We did it. The climate and the earth are slowly returning to balance. #klima27
I write to you from the year 2027
Last change: Isolde Moussot 02.08.2020
We have reduced CO2 emissions to such an extent that now even more CO2 is absorbed than is emitted. So the climate can gradually recover. It will take years before the climate is completely back in balance, but it is now moving steadily in the right direction.
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Further links:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/frankreich-buergerrat-will-klim
https://www.klima27.com/index.php?page=show_news_details_1&news_id=701
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A week of over 50 degrees in Iraq
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/temperature-in-middle-east-tops-50c
Baghdad this week saw the highest and second-highest temperatures recorded since records began. Temperatures above 50 degrees have been rare in Iraq.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/temperature-in-middle-east-tops-50c
54 degrees in southern Iraq
In addition to this, the power still fails again and again. Even people who are lucky enough to own an air conditioner can only use it to a very limited extent.
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The city of Cologne promotes the purchase and load bikes
https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/presse/mitteilungen/
This is intended to promote emission-free transport.
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https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/presse/mitteilungen/
SOS record temperatures on Earth - 51.67 degrees Celsius in Baghdad
Last change: Isolde Moussot 30.07.2020
This is the highest temperature ever measured there. In Beirut in Lebanon it was on Tuesday, 28.7.2020, with 45.4 degrees, as hot as never before in Lebanon. In Damascus in Syria it was with 46 degrees on Tuesday also as hot as never before.
Sources:
https://news-24.fr/bagdad-en-irak-atteint-125-degres-un-record/
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/wetter-50-grad-in-bagdad-1.3088380
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/07/29/baghdad-iraq-heat-re
https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/record-temperatures-in-iraq-add-
https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/international/sie-schwitzen-jetzt-schon
The drought in Germany is killing our forests
The drought of the last two years has caused severe damage to forests. Last year alone, 32 million cubic metres of damaged wood were felled, which is 6 times as much as in 2017. During the entire period of regulated forest management, i.e. for 200 years, there has been no forest damage on such
Sources:
https://www.tagesschau.de/waldschaeden-103.html
https://www.rnd.de/wissen/waldschaden-nehmen-deutlich-zu-zahl-geschadi
Hurricane Hanna hits Texas and Mexico
Storm damage, flooding and power failures in Texas and Mexico are caused by storm Hanna.
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Solar modules, fold out like an accordion
An idea from Switzerland for the roofing of parking lots, sewage treatment plants and similar infrastructures without many supporting pillars.
Sources:
https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/dhp-technology-will-parkplaetze-und-kl
21.7 degrees Celsius in Svalbard, Arctic
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/spitzbergen-temperatur-101.html
Normally it is only 5 to 8 degrees warm there at this time of year.
Sources:
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/spitzbergen-temperatur-101.html
Temperature record on the Arctic archipelago Spitsbergen
https://www.t-online.de/nachhaltigkeit/id_88293424/hoechster-wert-seit
Last change: Isolde Moussot 28.07.2020
It's 21.2 degrees today. Normally it is only 5 to 8 degrees in July. July is the warmest month of the year there. In the Russian part of the Arctic, temperatures have been 5 degrees above normal since January.
Sources:
https://www.t-online.de/nachhaltigkeit/id_88293424/hoechster-wert-seit
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/spitzbergen-temperatur-101.html
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Methane escapes from the sea floor in Antarctica
https://www.morgenpost.de/vermischtes/article229572460/Treibhausgase-M
Researchers are very concerned about the rapid methane release in the Antarctic Ross Sea, southeast of New Zealand. Methane is 25 times more harmful to the climate than CO2, and the source of the methane is believed to be thousands of years old algae deposits embedded under sediments.
Sources:
https://www.morgenpost.de/vermischtes/article229572460/Treibhausgase-M
https://www.express.de/zukunft/natur-klima/auf-dem-meeresboden-forsche
Floods and landslides in Nepal after heavy rain
At least 40 people have died.