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When will it happen? When will a sudden loss of polar ice cause sea levels to rise rapidly, not by millimetres but by metres? That’s the multi-trillion dollar question that should be keeping the world’s policymakers up at night, but … Continue reading →

A fine joke about prejudice I heard a Jewish New Yorker (political writer David Rothkopf) tell on YouTube last week goes like this: Two old friends, one Jewish, the other Chinese, are chatting on a Central Park bench. The Jew … Continue reading →

“People just chasing philosophical butterflies” was how New England MP Barnaby Joyce described the federal department of climate change last week, adding for good measure that far from changing the climate, “a lot of the people within it couldn’t change … Continue reading →