Is the sea level rising?
The Spectator last week questioned the reports that sea levels around the world are rising. (Read the article, by Nils-Axel Mörner, here.) Higher sea levels are generally expected to be
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climate change
Climate change affects different countries in different ways
One of the key arguments behind a federalist approach to the fight against climate change, as opposed to an intergovernmental fight, is that different countries will be affected in different
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A communitarian approach is the only way to save us from climate change
The expectations about the outcome of the COP16 in Cancun are low, writes Joan Marc Simon. A sad prospect if we think Climate Change is the biggest threat to our
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Federal Union review of 2009
Two events compete with each other to be the most important achievement of 2009. Each in its own way is a little underwhelming, but each might turn out to carry
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Failure at Copenhagen
They say that the definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same action over and over again expecting a different result each time. 193 national governments were represented at
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Greening America to green the world
By Professor Satish Desai OBE, 3 December 2008 Introduction The world has experienced many unfortunate events, e.g. the World War II (WWII) that was perhaps the last serious event. WWII was
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Is smoking democratic?
More on Sarah Palin, I’m afraid. Her purported belief in creationism, which turns out on closer inspection to be nothing of the kind, has led to an interesting discussion about
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How should EU vote on carbon emission levels?
By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 24 January 2008 Sir, The proposal by the consultancy Europe Economics that the most cost-effective way of reducing carbon emissions within the European
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Fear of frying
Halloween is the time of year for frightening people, so Sir Nicholas Stern chose the right moment to publish his report on the threat of global warming. He explains that
Foreign oil
Another thing about the Al Gore film “An inconvenient truth” that needs to be written about. This point annoyed me quite a lot when I saw the film – the