Brexit: Chaos Continues as Parliament Votes Down All Brexit Options, Press Focuses on May Rather than April
The Brexit noise to signal ratio continues to be very high.
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To Brexit or Not to Brexit
Yet more Brexit to-ing and fro-ing.
Read more...The Problem With the ‘Warm’ in Global Warming: Most Like it Hot
“Warm” is not scary. That’s a problem.
Read more...Clean Water: UNICEF Shows More Children Die from Diarrhea than Direct Violence in Conflict Zones
Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
Read more...Brexit: Controlled Flight into Terrain
In case you wondered, Brexit didn’t get any saner over the weekend.
Read more...Second Roundup Decision: Jury Finds Weedkiller a “Substantial Cause” of Plantiff’s Cancer
A San Francisco jury found last Tuesday that Roundup – the glyphosate-based weedkiller – was “a substantial cause “ of the plaintiff Edwin Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, in the first of a three-stage process, which focused only on scientific evidence.
Read more...Five Ways to Talk to Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun Too)
Climate change is a tough topic to present to children. Some ideas.
Read more...Brexit: Opening the Seals
Brexit gets even more crazed, if such a thing were possible.
Read more...U.S. ‘’Oil Weapon’’ Could Change Geopolitics Forever
Oil production as a source of political advantage will no doubt keep official US climate change denialism alive and well.
Read more...Brexit: End of the Road
The UK has run out of time for Brexit machinations, even if that isn’t well recognized yet.
Read more...Another Theresa May Faceplant as the Brexit Clock Ticks: Speaker Bercow Nixes Another Meaningful Vote in Current Session [Updated]
Brexit demonstrates the saying, “Things look the darkest before they go completely black.”
Read more...Shotgun Marriage: Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank Discuss Merger
Even by the low standards of necessity-driven bank mergers, the proposed tie up of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank looks particularly dodgy.
Read more...Of Course We Can Pay for a Green New Deal, but We Can’t Escape Hard Choices
A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
Read more...Brexit: The Kindness of Strangers
The Thursday Brexit votes put the UK officially at the mercy of the EU.
Read more...Brexit: Send in the Clowns
May takes yet more body blows….while the no deal threat is not yet disarmed.
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