Axel Bojanowski auf welt.de:
Der Fehlschluss, der ein Milliarden-Geschäft ermöglichte
Der Klimawandel habe Katastrophen verschärft, melden Medien von „Spiegel“ bis „Tagesschau“ unter Verweis auf eine Versicherung. Viele Medien gehen einer Geschäftsstrategie auf den Leim, die Rekordgewinne abwirft.
Alljährlich Anfang Januar stellt Rückversicherer Munich Re seine Katastrophen-Bilanz vor, verbindet sie ungelenk mit der globalen Erwärmung, und stets berichten Medien mit großen Schlagzeilen. So auch diese Woche: „Spiegel“, „Deutschlandfunk“, „ntv“, „Tagesschau“ und viele andere meldeten, Zahlen der Versicherung dokumentierten im vergangenen Jahr verschlimmerte Wetterextreme aufgrund des Klimawandels.
Vor 31 Jahren ging es los. Im März 1995, zwei Tage vor Beginn der ersten UN-Klimaverhandlungen in Berlin, trafen sich Manager großer Versicherungen mit den Vertretern von Banken, Umweltverbänden und Firmen der Solarenergiebranche, um die globale Erwärmung als Geschäftsfeld auszuloten. Sie witterten angesichts der aufgekommenen Klimadebatte ihre Chance.
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Un geólogo cree que el hombre no puede cambiar el clima y critica el «catastrofismo climático»
Para Sáenz de Santa María, el actual aumento de temperaturas se inscribe en la misma dinámica que ha marcado la historia geológica del planeta.
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Roger Pielke Jr auf The Honest Broker:
Top Five Climate Science Scandals 2025
Bad science, Trump vengeance, USNCA, „climate risk,“ and the top holds steady!Two things are true at once — First, humans influence the climate system, presenting risks that merit policy attention. Second, climate research, broadly construed, is a deeply politicized endeavor, leaving much room for improvement.
One feature of the deep politicization of climate is that some people wish to only believe one of these two truths. Developing effective policies related to energy, development, extreme events and disasters depends upon grappling effectively with these two truths.
In 2024, I created a table of the top five climate science scandals in an effort to shine a bright light on areas where the climate community could readily address some of the most egregious failures within the field.
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Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty, deepening global pullback
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from a bedrock climate treaty was slammed Thursday by the EU, which vowed to keep tackling the crisis with other nations.
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Roger Pielke Jr auf The Honest Broker:
The Weather Truther Playbook
I’ve been sitting on this post for a long time. When I first drafted it, I thought it was partially tongue-in-cheek and poking a bit of fun. As time has gone on and I’ve observed the incredible efforts being made to undermine the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mainstream science, I’ve decided that this post reflects reality more than I would have liked.
The main purpose of this post is to provide me with a concise language to describe this movement and its participants, that I can use going forward. This post characterizes the Weather Truthers and their playbook.
Longtime THB readers will be aware that a parallel universe has developed related to climate change and extreme weather. This parallel universe — science-like but not science — is characterized by:
- Claims that “climate” is a cause of extreme weather or its intensification;
- The invention of “extreme event attribution” to counter the IPCC detection and attribution framework;
- The invention of the concept of novel “climate risk,” which marks a clean break from risks of the past;
- A cottage industry of research focused on extreme and implausible climate scenarios that projects scary changes in extremes in the distant future, which are then time-traveled back to today to support the most extreme claims of causal attribution;
- A journalistic climate beat which hypes every extreme event as being made worse by, linked to, fueled by “climate;”
- A very small group of usual suspects willing to offer quotable quotes on the supposed “climate” causality connections to the event-that-just-happened;
- The repeated claim that addressing the crisis of escalating extreme weather requires rapidly reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Each of these claims is counter to the terminology, frameworks, and assessments of the IPCC and the broad base of research on which the work of the IPCC is based upon. Those making such claims are every bit as incorrect as those who claim that humans cannot affect the climate, or that climate change is a hoax, or that climate science and policy is a scam.
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BILD:
Nach Berlin-Blackout
Interne Grünen-Mail: Sprecht NICHT über linksextreme Täter!Warum möchten die Grünen nicht über die Täter sprechen, die den Anschlag auf das Berliner Stromnetz verübt haben und Zehntausende Menschen frieren ließen?
Ein internes Schreiben der Berliner Grünen-Fraktion zeigt, dass die Partei in der Debatte um den Anschlag von den Tätern ablenken möchte. Stattdessen soll die Schuld beim Regierenden Bürgermeister Kai Wegner (CDU) abgeladen werden.