A Climate Grand Jeté By Gwynne Dyer The first hurricane to hit Hawaii in 34 years. The Mediterranean on fire from Spain to Greece. ‘Heat domes’ one after another for months on end in Europe and North America. Thousands of excess deaths. A record ‘El Niño’ piled on top of an average global temperature up […]
Climate: What To Do Now By Gwynne Dyer I was reading an article about the current wildfires written in a reputable paper by a recognised ‘environmental journalist’, but I stumbled to a halt when I read the following sentence: “While the skies over North America and Europe will eventually clear, this climate change-driven era of
It’s Not The Weather. It’s The Climate By Gwynne Dyer Last week it was Europe’s turn, with a slow-moving ‘heat dome’ that gave almost everybody from the United Kingdom to Poland three consecutive days of record-breaking temperatures. In Germany it hit 41°Celsius. That’s 106° Fahrenheit, if you live in the one country that still clings
There is no ‘New World Order’, although there is certainly a new world disorder. The ‘rules-based international order’ that was created after the Second World War, mainly under American leadership, had been fading away anyway as the West’s long economic dominance declined. The arrival of Donald Trump delivered the coup de grace, but nothing has
War is in the Air By Gwynne Dyer “There is a clear, present risk, particularly as Vladimir Putin does see himself as being at war with the West. The homeland is again (in peril)…Air and missile attacks will potentially cause civilian casualties (in the United Kingdom) in very large numbers.” Therefore, concludes General Sir Richard
3 March 2025 NATO: The Late, Great Alliance By Gwynne Dyer The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) retired to its sickbed as soon as Donald Trump won the presidential election last November. It finally died last Friday in the White House, when Trump and Vice-President JD Vance launched a vicious attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr
9 February 2025 War: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back? By Gwynne Dyer In classical civilisations, there was a continuing, unresolved debate about whether history moved forward or just went around in circles: was it linear or was it cyclical? But that debate was largely settled once human beings learned about their deeper past. It’s
11 January 2025 Climate Feedbacks – Not in Front of the Children By Gwynne Dyer “This does not mean the international +1.5C target has been broken, because that refers to a long-term average over decades.” If those carefully chosen words don’t set your alarm bells ringing, you have not traveled much in the land of
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28 August 2024 Walls and Deportations By Gwynne Dyer Fortress America and Festung Europa (Fortress Europe) are just starting to take shape; bare outlines of what they will have grown into ten years from now. But the trend is almost unstoppable, and it will be very ugly when it’s finished. Some sort of turning point
28 April 2024 War in Africa By Gwynne Dyer “We could see an all-out war between all the tribes and that is really the doomsday scenario. At this point, it’s not unrealistic,” the head of an international non-government organisation that is working in Sudan told the Al Jazeera news agency last week. (She asked them