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Mar 8
1 min

Is the AMOC Running Amok?

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is part of the Gulf Stream, an ocean circulation system that carries warm water...

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The Energy Charter Treaty is locking us into Fossil Fuels

Julie Wornan

Mar 7
1 min

The Energy Charter Treaty is locking us into Fossil Fuels

The 1994 Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) was designed to promote inter-governmental cooperation in the energy sector and to boost investment...

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Julie Wornan

Feb 22
3 min

THE ICE OF TEXAS

In mid February, a massive winter storm overwhelmed much of North America, knocking out power grids in the freezing weather. In Texas,...

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Julie Wornan

Jan 31
1 min

BEAUTY AND THE ATOM

Isabelle Boemeke is a 30-year-old Brazilian model living in California, interested in science, and worried about the climate (as we all...

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Julie Wornan

Jan 28
1 min

The Other Problem with Oil

“Oil has made and destroyed empires.” Oil, along with its sister fossil fuels coal and natural gas, has given us a heretofore...

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Julie Wornan

Oct 26, 2020
2 min

France: Less Nuclear - More Coal

The French pride themselves on being a rational people, with reason: didn’t they give the world a metric system which combines sizes,...

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Will the US go from Dunce’s Corner to Front of the Class on Climate in the Next Year?

Liza K. Tóth

Aug 28, 2020
3 min

Will the US go from Dunce’s Corner to Front of the Class on Climate in the Next Year?

Is the Biden Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution Cause for optimism?

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Julie Wornan

Jul 29, 2020
2 min

Does France Need Windmills?

The French Law on Energy Transition for Green Growth (LTECV) stipulates that the share of nuclear in electricity generation, currently...

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Julie Wornan

Jun 28, 2020
3 min

The climate will miss you, Fessenheim

On June 30, 2020, Unit 2 of the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant in Alsace (eastern France) will be permanently shut down. Unit 1 was...

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How can the world’s nuclear watchdog help protect us from COVID-19?

Julie Wornan

Apr 2, 2020
1 min

How can the world’s nuclear watchdog help protect us from COVID-19?

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is dispatching equipment to more than 40 countries to enable them to use a nuclear-derived...

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Liza K. Tóth

Mar 4, 2020
2 min

Dramatic Pollution Reduction in China!

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using modified Copernicus Sentinel 5P data processed by the European Space Agency....

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A BASELESS DECISION AND A SAD DAY FOR CLIMATE

Julie Wornan

Feb 21, 2020
3 min

A BASELESS DECISION AND A SAD DAY FOR CLIMATE

22 February 2020. This date marks the permanent closure of the first of two reactors at the nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, eastern...

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Julie Wornan

Feb 6, 2020
2 min

Methane: Sniffing out the Leaks

Methane gas (CH4) may be produced in two ways. Thermogenic methane, the source of most natural gas reserves, is produced by the effects...

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Julie Wornan

Jan 25, 2020
3 min

Energiewende is a loser

The German policy of Energiewende, the shift away from nuclear energy in favor of renewables, is failing the tests of climate, economy,...

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Julie Wornan

Jan 18, 2020
1 min

Do Carbon Offset Trading Schemes Work?

Emissions trading systems enable countries to buy and trade credits from others that have reduced their GHG emissions. Countries that...

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Julie Wornan

Dec 2, 2019
5 min

Fashion and the Planet

Fashion may be fun, but it’s one of the world’s most wasteful and polluting industries. The UN estimates that 10% of total global...

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Why are we still subsidising fossil fuels?

Julie Wornan

Nov 19, 2019
2 min

Why are we still subsidising fossil fuels?

To avoid climate catastrophe, we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by close to 6% every year until 2050. This means seriously...

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Julie Wornan

Nov 9, 2019
2 min

Nuclear, the Cinderella of Energy

In September 2018, fifty people met up in Amsterdam, invited by a Californian, Michael Shellenberger, to figure out how to create one...

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