• OPINION

  Climate pact underestimates risk

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/12/2015

  » The climate deal that almost 200 countries agreed to in Paris on Saturday was far better than most insiders dared to hope even one month ago.

• OPINION

  With Trump, the climate change fight just got harder

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/11/2016

  » Even before Donald Trump hijacked the Republican Party, he was loudly declaring that the science of climate change, like Barack Obama, had not been born in the United States. It was, he insisted in 2012, a Chinese hoax "created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive".

• OPINION

  Davos rich see their world collapsing

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/01/2017

  » 'I can't wait to see how the incoming administration deals with AI [artificial intelligence]," said US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a less-than-gracious reference to the fact that the Trump team hasn't got a clue about the real driving force in the changing world economy.

• OPINION

  Doomsday Clock gets the time all wrong

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/02/2017

  » 'Without a proper sense of urgency, we will be eventually defeated, dominated and very likely destroyed," wrote former general Michael Flynn, President Trump's National Security Adviser, last year. "They are dead set on taking us over and drinking our blood."

• OPINION

  President Trump all talk when it comes to return of coal

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/04/2017

  » 'My administration is putting an end to the war on coal," said Donald Trump, surrounded by the usual gaggle of officials and (in this case) coal-miners, as he put his super-size signature on the Energy Independence Executive Order. But coal is dying as a major energy source in the United States for reasons far beyond the reach of executive orders.

• OPINION

  Trump carries on US tradition of abandoning pacts

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/06/2017

  » It's not just Donald Trump. The United States has a long record of negotiating international agreements and then running away from them. The rest of the world has an equally long record of heaving a sigh of regret, telling the Americans it will be happy to have them back when they get over it, and carrying on without them. It will do it again over the Paris accord on climate change.

• OPINION

  Climate change creeps up on us all

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/09/2017

  » At least a decade ago, a retired general at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies said to me that the rich countries will never take climate change seriously until some very big and apparently climate-related disaster happens in a first-world country. Hurricane Harvey was not that disaster.

• OPINION

  So far, so good as it's all quiet on the climate front

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/11/2017

  » 'Promoting coal at a climate summit is like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit," said Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, but President Donald J Trump did exactly that. He sent a team of American diplomats and energy executives to the annual world climate summit, being held this year in Bonn, Germany, to extol the wonders of "clean" coal.

• OPINION

  When nature starts to lose the eco-battle

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/12/2017

  » Whenever I get the chance, I go diving. The whole family are divers, right down to the grandchildren: It's one of the pretexts we use to get together. And we all know the coral reefs are dying.

• 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.

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