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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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May 26, 2015
Technology and Innovation
The World Needs Post-Silicon Solar Technologies
In his 2007 keynote address to the Materials Research Society, Caltech Professor Nate Lewis surveyed global energy consumption and concluded that out of all the renewable options, only solar power co…
March 24, 2014
Fossil Fuels
FiveThirtyEight’s Data Problem
Nate Silver’s new FiveThirtyEight has been catching a lot of flak since it launched last week. Perhaps the harshest has been directed at the site’s retention of the often-contrarian climate analyst R…
December 4, 2012
Japan
Matthew Marr: Two Improbable Locales for Japanese Optimism
This blog post is part of a series entitled Is Japan in Decline?, in which leading experts analyze Japan’s economy, politics, and society and give their assessment of Japan’s future. Two decades of …
November 2, 2012
Politics and Government
The World Next Week: Hurricane Sandy Revives Climate Change Talk, Americans Vote for President, and China Appoints New Leaders
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy; next week’s presidential election; and China’s change in leadership. [audio: http://www.cfr.org/conte…
March 9, 2012
Defense and Security
Friday File: The Politics of Iran War Fever
Above the Fold. President Obama used his speech to the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last Sunday and his White House press conference to take his critics to task f…
