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The EU’s reputation as a model of environmental responsibility may soon be history. The European Commission wants to forgo ambitious climate protection goals and pave the way for fracking — jeopardizing Germany’s touted energy revolution in the process. Gregor Peter Schmitz Der Spiegel 1/15/2014 The climate between Brussels and Berlin is polluted, something European Commission […] January 19th, 2014 | Tags: "climate change", "global warming", Angela Merkel, Carbon emissions, European Commission, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, ice age, Jose Manuel Barroso, renewable energy, solar cycles | Category: Energy, Environment, European Union, Germany | Comments are closed
Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he argues that the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate change are overstated and supported by weak science. …the […] February 9th, 2012 | Tags: "global warming", CO2, coal, Cycle 25, Fritz Vahrenholt, Himalayas, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jochem Marotzke, oil industry, renewable energy, Social Democratic Party (SPD), solar cycles | Category: Asia, Books/media, Energy, Environment, Europe, Germany, Politics, United Nations | Comments are closed
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