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Fear, a master from Germany
May 3, 2024 by Climate News Editor
“German Angst” is as well known worldwide as the Audi slogan “Vorsprung durch Technik”. We Germans live up to our reputation as fear world champions when it comes to climate. It doesn't matter that other countries are affected by climate change in completely different ways than Germany. It is therefore no wonder that a particularly large number of concerts are given on the climate piano in Germany. Comforting, according to the survey, there seem to be countries where people are even more afraid. TOnline :
“According to a recent survey, around one in five people in Germany is worried about climate change every day. 19.8 percent stated this in a survey by the auditing firm PwC, which was available to the German Press Agency before publication.”
Read more at T-Online .
According to Focus , biodiesel, also known as HVO, has only a small price difference to diesel made from crude oil.
“However, if the so-called fossil diesel is replaced by a CO2-reduced fuel, the environmental pendulum clearly swings in favor of the combustion engine. HVO 100 is one of many synthetic fuels that are intended to ensure a better climate balance for road, train, ship and air traffic. Virtually the highest, because the “greenest” expansion stage is the e-fuels produced with renewable energies, i.e. electricity-based. There should even be an exception to the EU's ban on combustion engines from 2035 , although the
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use or even the admixture of these and other climate fuels could significantly improve the CO2 balance of combustion engines."
Forest conversion in Germany. Things will be difficult for some conifers in the future. The daily News :
“Christoph Leuschner, an expert in plant ecology at the University of Göttingen, told the Science Media Center (SMC): “Among the few commercial tree species in Central Europe today - especially spruce, pine, beech, oak, Douglas fir - it is primarily spruce, but in In the drier lowland regions, beech and pine also lose vitality and show increased mortality.” One reason for this is that trees currently being planted for reforestation must be suitable not only for current climate conditions, but also for future ones - for example, they must be able to withstand the cold and frost of the next few years as well as one at the end of the 21st century. century to withstand hotter and possibly drier climates. According to the current study, this effect already leads to regional bottlenecks if current management rules for forest areas were used. However, the diversity of suitable tree species in Europe already varies greatly from region to region, for example between Germany, Finland and Spain. An extinction of just a few available species in a habitat with already low biodiversity can lead to a critical reduction in the total number of suitable species, while in other regions a larger selection may remain.
Coal imports to Europe are declining. Montelnews :
“In March, imports at the key terminals in the region were still at 2.6 million t, while the five-year average is even at 4.2 million t. It was also the lowest value since DBX began recording data in January 2015. According to preliminary estimates, imports are likely to fall to 1.8 million tonnes in May. “Demand from the energy industry is low due to poor generation margins in coal-fired power plants,” Alex Claude, managing director of DBX, told Montel.
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How was April 2024? A little too warm, but we are a little away from the record value of 2018. It was also wetter than in the comparable periods.
DWD:
“The average temperature in April 2024 was almost 10.0 degrees Celsius (°C), a good 2.6 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period 1961 to 1990 (7.4 °C). Compared to the current and warmer comparison period from 1991 to 2020 (9.0 °C), the deviation was still 1.0 degrees. The month was once again much too mild, but it is a long way from the record from 2018 of 12.3 degrees. The large temperature fluctuations were particularly noticeable. On the 6th, 30.1 C was reached in the Upper Rhine Graben at the Ohlsbach station, not only the monthly high in the first decade, but also the first hot day of 2024! But it was also exceptionally warm this early in April in many other regions. In contrast, temperatures fell towards the middle of the month and moved into the light to moderate night frost range at the beginning of the third decade. The minimum was recorded on the 23rd in Deutschneudorf-Brüderwiese in the Erzgebirge with -8.8 °C. These night frosts were a significant damper, especially for nature, and caused major damage to the vegetation.
Slightly above average rainfall, but inhomogeneous distribution.
Around 64 liters per square meter (l/m²) of precipitation fell in the second spring month of 2024, which corresponds to an increase of around 11 percent compared to the reference period 1961 to 1990 (58 l/m²). Compared to the drier period from 1991 to 2020 (45 l/m²), there was a surplus of 44 percent. However, the “wet” was very inhomogeneously distributed and fell as rain, sleet and snow. While one and a half to two times as much precipitation was observed in the northwest half, the values, especially in the east, were sometimes a third below target. Especially around Berlin, only 20 l/m² fell. On the 19th, Schöfweg in the Bavarian Forest reported more than twice as much in one day with 49.7 l/m². In the high altitudes of the mountains, the precipitation was also
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sometimes retained in the form of snow in the second half of the month.”
Congratulations to Heinrich Strößenreuhter from the Climate Union. There he leads life as a submariner and is currently flirting with the position of Senator for Transport in Berlin, after this position has just become vacant again. But, more importantly, he survived the tropical night in Berlin. Tropical nights are nights on which the temperature does not drop below 20 degrees. Which she stupidly did. The temperature in Berlin dropped to up to 8 degrees. This man could single-handedly stop global warming as a senator, why not let him do it?
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