By Anders Lorenzen Our daughter Our isn’t even three yet, but she’s already demonstrably determined. Her walk has a certain decisiveness, and she exudes a clear sense of purpose when she sets her mind to something. However, we needn’t look far back in history, nor is it entirely a relic of the past in many parts of the world, that girls […]
By Russ Baker Look at Trump’s words under a microscope. What do you see? The very first thing Donald Trump plans to do in a second Trump administration, he told Fox News’s Sean Hannity, is issue an order: “Drill, drill, drill!” With all of the things Trump could seize upon, why that particular one? Although pushing for more oil extraction […]
Sultan Al Jaber is the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and served as the President of COP28. Photo credit: AFP. By Anders Lorenzen Life on Earth is, however much we try to live in ways that do not match reality, still within some constraints. All the resources of our planet do have their limits even though […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), site of the COP28 conference at the end of the month, where government representatives from all UN countries will discuss global efforts to limit climate change and adapt to its effects. Photo credit: Frank Peters / Alamy. By Kashmala Kakakhel COP28 will be judged on its solutions to questions of climate finance – for mitigation, […]
Shoppers rush into a store as the door opens for the Black Friday sale. Photo credit: By Powhusku from Laramie, WY, USA CC BY-SA 2.0 – via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen Today the frenzy consumerist festival Black Friday officially begins, that to begin with was held on the last Friday of November, and has now grown far beyond this with […]
Photo credit: ITV. By Anders Lorenzen ‘It is a glorious sunny day across the British Isles with forecasts set to stay dry and sunny for the foreseeable future’ or ‘miserable rain continues across the country with no end in sight’. People who frequently watch the weather forecasts might not think there’s anything unusual in these two statements, made by the […]
By Jeremy Williams “We couldn’t keep doing the weather as it’s always been done,” says Alexandre Kara of France Télévisions. “It’s unacceptable to rejoice that it’s 25 degrees in Biarritz in February without explaining why.” With these sorts of concerns in mind, the weather updates on France 2 and 3 are getting a tweak. They’re being renamed as weather and climate […]
A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. Temperature records have been broken across Asia in recent weeks. Photo credit: Habibur Rahman /Alamy Live News. By Aditi Mukherji The heatwave sweeping across Asia has forced schools in India to shut down. With our children already paying a terrible […]
By Jeremy Williams There was something of a non-sequitur from Britain’s Chancellor Jeremy Hunt recently. “We don’t want to see high bills like this again,” he said of the country’s current energy costs. “It’s time for a clean energy reset. That is why we are fully committing to nuclear power in the UK, backing a new generation of small modular […]
The German nuclear power plant Grafenrheinfeld before it was decommissioned in 2015. Photo credit: Christian VisualBeo Horvat – CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen As Germany completed its nuclear phase-out earlier this month, it becomes clear that Europe’s economic and industrial powerhouse is further away from climate action than almost every single EU member country. It is also […]