Sebastian Pollok, stellvertretender Vorsitzender beim Startup-Verband, führt das auch auf deutsche „Weltklasse-Forschung“ zurück. Damit eröffneten Gründer der deutschen Wirtschaft spannende Geschäftsfelder der Zukunft wie Kernfusion oder Quantencomputing.

To visualise it another way (given I don't have an intuitive grasp for the total area of the UK) - here's the historical UK total coal production visualised as a 3km wide cube in central London. Its combustion has been responsible for about 3pct of mankind's carbon emissions to date.

"Insured hurricane losses are 11% higher than they would have been without global warming." And, yet, some hedge funds have found that an opportunity to take risk off insurers and be rewarded in huge profits. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

How a Physics Whiz Made a Fortune Betting on Nature’s Catastrophes

John Seo used his scientific knowledge to develop a winning formula for trading catastrophe bonds — a market that’s booming thanks to climate change and inflation.

Climate resilience is important. Thinking of everyone in North Carolina today....

Nnpr.orgSep 30, 2024 7:51pm

Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.

A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry

Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.

😭but why are UK electricity prices so high😭

“Everyone thought this was a safe place, somewhere you could move with your kids for the long term, so this is just unimaginable, it’s catastrophic,” said Anna Jane Joyner, a climate campaigner who grew up in the area. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

‘Nowhere is safe’: shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis

The historic North Carolina city was touted as a climate ‘haven’ – a reputation deadly Hurricane Helene left in ruins

The day.of.year SST plot from ClimateReanalyzer is powerful, but tends to make recent years seem unduly unexpected. The eye assumes all grey lines are drawn from a random distribution with no way of seeing historical trends. Exactly the same data plotted continuously highlights the constant uptick

Extreme weather and plant diseases have driven cocoa prices up. This is a climate security issue. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Cameroon farmers turn to vigilantes and amulets to stop cocoa theft

Rising cocoa prices driven by global production shortfalls have led to increased thefts of the commodity in farms in Cameroon, farmers and authorities say, forcing farmers to turn to machete-armed vigilantes, and amulets to stop thieves.

Ich glaube, viele verstehen auch nicht, dass es beim Antrag um das AfD-Verbot nicht um alles oder nichts geht. Auch wenn das gesamte Verbot nicht kommt, sind die Chancen für einen Entzug der Parteienfinanzierung oder Verbots einzelner Landesverbände wie Thüringen noch besser.

Von der CSU bisher kein Ton dazu. Aber solange keiner gendert, kifft oder Mustafa heißt, ist das wohl keine Aufregung wert.

Oktoberfest: Bereits 180 hilfesuchende Frauen im "Safe Space"

Das Oktoberfest in München hat auch eine dunkle Seite: Mehr als 300 Straftaten wurden in der ersten Halbzeit festgestellt – und rund 180 Frauen und Mädchen haben im "Safe Space" Hilfe gesucht, weil si...