“Progressives” still wrong on immigration
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 […]
Read MoreMitigating Paris
As 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 […]
Read MoreNo wonder people get global warming and poverty wrong
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 […]
Read MoreVorsprung durch Technik? Another blow to Germany’s global leadership.
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 […]
Read MoreG20 in Hamburg. From tragedy to farce in one easy step as the media ignore climate science
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 […]
Read MoreG20 in Hamburg. From tragedy to farce in one easy step as the media spiral down yet further
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 […]
Read MoreG20 in Hamburg. From tragedy to farce in one easy step as the media get Macron wrong
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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