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Julie Wornan
Jun 27, 20211 min read
KLIMAKRISE? KERNKRAFT!
Nuclear Energy for Climate Germany is failing to meet its climate targets. Germany aims to be CO₂-neutral by 2050. It cannot meet its...
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Julie Wornan
Jun 13, 20212 min read
Burning forests for biomass is a really bad idea
Standing forests sequester carbon, a crucial service to our planet threatened by climate change. Forests shelter wildlife. The...
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Julie Wornan
Jun 4, 20212 min read
Tax the Carbon
“The fastest way to phase down fossil fuel use is via a steadily rising carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies.“ James Hansen,...
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Julie Wornan
May 17, 20214 min read
Tilting toward windmills
In my graphic book Let’s Save the Planet, my young protagonists praise wind turbines, calling them “wind angels” and declaring, “We love...
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Julie Wornan
May 10, 20213 min read
The Battle for the Climate
La Bataille pour le Climate (The Battle for the Climate) by Myrto Tripathi Clear, well reasoned, factual but not excessive technical,...
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Julie Wornan
Mar 8, 20211 min read
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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Julie Wornan
Mar 7, 20211 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20202 min read
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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Liza K. Tóth
Aug 28, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20203 min read
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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Julie Wornan
Apr 2, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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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Julie Wornan
Feb 22, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20201 min read
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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