Good morning, dear reader,
did Sandra Stein and Ylenia Ohm know what they were getting into? Maybe they just thought: close your eyes and think hard when they named the two low-pressure areas as weather godfathers. Mrs. Stein christened her low “Xandra”, Mrs. Ohm gave the next low her own first name, “Ylenia”. And that’s what they get out of it: countless uprooted trees, two motorists who were killed, chaos in the train traffic, boarded up schools, tens of thousands of people without electricity. The video of a Hamburg Elbe ferry, on which breakwaters smash the panes, illustrates the force of the hurricane. And the next storm is already approaching: “Zeynep” could rage even worse starting today. Was Mr. Julius Krebs aware of this when he named the low-pressure area?
The storm tore off parts of the roof of the Berlin Charité Clinic. (Source: Jörg Carstensen/dpa)
Now, we don’t want to blame anyone for being associated with drama without malicious intent. Especially since a spring storm like this is nothing unusual. weather. Nevertheless, the example of the unsuspecting gravure godparents can serve as a parable for a human attitude that unfortunately has more serious consequences elsewhere than a one-time hurricane: As Homo sapiens, we all unfortunately tend to run into catastrophes with our eyes wide open and are surprised afterwards that the disaster has catastrophic consequences.
Researchers commissioned by several American authorities have just presented an explosive study. As a result, the global Sea level faster than previously feared and threatens to flood entire regions in the foreseeable future.
According to this, the sea level could rise as much in the next 30 years as in the past 100 years.
Around the USA alone, the sea will rise by an average of up to 30 centimeters.
In just eight years, the water around New York will rise by about 23 centimeters.
By 2050, floods will be ten times more common than they are today.
(Source: t-online)
Let’s forgive American officials for focusing their calculations on their home country. We can also imagine what the development means for other regions of the world. For Bangladesh, for example, which is already largely below sea level. Or the multi-million metropolis Tokyo. Or Hamburg. My colleagues Rahel Zahlmann and Arno Wölk recently showed in an impressive animation that which dangers cities around the world have to prepare themselves for.
The ice on the poles and the glaciers is melting at record speed, even Mount Everest should be free of snow in the foreseeable future. The atmosphere is heated by the man-made greenhouse gas effect faster and faster, and so far none – mind you: none – of the international efforts to protect the climate have been sufficient to effectively solve the problem. There is no shortage of declarations of intent. Action is lacking.
Now there are some people who say: What the hell? Let’s just build dikes! This may even work to keep Hamburg, Copenhagen and Amsterdam livable, although real estate investors are already starting to look for higher locations. European countries are rich and can afford billions upon billions of euros for the coastal protection to spend Poorer countries cannot do that. Living with climate change in Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines – in other words in countries that are already heavily populated – will be a challenge that surpasses anything that has gone before. But African coastal states, Turkey, Greece and the Balkan countries will soon have much more water on their doorstep than they would like. If then there are also more severe storms and heat waves, one can imagine how the climate crisis will change the lives of millions of people. The World Bank expects up to 140 million climate refugees by 2050. It can be assumed that even if the majority ends up stranded in faraway Asia or Africa, many millions will also be pushing to Central Europe.
Please don’t get me wrong: Today’s dawn shouldn’t scare you. But maybe it can encourage those of us who have so far put off the annoying climate issue to rethink. We must tackle climate protection with determination now, and everyone can help. It doesn’t matter whether he’s sitting in the chancellery or at home on the sofa planning his next long-distance trip. Otherwise, not only our children will ask us why we ran into disaster with our eyes wide open. In 8, 15, 30 years many of us will be able to ask ourselves this question. I guess that wouldn’t be a nice feeling.
(Source: t-online)
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The world looks to Munich
When Vladimir Putin’s world view is analyzed these days, his appearance at the 2007 Munich Security Conference is often mentioned: Even then, the Russian President shocked the audience with aggressive rhetoric, accusing the United States of “monopolar world domination.” and castigated the eastward expansion of NATO. The 58th edition of the world’s most important security policy forum, which begins today, is calculated Russia not represented. Putin prefers in Moscow the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko with whose soldiers he is currently conducting joint military maneuvers on the Ukrainian border and who has just threatened the West with deploying nuclear weapons.
Nevertheless, the event has a top-class cast: The US becomes Secretary of State Antony Blink and Vice President Kamala Harris expected the delegation of the federal government will be from chancellor Olaf Scholz led, and also the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes. Research by the “Spiegel” colleagues is all the more remarkable: According to this, the consulting firm of the head of the security conference made money Wolfgang Ischingers heavily involved in the events and wanted to mediate in gun deals.
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Wieler stays away
Since the anger about the recovered status of Covid sufferers, there has been a crunch between Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and Lothar Wieler. The most recent round of prime ministers promptly withdrew the authority to determine the status from the Robert Koch Institute. Lauterbach wants to decide for himself again in the future who is considered vaccinated or recovered for how long. The fact that Mr. Wieler is not present when the minister goes to Corona briefing invites to the federal press conference, but should not be a sign of a rift: “Difficulties with scheduling” are the reason why this time RKI Vice Lars Schade informed about the infection process, it is said. A rogue who thinks evil of it.
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Kamila Valiewa couldn’t stand the pressure. (Source: imago images)
Despite allegations of doping, the figure skater went Kamila Valiewa as the favorite in the freestyle. The 15-year-old made a mistake and had to bury her dreams of gold – and received an ice-cold reaction from her trainer. My colleague Benjamin Zurmühl finds clear words for the drudgery in Russian top-class sport.
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France wants to withdraw its soldiers from Mali, Germany could follow. Where should the Bundeswehr be deployed at all in the future – and with what goals? Our reporters asked around in politics.
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For decades, environmentalists have been protesting against the expansion of a freeway in the east of Frankfurt. Now activists occupied a forest. Our reporter Stefan Simon visited them.
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How is the “climate money” supposed to work for all citizens? My colleague Theresa Crysmann explains it to you.
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(Source: UPI Photo/imago images)
This particular space shuttle needed some help 45 years ago. Why NASA Dared the Risky Maneuver read on our historical picture.
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What amuses me?
Not everyone is the same in the storm.
(Source: Mario Lars)
I wish you a steady day. Whether inside or outside.
Best regards,
Her
Florian Harms
Editor-in-Chief t-online
E-mail: [email protected]
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