It is said that CO² must finally get a price. But it already has a price. But consumers don’t react to this price as expected. More intensive thinking and political action is the order of the day for climate activists.
Originally posted in German at Makroskop
Translated and edited by BRAVE NEW EUROPE
German politicians are currently outbidding each other with ideas for reducing CO² emissions. …
Germany feels good about itself again. After its decision on the future of coal, it sees itself as a pioneer in transforming its energy production. In reality it still doesn’t want to think seriously about the problem.
Originally posted in German at Makroskop
Translated and edited by BRAVE NEW EUROPE
On January 28th, …
Introduction
David Wallace-Wells’ recent article The Unhabitable Earth in New York Magazine has been read by hundreds of thousands. “It is, I promise, worse than you think,” the first sentence reads. There is no doubt that many readers have been shocked by the avalanche of sober information that the author presents in order to make the point that it is, …
There is good news, unfortunately it is not true
Stefan Rahmstorf (see here) and Anders Levermann, both from PIK, the Potsdam Research Climate Centre, published an article on realclimate.org a couple of days ago. Levermann is also a professor and the editor of Earth System Dynamics (see here). …
