Floods and tornadoes in NSW, Australia
More than 400 mm of rain on the east coast of Australia causes severe flooding. More rain is forecast until Saturday.
Sources:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/ungluecke/hunderte-menschen-f
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ozeanien/australien-ueberschwemmunge
Another eruption from Etna volcano
It is a series of more than 12 outbreaks in a short period of time.
Sources:
https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/der-aetna-spuckt-wieder-lava-und-asche-und
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/aetna-ausbruch-schwefeldioxid-und-
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Vulkanausbrüche zeitnah in vielen Erdteilen
https://weather.com/de-DE/wissen/umwelt/news/2021-03-06-unheimliche-se
Last change: Isolde Moussot 08.03.2021
Der Ätna in Italien, Merapi auf Java, Sinabung auf Sulawesi, und Pacaya in Guatemala gleich 3 mal in kurzer Zeit.
Sources:
https://weather.com/de-DE/wissen/umwelt/news/2021-03-06-unheimliche-se
Further links:
https://www.swr.de/wissen/1000-antworten/wissenschaft-und-forschung/fu
2.428 billion euros in compensation payments for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants are to be paid to the operators
By the end of 2022 at the latest, the last nuclear power plant in Germany will be taken off the grid. In return, energy companies will receive compensation payments: 1.425 billion euros to Vattenfall, 880 million euros to RWE, 80 million euros to EnBW and 42.5 million euros to E.ON/PreussenElektra.
Sources:
https://www.bmu.de/pressemitteilung/bundesregierung-und-energieversorg
Further links:
https://www.klima27.com/index.php?page=show_news_details_1&news_id=828
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertrag_%C3%BCber_die_Energiecharta
https://www.wetter.de/cms/energiecharta-vertrag-vattenfall-verklagt-un
The strongest earthquake occurred near the Kermadec Islands, about 800 kilometres northeast of New Zealand's North Island. There is a tsumami danger. Residents are asked to move to higher ground.
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Livevideo East Coast New Zealand
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/katastrophen/id_89590964/
https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/staerke-7-3-tsunami-warnung-nach-sc
Further links:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Erdbeben_in_Neuseeland
Billions in compensation for the coal phase-out could violate EU law
https://www.nau.ch/news/europa/entschadigungen-fur-kohleausstieg-verst
4.35 billion euros are to be paid to RWE and Leag in Germany from taxpayers' money to stop coal-fired power generation. The EU is now examining whether this violates EU law.
Sources:
https://www.nau.ch/news/europa/entschadigungen-fur-kohleausstieg-verst
Further links:
https://www.klima27.com/index.php?page=show_news_details_1&news_id=527
Sinabung volcano in Sumatra has erupted
A kilometre-high ash cloud was ejected. For centuries it was inactive. Since 2010 it has erupted again and again.
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A giant iceberg has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica
Last change: Isolde Moussot 03.03.2021
The new iceberg has a size of 1 270 km².
Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47692895
https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Environnement/Un-iceberg-geant-de-la-t
https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/brunt-ice-shelf-in-antarctica-calves/
https://m.geo.de/natur/nachhaltigkeit/24111-rtkl-naturphaenomen-gigant
Study shows dramatic slowdown of the Gulf Stream
https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2021-02/klimawandel-golfstrom-abschw
Last change: Isolde Moussot 26.02.2021
Scientists from Ireland, Great Britain and Germany provide the result of a study according to which the Gulf steome is weaker than it has been for at least 1000 years. -> To translate the source texts, deepl.com can be used, for example.
Sources:
https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2021-02/klimawandel-golfstrom-abschw
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/wahrscheinlich-folge-des-klimawande
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/icarus/news/gulf-stream-system-its-w
Further links:
https://www.quarks.de/umwelt/klimawandel/was-passiert-wenn-der-golfstr
https://www.klima27.com/index.php?page=gulf_stream
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-record-high-arctic-freshwater-labrador-s
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/icarus/news/maynooth-university-post
Gulf Stream could weaken by 34-45% by 2100
Last change: Isolde Moussot 27.02.2021
according to the latest generation of climate models," says Rahmstorf, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. "This could bring us dangerously close to the tipping point where the flow becomes unstable."
Sources:
https://m.geo.de/natur/oekologie/24080-rtkl-erderwaermung-dem-golfstro
Nonsense of the week
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/technologie/windkraft-abbau-windr
Functioning wind turbines in Germany are now being dismantled after 20 years of successful electricity production for one reason only, because the EEG subsidy is expiring and it is only possible to sell the electricity on the market for 1 cent or even less per kilowatt.
Sources:
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/technologie/windkraft-abbau-windr
Grain prices rise to record highs
https://www.agrarheute.com/markt/marktfruechte/weizenpreise-brechen-al
At times over 240 euros per tonne. Prices for maize, soya and rapeseed also rose sharply.
Sources:
https://www.agrarheute.com/markt/marktfruechte/weizenpreise-brechen-al