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Julie Wornan
Mar 91 min read
Lets Talk about Water
Water scarcity is an increasingly dire problem worldwide. As the population continues to grow, the demand for water rises exponentially...
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Julie Wornan
Sep 15, 20231 min read
The Base or the Bird
The US Air Force is building more bases in the Pacific Ocean. Object: war with China? The Air Force is clearing out what's left of the...
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Julie Wornan
Sep 7, 20233 min read
Ia Aanstoot, dynamic young Swedish climate activist
Ia Aanstoot was 17 when she participated as a delegate to the COP27 climate conference. About an hour before the release of the final...
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Julie Wornan
Aug 29, 20231 min read
If the ice goes, so do the penguins!
“Global warming” starts with “Ocean warming” Most of Earth's excess heat is actually in our oceans, and predominantly around Antarctica....
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Julie Wornan
Aug 25, 20232 min read
How dangerous is the Fukushima waste water?
Twelve years after a powerful earthquake and ensuing tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the plant's operator,...
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Julie Wornan
Aug 22, 20232 min read
Coal Power Plants to Small Modular Reactors
What's an SMR? Small modular reactors (SMRs) are advanced nuclear reactors with about one-third of the capacity of traditional nuclear...
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Julie Wornan
Aug 20, 20233 min read
Let's Dethrone King Oil!
Carbon capture, a fig leaf for Big Oil We cannot beat climate change without drastically reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. This...
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Julie Wornan
Aug 15, 20231 min read
A Victory for Climate Justice
In a lawsuit called Held v. State of Montana, sixteen plaintiffs aged from 5 to 22 alleged that state officials violated their...
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Julie Wornan
Aug 1, 20231 min read
Fossil Fuels, Anybody?
July 2023 was the hottest month in more than 120,000 years of recorded history. Heat waves scorched large parts of Europe, North America...
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Julie Wornan
Jul 19, 20232 min read
We were promised Climate Change. It's here.
Phoenix, Arizona (USA) has suffered temperatures above 43°C for 19 days straight. Large swaths of Europe, the US, Asia, and Africa have...
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Julie Wornan
Jul 9, 20231 min read
Out of the frying pan, into the fire
June 2023 was the hottest June on record. Temperatures exceeded the 1991-2020 average by 0.5C. Ocean temperatures rose alarmingly....
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Julie Wornan
May 27, 20231 min read
Energy from the sun is not problem-free
Building massive solar farms in the world’s deserts seems at first view like a great idea. But we are seeing some unintended...
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Julie Wornan
May 9, 20232 min read
Catastrophic Climate Change
Extreme weather events are becoming more common due to climate change. The average global temperature in 2022 was about 1.15°C above...
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Julie Wornan
Apr 4, 20232 min read
The Dark Side of "Green"
The use of wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars is spreading. But what happens when they reach the end of their lives? The...
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Julie Wornan
Mar 19, 20232 min read
Drill, Baby, Drill
As 2008 Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin proclaimed, "The chant is 'drill, baby, drill.' And that's what we hear all across this...
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Julie Wornan
Mar 2, 20232 min read
Well, well, well !
There are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields in the world. But a great many wells have been abandoned when no longer economically...
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Julie Wornan
Feb 12, 20232 min read
They Lie, People Die
The major oil companies knew as early as 1950 that their products were killing us. They hid their knowledge and continued with business...
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Julie Wornan
Jan 17, 20234 min read
The German Bretzel
Some facts: a) Germans like warm houses, cooked food, trips in cars and industrial products - as we all do. These things require lots of...
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Julie Wornan
Jan 7, 20232 min read
A year of Climate Disaster
2022 was a year of extreme weather events: severe storms, record-breaking floods, droughts, typhoons, heatwaves. Few regions were spared....
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Julie Wornan
Dec 1, 20222 min read
How about Never?
"The rich world’s governments arrived at the COP27 conference in Egypt saying 'It’s now or never.' They left saying 'How about never?' " -...
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