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Melbourne and Sydney should prepare for 50-degree Celsius (122-degree Fahrenheit) summer days
Melbourne and Sydney should prepare for 50-degree Celsius days
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A new study warns that Melbourne and Sydney should prepare for 50-degree Celsius (122-degree Fahrenheit) summer days under the Paris Agreement global warming limit of 2 degrees Celsius (4 degrees Fahrenheit).
The new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, assessed the potential magnitude of future extreme temperatures in Australia under Paris targets of an increase in global temperatures of 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius (3 and 4 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
“Major Australian cities, such as Sydney and Melbourne, may experience unprecedented temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius under 2 degrees of global warming,” said Sophie Lewis, a climate researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia and lead author of the new study. “The increase in Australian summer temperatures indicates that other major cities should also be prepared for unprecedented future extreme heat. Our climate modeling has projected daily temperatures of up to 3.8 degrees Celsius [7 degrees Fahrenheit] above existing records in Victoria and New South Wales, despite the ambitious Paris efforts to curb warming.”…more
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- RESEARCH LETTERS
- CLIMATE
Australia’s Unprecedented Future Temperature Extremes Under Paris Limits to Warming
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- 10.1002/2017GL074612
Jewish Voice from Germany
https://www.lbi.org/events/jewish-voice-from-germany/
“At a time when Germany boasts the fastest growing Jewish community in the world, Jewish Voice from Germany focuses on the long, complex, and sensitive connection between the country and its Jewish citizens who were “Germans” until the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 turned them into “Jews.” Today, there is a vibrant revival of Jewish life, diversity of Jewish opinion, and revitalization of an indissoluble link between Germany and Jews around the world. Rafael Seligmann captures the excitement, the pride, and the concerns of a new generation in the pages of Jewish Voice from Germany, which he founded nearly one year ago.
Please join Leo Baeck Institute for the American debut of this very important journalistic initiative that has received widespread acclaim from diplomats, policymakers, historians, and readers around the world. German Consul General in New York Busso von Alvensleben will also make remarks.
Dr. Rafael Seligmann, Publisher Jewish Voice from Germany
Rafael Seligmann is the author of numerous novels that deal with the Jewish experience in post-war Germany as well as non-fiction books about German history and Israeli security policy. Since 1978, he has contributed commentary to leading German magazines and newspapers including Spiegel, Bild, Die Welt, and taz. Born 1947 in Tel Aviv, he moved to Germany with his family at the age of 10. He founded Jewish Voice from Germany in 2012.”
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Milena Glimbovski, Germany Milena sells nude food – what on Earth is that?
http://www.dw.com/en/milena-glimbovski-germany/a-18742296
“The average German produces 250 kilograms (550 pounds) of waste every year. And if you go grocery shopping at a normal German supermarket, you’ll quickly see why: From meat to cheese, vegetables to fruit, most items on sale are wrapped in plastic. That’s something 25-year-old Milena Glimbovski couldn’t wrap her head around.
“Why is all of this food I buy every day wrapped in so much plastic? Is that really necessary?” Milena says. “I mean, it’s crazy: you can even buy ecologically friendly condoms, but you can’t get food without packaging,” she adds.
So she decided to set up Berlin’s first packaging-free supermarket. That was not a piece of cake: For example, finding suppliers who deliver food without packaging took her a whole six months.
What started as just an idea in 2012 finally became a reality in September 2014. Since then, Milena has been the proud owner of a small shop, aptly called “Original Unverpackt” (Original Unpackaged).
It is located in Berlin’s vibrant, trendy Kreuzberg district, and sells 400 different products – from nuts to noodles – all package-free. Customers can fill as much of each product as they want into small linen bags, Tupperware they bring from home, or glass jars they can get in Milena’s shop. As long as it’s reusable.”
Wrapped in plastic? No, thanks.
“Original Unverpackt” is a small supermarket that looks more like a kiosk, and yet it offers 500 different products – from nuts to noodles – all package-free.”
What does that have to do with the climate?
“Milena is doing the climate a big favor: In order to produce plastic wrapping, it takes fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal. About four percent of the world’s annual petroleum production is converted directly into making plastics, and another four percent gets burned to fuel the process. To produce one kilogram of plastic, six kilograms of carbon dioxide are emitted – that’s about as much as a 40-kilometer-long car ride emits. This obviously doesn’t do the climate any good.
