'Just World News' with Helena Cobban

Use the Detroit bailout to transform US transit

The Democrats' campaign to win a quick bailout of the US's Big Three, Detroit-based automakers seems to have stalled. That's a good thing, since the only kind of substantive conditionality...

Waiting for Gustav

It seems that Hurricane Gustave may be even more powerful than Katrina, and it's following more or less the same path toward New Orleans. New Orleans has been doing a...

CO2 emissions from saudi Arabia, other Gulf oil exporters

As an addendum to the post I just put up about Al-Hayat's writings on climate change and CO2 emissions, here is Nationmaster's ranking of the world's countries by per-head CO2...

Al-Hayat's Morkos on the global economy, inequality, and the environment

I have long thought that al-Hayat's English-language web presence is one the saddest wasted opportunities in the whole global discourse. However, recently I discovered some very thoughtful writing in an...

My op-ed: Global warming as "the nuclear issue of our age"

My latest op-ed is in today's Christian Science Monitor. (Here and here.) I think it has a suitably year's-end feel to it. The title is America: Step up on climate...

Bush blinks, Bali succeeds!

Exciting news from the UN's Bali conference on climate change. The conference went into an unscheduled extra day of work Saturday, and at the very last minute the US delegation...

Bali and world politics

I am very interested in what we can learn about the current state of world politics from watching the current UN Climate Change conference in Bali, Indonesia. The biggest dispute...

On not harming others

When I was writing the chapter on climate change in my upcoming book Re-engage! America and the World after Bush I found many really excellent on-line resources on the issue....

New blogging gig on urban transportation systems

I have a new little blogging gig-- a periodic feature called "Eyes on the Street" over at The City Fix, which is a blog published by the Washington DC-based World...

Congratulations, the IPCC and Al Gore!

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2007 Nobel Peace prize jointly to Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In its citation-- whose original...

Piece in CSM today on Bush and global warming

I have a non-column in the CSM today on climate-change. The title is "Bush's good idea on global warming." Don't let that put anyone off reading it! I start the...

Climate change: Will the real George W. Bush please identify himself?

As President, George W. Bush has been strongly opposed to any treaty-based international mandates regarding greenhouse gas emissions. Condi Rice reiterated this point during the opening presentation she made at...

'Super-typhoon' approaching Shanghai

The very best of luck to our friends and readers in eastern China as they brace for the arrival of Typhoon Wipha. Xinhua tells us that, East China, including the...