Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating
More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas facilities. The worst single leak spewed the pollution at a rate equivalent to 67m running cars.
The Nuclear “War” We Get in Ukraine May Not Be the One We Expect
In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the “unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” Einstein’s forecast remains prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks.
'Feels pretty good': Oil and gas investment in Canada to hit $40 billion in 2023, CAPP says
Up 11 per cent from last year, but still well off levels in 2014 when oil prices last boomed
CALGARY — Investment in oil and gas production in Canada will jump by 11 per cent to hit $40 billion in 2023, the country’s largest fossil fuel industry group said Wednesday.
It’s not ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ if campaigners cannot explain their motivations to a jury
To tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”: this is the oath defendants in an English court must take. But when David Nixon sought to do so, he was sent to jail.
Sea ice helps protect glaciers and ice caps that would cause massive sea level rise when lost, scientists warn
The area of sea ice around Antarctica has hit a record low, with scientists reporting “never having seen such an extreme situation before”. The ice extent is expected to shrink even further before this year’s summer melting season ends.
Germany benefited from the cancellation of most of its debt as of February 27, 1953 (...) no other country has received such a favourable treatment. - Eric Toussaint
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27.2.2023
Open Letter to Christian Lindner, Finance Minister of Germany
