Once again, a discussion on immigration is taking place in Europe. For the last few days, the new “populist” government in Italy has refused a berth to a ship called the Aquarius, which is carrying some 630 immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Today, Valencia in Spain has said it would accept…
Read MoreAs we argued in 2007 and again following the G20 summit in Hamburg, global warming will affect poor countries far less able to cope with the consequences than the advanced industrial nations. We also warned that if the science is correct, emissions of greenhouse gases need to be reduced due…
Read MoreIn 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 book has sold over 40,000 copies – and yet it betrays a fundamental flaw in thinking, knowledge and understanding before…
Read MoreDer 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 global leadership left by American’s turn inwards and President’s Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord on climate change. Germany’s green…
Read MoreAs 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 lowest common denominator. Paris pre-progammes further global warming by mandating mitigation and adaptation rather than avoidance and reduction. Here are…
Read MoreThe 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 it was the G19 versus 1. But they seized on a few sentences in the final communiqué to prove their…
Read MoreA 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 there was no Marshall plan for Africa? Macron answered that Africa had “civilisational” problems, adding that part of the challenge…
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