The Germanwatch Global Climate Risk Index is an analysis based on one of the most reliable data sets available on the impacts of extreme weather events and associated socio-economic data. The Germanwatch Climate Risk Index 2019 is the 14th edition of the annual analysis. Its aim is to contextualize ongoing
PM Scott Morrison could afford to be magnanimous to defeated former Labor leader Bill Shorten when parliament resumed this week. Not only has Morrison won an election Shorten thought was his for the taking, but the Coalition has secured a major victory in the first sitting days of the new
In the classic 80s comedy, The Young Ones, Rik is a cartoonish mockery of a radical student leftist. Middle-class, ignorant and always looking for something to be offended about, Rik’s defining trait is his almost Tourette’s-like passion for calling people “fascists” and “Nazis”. Bank tellers, doormen, postmen, everyone
China’s military expansion in the South China Sea has been enabled in no small part because Western powers for too long took their eye off the ball. Western leaders bought into the polite fiction that a benignly-reformed Chinese communist leadership was solely committed to trade. Worse, the weak, vacillating
Thirty years ago last month, paratroopers and tanks rolled out in Beijing to bloodily crush China’s burgeoning democracy movement. For three decades afterwards, too many Western elites have systematically deluded themselves that the Chinese Communists have somehow benevolently “reformed”. However comforting a lie might be, a lie it remains.
“Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again” – J. R. R. Tolkien. The world (or most of it) breathed a sigh of relief earlier this year when the Islamic State’s Caliphate in the Middle-East was finally crushed. As the last, black-clad rats
Did you wonder about the 1 – 2 m of hail in Mexico? Did you ponder the physics of hail piling cars at funny angles? Did you blame the Guadalajara Council for not declaring a climate emergency? Wonder no more: It was clearly a dramatic and extremely impressive event with major
With Messiah-like adulation David Attenborough was feted at Glastonbury. Attenborough made a surprise appearance on the Pyramid Stage and the 93-year-old environmentalist thanked the crowd for ditching their plastic water bottles for the event. It appears to have been a monumental fail as the fields of Glastonbury looked a long
One more reason not to buy an electric vehicle. Why not the noise of a throaty V8 or something equally reeking of toxic masculinity? One more reason for Brexit as well. New electric vehicles will have to feature a noise-emitting device, under an EU rule coming into force on Monday.
The new ‘evil’ is jet contrails. They are going to cook us all. Much worse than CO2 etc etc yadda yadda The aviation industry is even worse for climate change than previously thought, with a new study revealing the damage being done by otherwise harmless contrails. They’re so bad,
It is a long time since biology lessons were a part of my day but my dim recall seems to suggest that there is a slight problem with Julian Castro’s logic. The upside of providing free abortions to men, however, is that the annual cost of such a programme
