Eventually, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is scrutinized by the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), commencing its task as Case 31, on Monday, 11 September 2023. The Tribunal is expected to issue an advisory opinion, as requested by “The Commission of…

The proposal to introduce iron filings into the oceans in order to reduce global warming due to the expected climate catastrophes comes up regularly. Few days ago the Opinion section of the New York Time, picked up the issue under the title: “Iron Dust Could Reverse the Course of Climate…

Big talking does not mean that the talking gets to the root of the problem. The Northern Europe “Contemporary Warm Period” (1850–present) on the Baltic Sea region, is likely caused by long-term internal climate variability and changes in the external forcing (volcanic eruptions and solar radiation) and also by the…

Deep sea mining means, that industrial activities will operate in 2000 to 6000 meters depth, and the mined material needs to be lifted over a this huge distant, with temperature differences from as low as 4°C at the sea bed, to up to 20°C at the sea surface, with…

If we do not unterstand the past, we have remote chance to understand the current climate change conditions. Face it! The most procounced climatic changes during the last 150 years occured in correlation with the two world wars. Here is the story about the II World War. Little is known…

Weather and climate the most used everyday words, presumably for several thousand years. But what is the meaning of them? Does the answer depend on whom you ask? Not necessarily. Lay persons use them as they think they need it to explain atmospheric conditions, currently, in the past and in…

Weather and climate are everyday slang words and misleading when used by science. During the last half Century the world has a big problem. Science abuse terms, laymen used since time immemorial: weather and climate. The accusation is that they use the term without properly defining it for their academic…

Prof. Roger A. Pielke Sr seems to be one of the few scientists who raise his voice if an incomprehensible scientific terminology is used that may lead to serious confusion or misunderstanding. In a contribution to SCITIZEN in April 2007[1], he addressed the confusion between the terms ‘global warming’ and…

The UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) is based on missing, or weak and misleading terminology. To understand why, a brief look back on how the text of the Convention had been processed by the assigned Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) may help to understand its shortcomings better. As…