Milena’s customers love not only the products, but also the shopping experience itself: Turns out that shuffling nuts into bags brought from home is actually way more fun than just tossing a pre-packaged bag of nuts into a cart.
But when they get to the spaghetti section, many customers are a bit helpless, Milena says. “They wonder: where could we possibly put that?” Spaghetti won’t fit in most Tupperware containers.
But Milena is used to solving problems, so she even has an answer to this: “Old Pringles tubes,” she says and smiles. Genius.”
- Date 06.10.2015
- Author Anne-Sophie Brändlin, Ruth Krause
- Related Subjects Berlin, Food, Waste, Recycling
- Keywords #climateroadtrip, recycling, food, Berlin, Kreuzberg, waste, plastic
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Europe: The reconstruction of the Free World, ULRIKE GUÉROT, ROBERT MENASSE, 30 March 2016
http://www.eurozine.com/europe-the-reconstruction-of-the-free-world/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike_Gu%C3%A9rot
German Publishers and Booksellers Association: Robert Menasse wins the German Book Prize 2017 for his Novel “Die Hauptstadt” (“The Capital”)
PR Newswire
Oct. 9, 2017, 12:55 PM
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany, Oct. 9, 2017 /CNW/ – The winner of the German Book Prize 2017 is Robert Menasse for his novel “Die Hauptstadt” (Suhrkamp).
Statement from the jury:
“The humane is always worth striving for; it is never reliably given: With his novel ‘Die Hauptstadt’, Robert Menasse vividly shows that this also applies to the European Union. With great dramaturgical skill, he light-handedly digs into the deepest layers of this world we call our own – making unmistakably clear that, among other things, the economy alone will not be able to guarantee us a peaceful future. Those who are undermining the peace project that is Europe are among us – not infrequently, ‘the others’ are we ourselves. With ‘Die Hauptstadt’, Robert Menasse has achieved the goal he set for himself: In the novel, contemporaneity is realised with such literary ability that contemporaries will recognise themselves in it and those born later will be better able to understand these times.”
Katharine Murphy: Our casual acceptance of terrorism measures endangers liberty
Katherine Murphy writes about it in The Guardian.
She says:
“State politicians waved through Malcolm Turnbull’s proposals for a face recognition database and 14-day detention with barely a shrug
Leaders in western democracies are quick to declare in times of national security emergencies that the threat of terrorism cannot change our way of life.
It really is time to cut the crap. Terrorism has changed our way of life, and in profound ways. . . . . ”
Further on she says: ” . . . things have changed.”
“We should not pretend otherwise. All the Churchillian rhetoric, while well intentioned and fashioned to soothe, insults the intelligence of the electorate.”
I agree with what Katherine Murphy says in her article. What do you think?
Sintra et al
I am very impressed by this very detailed post and want to reblog it.
I hardly know where to start with this post – no amount of images could cover the impressions, really, and it becomes clear that travelling vicariously is going to have its limits for some of you! How I admire the travel writers of old who must assume that their readers are unlikely to follow in their footsteps and to need to describe what they have seen in suitable phrasing…
We flew into Lisbon and very warm summer weather, picked up our rental car and headed to the coast for a few days, thanks to a wedding invitation – German friends have decided to tie the knot and as they are closely connected to Portugal, they decided festivities would take place there. Different!
On arrival, however, we were greeted by a very unrestrained and raging Atlantic crashing full force into the most westerly coast of Europe – and it had brought…
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‘Our Ocean’ conference tackling plastic waste and other threats to our seas
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“Plastic is now “on the menu,” Britain’s Prince Charles said as he kicked off the Our Ocean conference on Thursday, warning that “we are very close to reaching the point when whatever wild-caught fish you eat will contain plastic.”
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Source: Marcel Proust Biography
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pe-Pu/Proust-Marcel.html
Born: July 10, 1871
Auteuil, France
Died: November 18, 1922
Paris, France
French author
French novelist Marcel Proust was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His books abandoned plot and dramatic action in favor of the narrator‘s descriptions of his experiences in the world.
http://www.notablebiographies.com/knowledge/Marcel_Proust.html
Marcel Proust
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