The “Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries” (OPEC) published on June 18, 2026 the “World Oil Outlook 2050”. The key message from the report and the presentation: “(…) there is no peak oil demand on the horizon.” In the view of Mr. Al Ghais, the report “offers data driven, transparent,…
biodiversity loss
global warming, climate disruption, and biodiversity loss
Current wildfires, et al. are just the beginning
There is a delay of about 30 years between “greenhouse gas” (GHG) emissions and actual global warming (see following graph 1), GHG emissions are still raising, and global warming is already accelerating (see following graph 2) – the “1.5°C limit” has always been merely a very rough estimate for the “corridor of human…
global warming, climate disruption, and biodiversity loss
Warming planet, Fewer people — IDGR research maps the demographic cost of political inaction
The political decisions made in the next few decades on fossil fuels, the industrial meat production system, and reforestation will not just determine how hot the planet gets, they will determine how many people it can support, and under what conditions. Not in some distant future, but within the lifetimes…
global warming, climate disruption, and biodiversity loss
Global warming is out of “human control”. What comes next?
With full recognition of the work carried out by millions of committed leaders, scientists, and institutions – among them the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the World Meteorological Organization, and the International Energy Agency – one conclusion is now unavoidable. After 30 years of “UN Climate Change…
research news
IDGR works out the currently by far most important graph for humanity
Ahead of the 2025 “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” (COP30), heaving read e.g. the fantastic contributions “UNEP – Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off target. Continued collective inaction puts global temperature goal at risk” and the “WMO – State of the Climate Update…
global governance, geo-politics, and democracy
Mitigating global warming is too big to fail
There is a storm coming up, a very big storm, and a deadly storm. Indications multiply towards a so far significantly underestimated speed and intensity of global warming, according to that a significantly underestimated impact of climate change, and a significantly underestimated loss of biodiversity. What we need now is…
global warming, climate disruption, and biodiversity loss
Global warming is like a shark attack
(Global) Politics failed to keep global warming within the 1.5°C (physical) limit and we think, global warming is still significantly underestimated, since we expect an exponential temperature rise (cf. “Temperature rise will be exponential“). Let us keep this simple. This is not a matter of even more or better data….
global warming, climate disruption, and biodiversity loss
“Trump administration” is killing potentially billions
The current geo-political development mainly coming from the “Trump administration” is the worst case scenario, it is a full disaster! The amount of destruction coming from the “Trump administration” is by far the worst, worse then everything else so far happening to humanity, including the 2nd World War. There are…
trans- & interdisciplinary global warming scenario
First trans- and interdisciplinary global warming scenario
I did a first rough draft, you also might call it a (heuristic) “theory”, on how global warming, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity looks like from a trans- & interdisciplinary perspective. The story I tell with the scenarios effects the imagination and actions people take and we deeply…
trans- & interdisciplinary global warming scenario
Temperature rise will be exponential
Global warming, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity is in our view the by far greatest (security) threat to humanity ever in human history (nuclear weapons certainly have the potential to extinct humanity within seconds, but they are men made and can be fully controlled by men, e.g. cf….