The Base or the Bird
The US Air Force is building more bases in the Pacific Ocean. Object: war with China? The Air Force is clearing out what's left of the...
top of page
Search
Julie Wornan
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Ia Aanstoot, dynamic young Swedish climate activist
Ia Aanstoot was 17 when she participated as a delegate to the COP27 climate conference. About an hour before the release of the final...
19 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Aug 29
- 1 min
If the ice goes, so do the penguins!
“Global warming” starts with “Ocean warming” Most of Earth's excess heat is actually in our oceans, and predominantly around Antarctica....
6 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Aug 25
- 2 min
How dangerous is the Fukushima waste water?
Twelve years after a powerful earthquake and ensuing tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the plant's operator,...
15 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Coal Power Plants to Small Modular Reactors
What's an SMR? Small modular reactors (SMRs) are advanced nuclear reactors with about one-third of the capacity of traditional nuclear...
16 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Aug 20
- 3 min
Let's Dethrone King Oil!
Carbon capture, a fig leaf for Big Oil We cannot beat climate change without drastically reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. This...
14 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Aug 15
- 1 min
A Victory for Climate Justice
In a lawsuit called Held v. State of Montana, sixteen plaintiffs aged from 5 to 22 alleged that state officials violated their...
10 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Aug 1
- 1 min
Fossil Fuels, Anybody?
July 2023 was the hottest month in more than 120,000 years of recorded history. Heat waves scorched large parts of Europe, North America...
10 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Jul 19
- 2 min
We were promised Climate Change. It's here.
Phoenix, Arizona (USA) has suffered temperatures above 43°C for 19 days straight. Large swaths of Europe, the US, Asia, and Africa have...
25 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Jul 9
- 1 min
Out of the frying pan, into the fire
June 2023 was the hottest June on record. Temperatures exceeded the 1991-2020 average by 0.5C. Ocean temperatures rose alarmingly....
13 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- May 27
- 1 min
Energy from the sun is not problem-free
Building massive solar farms in the world’s deserts seems at first view like a great idea. But we are seeing some unintended...
23 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- May 9
- 2 min
Catastrophic Climate Change
Extreme weather events are becoming more common due to climate change. The average global temperature in 2022 was about 1.15°C above...
20 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Apr 4
- 2 min
The Dark Side of "Green"
The use of wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars is spreading. But what happens when they reach the end of their lives? The...
25 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Mar 19
- 2 min
Drill, Baby, Drill
As 2008 Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin proclaimed, "The chant is 'drill, baby, drill.' And that's what we hear all across this...
17 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Mar 2
- 2 min
Well, well, well !
There are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields in the world. But a great many wells have been abandoned when no longer economically...
27 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Feb 12
- 2 min
They Lie, People Die
The major oil companies knew as early as 1950 that their products were killing us. They hid their knowledge and continued with business...
46 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Jan 17
- 4 min
The German Bretzel
Some facts: a) Germans like warm houses, cooked food, trips in cars and industrial products - as we all do. These things require lots of...
27 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Jan 7
- 2 min
A year of Climate Disaster
2022 was a year of extreme weather events: severe storms, record-breaking floods, droughts, typhoons, heatwaves. Few regions were spared....
25 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Dec 1, 2022
- 2 min
How about Never?
"The rich world’s governments arrived at the COP27 conference in Egypt saying 'It’s now or never.' They left saying 'How about never?' " -...
29 views0 comments
Julie Wornan
- Nov 14, 2022
- 2 min
WE ARE ALL ENDANGERED
Thousands march to demand climate justice in London and around the world Climate activists from all over gathered on Saturday 12 November...
34 views0 comments
Blog
bottom of page