Informed Comment daily updates (09/17/2023)

Libya’s Climate Disaster Shows we Can’t afford Erratic leaders Like Trump and Haftar any More Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the past two weeks the Mediterranean has been reeling from the massive devastation wrought regionally by Hurricane Daniel, the “Medicane” that has visited more damage on this region than any storm in recorded history. In the east thirteen days ago, Daniel struck Greece, flooding the fertile valleys where a […]

How Mahsa Amini’s Death became a Rallying Call for Thousands of Iranians By Michael Scollon and Fereshteh Ghazi A combo photo shows Mahsa Amini (left) in the hospital on September 16, 2022, and her father and grandmother right after her death.     ( RFE/RL ) – Sharmin Habibi recalls the circumstances of her husband’s killing at the hands of Iran’s security forces. But she could be […]

Summer 2023’s Climate-Driven Record-Breaking heat is not ‘The New Normal,’ since the abnormalities will Keep on Coming Scott Denning, Colorado State University | – Summer 2023 has been the hottest on record by a huge margin. Hundreds of millions of people suffered as heat waves cooked Europe, Japan, Texas and the Southwestern U.S. Phoenix hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) for a record 54 days, including a 31-day streak in July. […]

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Expansion of BRICS, the anti-G7, in the Mideast: Is the Oil Gulf no Longer Pax Americana? Climate Crisis: UN Launches Flash Appeal to Aid 250,000 Libyans hit by Devastating Floods How Zinc-Ion Batteries may solve our Renewable Energy Storage Problem As US drags out Israel Normalization Deal with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Drifts toward China Young Montanans are fighting Climate Change in Court for all our Sakes Climate Crisis: Flood Death Toll in Libya’s Derna may reach 20,000 30 Years after Arafat-Rabin Handshake, clear Flaws in Oslo Accords doomed peace Talks to Failure

 

Informed Comment daily updates (09/16/2023)

 

Expansion of BRICS, the anti-G7, in the Mideast: Is the Oil Gulf no Longer Pax Americana? Exeter (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – BRICS, a group of five developing countries that include China, Russia, and India, has invited another six countries to join the bloc, making the group 11 if all accept the invitation. Among 40 interested states in membership, of which 22 had already officially asked for admission, BRICS leaders […]

Climate Crisis: UN Launches Flash Appeal to Aid 250,000 Libyans hit by Devastating Floods ( UN News ) – Disaster struck on Sunday when torrential rains from Storm Daniel led two dams close to the now devastated port city of Derna to burst, pushing entire neighbourhoods into the sea. “The situation is quite terrible as you can imagine”, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF’s Libya Representative, Michele Servadei, told UN News. […]

How Zinc-Ion Batteries may solve our Renewable Energy Storage Problem By Storm William D Gourley, McMaster University and Drew Higgins, McMaster University | – (The Conversation) – Hotter summers, drier forests, rising waters: climate change is not just a threat to our future, it’s hurting our world right now. While there are many ways human activity has brought about climate change, global electricity generation sources […]

Old posts you may have missed

As US drags out Israel Normalization Deal with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Drifts toward China Young Montanans are fighting Climate Change in Court for all our Sakes Climate Crisis: Flood Death Toll in Libya’s Derna may reach 20,000 30 Years after Arafat-Rabin Handshake, clear Flaws in Oslo Accords doomed peace Talks to Failure Mideast AI: Saudi, UAE Chip imports from US imperiled by Their Close China Ties ‘Era Of Repression’: Iran Purges Ranks Of University Professors Ahead Of Veil Protest Anniversary Why Defining Criticism of Israeli Policies as “antisemitism” Harms Campus Freedom of Speech (BRISMES)