In 2009, the second edition of Mark Maslin’s book Global Warming. A Very Short Introduction appeared in the well-known series published by Oxford University Press. According to Maslin’s website, the […]
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Der Spiegel, Germany’s prestigious weekly news magazine, broke a story today that takes dieselgate to a completely new level and calls into question the idea that Germany could assume the […]
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As we have already pointed out, the Paris agreement on climate change is a bad agreement. It is what in German is called a fauler Kompromiss, a reduction to the […]
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The global media were almost unanimous in their headlines that the United States was isolated following the decision of the Trump administration to withdraw from the Paris Agreement 2020, that […]
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A howl of protest went up following the press conference of French President Emmanuel Macron at the G20 summit in Hamburg. A journalist from the Ivory Coast asked Macron why […]
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Much of the West is effectively bankrupt and insolvent. The developing world is not much better off. France’s cumulative debt of government, households and businesses amounts to 250% of GDP, […]
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In the run-up to the G20 meeting under Angela Merkel in Hamburg, U.S. President Donald Trump has come in for the usual round of massive criticism – much of it […]
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The last few weeks have seen efforts and rhetoric by NATO members to mollify the U.S. President following Donald Trump’s various remarks during last year’s campaign and following his election […]
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Less than a month after the hysteria and sheer bad thinking levelled at the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, some […]
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Will Gore is Deputy Managing Editor of The Independent and the London Evening Standard. He “writes on a range of topics, including weekly columns about media ethics (having previously worked […]
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