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☆ Facebook co-founder Moskovitz funds research into cooling the Earth with sunlight reflection
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

(It's sometimes called solar radiation modification or solar geoengineering.) But it's potentially important, it could be very, very helpful, it could be disastrous," Stone told CNBC. And so it goes for solar geoengineering," Stone said. Everyone perceives it to be controversial," Camilloni told CNBC. "This is no one's Plan A for how you deal with climate risk, and whatever happens, we have to cut our emissions," Stone told CNBC.

Below are answers to the most urgent questions:HOW HAS GERMANY RESPONDED TO THE LOSS OF RUSSIAN GAS? Germany launched a multi-layered strategy to reign in demand and source alternatives following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent decline in gas deliveries. Germany is now getting more pipeline gas from neighbouring Europe and Norway, buying liquefied natural gas (LNG) via existing European terminals, and constructing new LNG terminals on German coastlines, as well as achieving gas savings. Gas stocks are 89% full, enough to get Germany to the end of March even in a prolonged cold spell, according to most recent statistics, before re-filling starts in the April to September storage season. As a rule of thumb, Germany depletes its stocks by a rate of around 1% per day if temperatures fall below zero degrees, the regulator has said.

☆ German gas storage operators optimistic for next winter
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - German gas storage operators expressed optimism on Tuesday that there will not be supply problems next winter due to declining consumption and said there is no chance of shortage this winter. Even if Russian pipeline deliveries cease completely and liquefied natural gas imports (LNG) were to decrease, it would be possible to refill facilities for the 2023-24 cold season, said the INES German gas storage system operators association. For this winter, no shortage is expected, it added. "Even with extremely low temperatures and the occurrence of risk factors, there will be no gas shortage in Germany," said INES. At present, storage facilities are still more than 90% full.

☆ Chef José Andrés and his daughters go on a Spanish food tour in new TV show
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

On his new TV show, celebrated chef José Andrés goes into a restaurant kitchen in Spain and confronts a massive moray eel. “Nothing can be more simple and more sophisticated at the same time.”That eel is just one delicious moment in Discovery+’s “José Andrés and Family in Spain,” which follows the chef, restaurateur and humanitarian on a food tour through his homeland with his three American-raised daughters, Carlota, Inés and Lucia Andrés. The elder Andrés — who has drawn attention to Spanish food and helped put a spotlight on humanitarian disasters with his World Central Kitchen — can hardily contain himself. “Happiness happens when you mix different people and different colors and different places all in one plate,” José Andrés says onscreen. “Spain is the excuse,” says José Andrés.

☆ Ahead of COP27, researchers call for climate compensation fund
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Kate Abnett | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BRUSSELS, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Channelling climate compensation payments through existing funds will not work for vulnerable communities, a team of international researchers said on Tuesday, arguing that a new fund be created. Representatives of the nearly 200 countries attending COP27 will be weighing whether to create some form of compensation fund - a central demand by developing countries worldwide. In a report on Tuesday, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute backed the case for a new fund. For example, most climate finance takes the form of loans, rather than the small grants the researchers said would support vulnerable communities without burdening them with debt. The researchers said that, in principle, those responsible for causing climate change should be on the hook for paying compensation - but acknowledged that the idea was politically contentious.

☆ Why the current oil boom for Arab states may be their last
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

During previous oil booms, Gulf states were seen as squandering their wealth on wasteful and inefficient investments, building sprees and buying weapons, as well as handouts to citizens . Gulf states appear to be working on diversifying. Since the last oil boom that ended in 2014, four of the six Gulf states have introduced value-added tax and the UAE has gone further by starting a corporate income levy . None of the Gulf states have an income tax. Critics counter that it is in the oil exporters' interest to push that narrative, but oil states have pointed to the rise in crude demand that coincided with the removal of Covid-19 restrictions around the world.

☆ Какие подарки получила Майя Санду за последние 3 месяца
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-12 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: +2 min

Президент Молдовы Майя Санду за первые три месяца 2021 года получила подарков на 60 911 леев. Информация была опубликована в Реестре подарков Президентуры, передает moldovacurata.md. Фото: Администрация президента. Также из Франции Майя Санду получила именную сумку от исполнительного директора модного дома Ines de la Fressange. Фото: Администрация президента.

Persons: Майя Санду Organizations: Президентура, Бессарабский престол, Канцелярия Президента, Комиссия проводимый Locations: Молдова, Европа, Франция, Румыния, Республика Молдова

☆ Alte două seisme puternice s-au produs miercuri dimineaţă în Croaţia
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-30 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Alte două seisme puternice s-au produs miercuri dimineaţă în Croaţia, primul cu magnitudinea 4,6, iar al doilea cu magnitudinea 4,8 pe scara Richter, cu epicentrul în regiunea Petrinja, informează agenţia de ştiri croată HINA. Aceasta a spus că pământul ''se va zdruncina mult timp de acum încolo. Cutremurul de marţi a fost devastator şi va fi cu siguranţă urmat de o lungă serie de seisme, incluzând, cu siguranţă, şi unele puternice''. Ivancic a mai spus că Petrinja a fost lovită de un număr enorm de cutremure mai mici începând de luni. "Orașul meu a fost distrus complet", a spus și primarul din Petrinja, Darinko Dumbovic într-o declarație difuzată de HRT TV: "Este ca Hiroshima, jumătate din oraș nu mai există".

Persons: Richter, Ines, Cutremurul, marţi, Ivancic Locations: Croaţia, Petrinja, croată, Sisak, Petrina, Hiroshima

Aceasta a spus că pământul „se va zdruncina mult timp de acum încolo. Cutremurul de marți a fost devastator şi va fi cu siguranţă urmat de o lungă serie de seisme, incluzând, cu siguranţă, şi unele puternice”. „Petrinja a fost lovită de un număr enorm de cutremure mai mici începând de luni. Pământul tremură aproape la fiecare minut”, a spus aceasta, incluzând cel puţin 25 până la 30 de seisme cu magnitudinea peste 3 pe scara Richter. După cutremurul de marți, primarul din Petrina, localitatea în care s-au prăbușit cele mai multe clădiri, a confirmat moartea unui copil și rănirea a cel puțin 20 de persoane.

Persons: Ines, Richter Locations: Petrinja, Sisak, Petrina

☆ Încă două cutremure puternice în Croația: Seismolog: „Pământul tremură la fiecare minut”
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Aceasta a spus că pământul ''se va zdruncina mult timp de acum încolo. Cutremurul de marţi a fost devastator şi va fi cu siguranţă urmat de o lungă serie de seisme, incluzând, cu siguranţă, şi unele puternice''. Pământul tremură aproape la fiecare minut, a spus aceasta, incluzând cel puţin 25 până la 30 de seisme cu magnitudinea peste 3 pe scara Richter. După cutremurul de marți, primarul din Petrina, localitatea în care s-au prăbușit cele mai multe clădiri, a confirmat moartea unui copil și rănirea a cel puțin 20 de persoane. "Orașul meu a fost distrus complet", a spus și primarul din Petrinja, Darinko Dumbovic într-o declarație difuzată de HRT TV: "Este ca Hiroshima, jumătate din oraș nu mai există".

Persons: Ines, Cutremurul, marţi, Richter Locations: Croatia, Petrinja, Sisak, Petrina, Hiroshima

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