BLOG Post #468: The Gutting of America’s Scientific Research 20 Jul 2025 Once Upon a Time There was a time not too long ago when American scientists and American research facilities were the envy of the world. In those days, our…
BLOG Post #446: The Year Past and the Year Ahead 26 Dec 2024 The global citizen agenda for 2025 is very much like that for 2024—and probably for some years afterward. It includes global warming and related environmental crises; US-China tensions; challenges to…
BLOG Post #408: The Year Ahead: Ten Issues and One Wild Card 7 Jan 2024 2024 is likely to be filled with more than the usual challenges to planetary safety and survival. Here’s a look at ten issues and a wild card that suggest what’s…
BLOG Post #405: Europe is Moving Farther to the Right on Energy and Immigration 22 Dec 202322 Dec 2023 Self-Preservation Over Principle Politics in the European Union provides a good example of how the best intentions in dealing with climate change can be thwarted. A European Green Deal…
BLOG Post #403: COP28–Doing Less While Pretending to Do More 10 Dec 2023 Following the Script International conferences almost always fall well short of meeting ambitious reform goals because the large number and variety of participants ensure hard bargaining over policy ideas…
BLOG Post #399: Biden and Xi Seek Coexistence 16 Nov 2023 The first face-to-face meeting in a year between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping went about as expected: some potentially meaningful agreements, some continuing disagreements, some controversies unexplored, and…
BLOG Post #369: The Climate Time Bomb 3 Apr 2023 The Bomb is Ticking The odds are against us. That is the bottom line in the latest IPCC report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on global…
BLOG Post #349: Brazil’s Election and the Future of the Amazon 4 Sep 202217 Sep 2022 (The podcast of this and all other blogs is athttps://wordpress.com/post/melgurtov.com/2247.) The Candidates: Worlds Apart On October 2 we will have a presidential election in Brazil of enormous consequence for the…
BLOG Post #347: The Great Energy Game in Europe 12 Aug 202214 Aug 2022 The audio of this blog is at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/67441/56-the-great-energy-game-in-europe.mp3 The Politics of Russia’s Energy Exports It won’t be long before winter descends on Europe. Before it does, most European countries…
BLOG Post #337: It’s “Now or Never” on Climate Change 17 May 20226 Jun 2022 The audio version of this blog is at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/59656/45-its-now-or-never-on-climate-change.mp3 On Track for Disaster The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group report gives us until 2030 to stop…
BLOG Post #332: Big Oil’s War Bonanza 6 Apr 20224 Apr 2022 The audio of this blog is at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/55789/41-the-war-a-bonanza-for-big-oil.mp3 In case you haven’t noticed, a major consequence of the Ukraine war is the bonanza it has provided for the oil and…
BLOG Post #316: Dim Prospects for Climate Mitigation 30 Oct 2021 An audio version of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/42834/23-dim-prospects-for-climate-mitigation.mp3. Just in time for the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration has released the National…
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