YouTube’s war on climate science reached a new high, terminating our 8 year old channel. The channel is no longer reachable, pointing instead to a 404 error page. The YouTube staff sent us this email. YouTube’s History of Removing Climate Science YouTube started demonetizing our channel in January 2019, citing violations of reused content. Subsequently…
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Berlins regierender Bürgermeister Michael Müller (SPD) legte Heute sein Veto gegen wichtige Klimamassnahmen ein, obwohl dies im Vorfeld mit den Koalitionspartnern der Grünen und Linke Parteien abgesprochen wurde. Um was ging es? Verbot für Diesel in der Innenstadt ab dem Jahr 2030 Solarpflicht auf Dächern Einführung einer City-Maut Anhebung der Parkgebühren In Berlin stieg der…
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Neuroscientist Joseph Herbert asked in Psychology Today, if without testosterone, would there be war? He briefly explains tendencies of the males drive, fueled by the testosterone hormone, for violence, and that in our entire human history, we went often to war. Young males have a natural tendency, which seems testosterone-related, to form coalitions. This includes…
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Ice cores obtained years ago document an ominous rise of temperatures, abrupt change manifesting just within a few decades. First scientists thought this must be an error, but slowly they realize what it could mean for us today. Research into the polar ocean, found, it is getting hotter at a rate faster than even the worst…
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A joint research team from Brazil and France, spearheaded by professor Marcelo Ketzer and his colleagues from the Linnaeus University uncovered methane gas leakage from gas hydrate dissociation in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. The study authors suggest that the leakage is tied to climate change, more specifically to ocean warming. Along the…
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Nortvolt, a Swedish company founded by two former TESLA employees recently secured $1,6 billion to finance the construction of two Gigafactories, battery manufacturing plants. The locations for Northvolt One is Skellefteå, Sweden, and Northvolt Two in Salzgitter, Germany. A consortium of companies, financial institutions, and governments, including Volkswagen, BMW, UniCredit Bank Austria, and the German…
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NIO was founded in Shanghai, China in 2014, and focuses on e-mobility. The first car model was revealed in 2016, the EP9, an electric-powered, two-seat sports car. Since then NIO sold over 50,000 cars, primarily in China. Interestingly, they also provide a sophisticated battery-swap infrastructure, offering a fully charged battery within 3 minutes, so far at over…
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Berlin: Today, Elon Musk visited the Gigafactory 4, not far from Berlin, in Grünheide, to get the latest on the fast advancing construction progress, which begun in June this year. Elon first met with fans and the media, then took part in a topping out ceremony and toured the site to get a personal account…
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Compared to last year, European electric car sales tripled, with taking 7,2% of the market share, compared to last year with 2,4%. This besides the overall trend of declining car sales due to the various impacts from the coronavirus. Between April and June climate heating CO2 emitting car sales halved, while electric car sales grew…
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