• OPINION

  Prepare for a fossil fuel fire sale

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/11/2021

  » An article with the innocuous title "Reframing Incentives for Climate Policy Action" slipped out in the scientific journal Nature Energy three weeks ago and got very little attention, presumably because of the hopeless title. But it's not innocuous at all. It's explosive.

• OPINION

  Warming in the Arctic at tipping point?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/05/2018

  » Here are two interesting facts. One is that the winter temperatures in the Arctic this year were the highest ever recorded. On two days in February, it was actually warmer at the North Pole than it was in Zurich, Switzerland. At one location in Greenland, the temperature was 36C higher than the usual average for that time of year.

• OPINION

  Israel-Hamas war can only be stopped by Biden

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/02/2024

  » More than four months into the sixth Arab-Israeli War, with about 1,500 Israelis dead and 30,000 Palestinians dead, all the major local actors are stuck. Only the United States can stop the killing -- if it chooses to do so.

• OPINION

  Iran-US: Man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/02/2024

  » In the immediate aftermath of the massacre of 1,140 Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists last October, US President Joe Biden went to Israel and gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu some good advice.

• OPINION

  Time isn't on Guyana's side for oil income

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/09/2023

  » Guyana is not a "hellhole country" of the sort Donald Trump complained about when he said he wanted immigrants to come to the US from white places like Norway instead, but it did used to be poor, tropical and largely populated by people of colour.

• OPINION

  Predicting what Israel will do next is easy

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/07/2023

  » The two-day Israeli military incursion into the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank (12 Palestinians killed, one Israeli dead) seems at first glance like just another example of "mowing the lawn". That's what the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) call these periodic futile raids they make to kill some Palestinian fighters.

• OPINION

  Can insurance come to our climate rescue?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/06/2023

  » California's fall from grace has been steep and swift, and now even the insurance companies are pulling out. The two biggest American home insurance companies, State Farm and Allstate, announced last week that they will stop selling insurance policies to Californians. Why? Climate change-related wildfires are making it too risky to insure Californian houses.

• OPINION

  How to stop sea level rise at its source

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/06/2022

  » 'Ninety percent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens of kilometres or less across. Stemming the largest flows would allow the ice sheets to thicken, slowing or even reversing their contribution to sea-level rise."

• OPINION

  3 wars, 2 truces: at least some hope out there

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/04/2022

  » Two weeks ago, the three biggest wars in the world were in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Yemen. Now truces have silenced the guns and the air strikes in two of the three. They are only temporary truces so far, but there is a reasonable chance that they could grow into something more permanent.

• OPINION

  Early extinction of fossil fuels a risk in itself

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/12/2021

  » The "new normal", said International Energy Agency spokesperson Heymi Bahar last May, may be a far faster expansion of renewable energy than expected, driven mainly by market forces. So fast, in fact, that it raises a different kind of risk (but he didn't mention that).

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