One addendum to Alex's discussion of the new paper from Gerard Roe and Marcia Baker, which argues that we will never really know how much warming we are...
David Steven
David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
Fight Islamists, fascists, leftists – all in a working week
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A Creationist President?
My thoughts on evolution, the US and its presidential campaign on the Telegraph blog, Brassneck.
Brand Bhutto
How many other developing country opposition leaders can take to the FT when they need to rally support? I did not come this far in life to be intimidated by...
re: Limbaugh 10, Reid 1
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Romney UN boycott plan
Talking Points Memo: Mitt Romney pulled off an interesting bit of U.N.-bashing today, calling upon the United States to withdraw from a United Nations...
Classy
130 people reported dead in Pakistan and Scrappleface - the right-wing answer to the Onion - sees an opportunity to use its wit to settle some political...
Tanker emissions
From new (or seemingly, half-done) research: Global emissions of carbon dioxide from shipping are twice the level of aviation, one of the maritime industry's...
The per capita parliament
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Quote of the day/week/month
Bruno Latour: “Science is certainty; research is uncertainty. Science is supposed to be cold, straight and detached; research is warm, involving and risky....
Small government resilience
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True, I fear
Gary Rosen: Democrats [are] in an awkward position. If they were to follow the lead of the Nobel committee, which commended Gore for recognizing “the measures...
RIP David Muffett
His Telegraph obit: A huge, lumbering bear of a man, 6ft 2in tall and nearly as broad, with a booming voice and bristling moustache, Muffett looked rather...
Stop funding democracy.
Washington Post: More than two dozen Iranian American and human rights groups have launched an appeal to Congress to reduce or eliminate new financial support...
re: The bad boys of Blackwater
David Kilcullen on how to run a successful counter-insurgency: In counterinsurgency, the initiative is everything. If the enemy is reacting to you, you...
Gore and IPCC share peace prize…
A UN body and a US Democrat - it's the reddest of red rags for the American right... Update: Breaking: Although former Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel...
Climate – lost in a data fog
Is it just me or are good statistics on climate change ridiculously hard to get hold of? The natural point of comparison is with development indicators. Want...
Triangulation
Neal Stephenson: "Speaking as an observer who has many friends with libertarian instincts, I would point out that terrorism is a much more formidable opponent...
“We’re making fools of ourselves in the eyes of the world”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is back in the news. Round-the-clock security keeps the Somalia-born Dutch citizen from meeting the same fate as her erstwhile collaborator,...
Another Doha death rattle
Research out today shows that Republican voters in the US have swung solidly against free trade. 32% agree that "Foreign trade has been good for the U.S....
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