller scale - and he is one of the Jews who say 'not in our name'. He describes how a cousin of his, who found her parents' clothes among the collected belongings of those murdered in…
