Faced with scale of corona shock, the EU is going to have to talk about fical rules. A general push to slash deficits right now
From German Presidency of EC you would expect emphasis on trade & getting things done. But, so far, there is little progress in trade talks
4 phases of global climate politics: 1980s: WESTERN scientists identify GLOBAL problem 1990s: COPs-> GLOBAL climate politics & deadlock 2010s: SUPERPOWERs agree to talk ->
Famously, 5 m people left Wuhan ahead of holidays Jan 18-24 when corona was spreading. Some went abroad. VAST majority flew to rest of China.
Italian corona outbreak striking. Excess deaths concentrated in Lombardy. In Rome, no excess mortality. Conclusion? Earlier you do comprehensive shutdown in March the more you
RT @JonasAlgers: "Energy is a business for state capitalists. Twelve of the top 20 corporate CO2 emitters are state-owned." @adam_tooze H…
Like Mexico & Peru, the UK gov & its state machinery have had a hard time producing meaningful COVID mortality data. Big gaps btw official
Is era of European “climate leadership” coming to an end? Xi may not be the climate frontman anyone expected. Geopolitical mood music is ominous. But,
Patchwork epidemic: With less than 1/20th of world’s population, the US accounts for one in 1/5 officially attributed to Covid-19. But almost nowhere in the
Peru and Ecuador which imported corona early from Europe have had the worst mortality for countries for which we have data. ig.ft.com/coronavirus-gl… https://t.co/RQTVD7bh8r
@PatPorter76 For sure there are. But I would argue, those are tactical/operational decisions. At the strategic level the trade-off disappears.
Provincializing Europe: How big is Xi’s decarbonization challenge relative to EU’s Green Deal? In this @socialeurope column I rank EU nations v. Chinese provinces in
In Europe, regions that were hardest hit by Covid cases in the spring are doing worst in autumn outbreak as well. Not yet true in
At the grand strategic level, evidence suggests there is no trade off: Countries that were unable to control their corona outbreaks have tended to suffer
Anyway, for anyone taking a broad view of the Anthropocene and its history I would say it was essential reading. And for those stuck in
If you want a compacted version of Coen's fascinating argument about scale, it is here: muse.jhu.edu/article/620983 Coen, Deborah R. "Big is a Thing of the
Suppression of fact that this is a brilliant piece of Central European history, obscures fact that it has vital stuff to say about the importance
Turns out Habsburg climatologists had rather intimate ways of thinking about climate! Sacher Masoch and all … https://t.co/UsS2LeOBnT
Striking that the press/author decided to bury fact that "Empire" in question is Habsburg Empire in Central Europe. Probably not sexy (though on that score
Yesterday I sat down & read Deborah Coen Climate in Motion Science, Empire & the Problem of Scale in a single, somewhat delirious sitting. I
Olam, world’s largest cocoa trader, can now trace 100% of beans it sources direct from mainly poor peasant farmers = 12% of global supply. Enables
RT @jossgarman: "If comprehensive global assemblies are unmanageable and superpower deals are too narrow, what is needed is a more manageab…
US tax authorities are collecting less than half the amount of revenue from audits than they did in 2010. @propublica via @SoberLook https://t.co/X5r8YtTy6P
60% of Global Fund Managers expect the US election outcome to be contested. BofA research via @SoberLook https://t.co/DdisRzXCrL
In 2011 those earning $1m pa were six times more likely to be audited by US tax authorities than the working poor with income <$20k.
China is benefiting from something close to a V-shaped recovery. US/EU are looking at a swoosh scenario: recovery incomplete and trend broken to downside. @jpmorgan
Unemployment in Iceland is currently worse than after the entire banking system collapsed in 2008. Tourism industry has stopped dead. @SoberLook https://t.co/514xcCSDkY
Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in Formula 1. @TheEconomist statistical model finds that neither Lewis Hamilton nor Michael Schumacher is Formula
US tax authorities are collecting less than half the amount of revenue from audits than they did in 2010. @propublica via @SoberLook https://t.co/6amExWcf3O
In 2011 those earning $1m pa were six times more likely to be audited by US tax authorities than the working poor with income <$20k.
60% of Global Fund Managers expect the US election outcome to be contested. BofA research via @SoberLook https://t.co/rkbBF7PQw2
China is benefiting from something close to a V-shaped recovery. US/EU are looking at a swoosh scenario: recovery incomplete and trend broken to downside. @jpmorgan
Unemployment in Iceland is currently worse than after the entire banking system collapsed in 2008. Tourism industry has stopped dead. @SoberLook https://t.co/lQ4MugNFMx
Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in Formula 1. @TheEconomist statistical model finds that neither Lewis Hamilton nor Michael Schumacher is Formula
New word: drosometer – an instrument for measuring the quantity of dew in a given area! https://t.co/KtRHYQNdUx
RT @cornelban73: There is much celebration over the so-called burial of austerity by the IMF. This is an exaggeration. https://t.co/nnUJsLG…
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