• OPINION

  The gigantic 'anomaly' in climate change

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2024

  » It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now. We know that when there was strong warming on our planet (like at the end of the last Ice Age about 11,000 years ago), there were sudden big leaps in the global temperature. It wasn't a smooth process at all.

• OPINION

  Last woman standing: Nikki Haley for Potus

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/02/2024

  » 'I refuse to quit. I feel no need to kiss the ring," said Nikki Haley defiantly.

• OPINION

  Indonesian poll serves up a curious outcome

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/02/2024

  » Indonesia's President Joko Widodo concluded his second five-year term last Tuesday with a national election in which his chosen successors won a convincing victory. "Jokowi", as everybody calls him, still enjoys 70% public approval, and he has every right to be proud of his past.

• OPINION

  Mideast missile madness gets even worse

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/01/2024

  » Not all that long ago, attacking another country's territory was still seen as a big deal. It was, in legal terms, an "act of war", liable to have unpleasant and potentially unlimited consequences, including full-scale war. Very powerful countries occasionally made small, one-off attacks on very weak ones to "discipline" them, but even that was relatively rare.

• OPINION

  Schrödinger's Island: Taiwan election 2024

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/01/2024

  » Taiwan's fate is as unknowable as usual, even though we know who the next president will be. The Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) William Lai, vice-president under outgoing President Tsai Ing-Wen, will almost certainly win the election tomorrow because the two opposition parties failed to agree on a joint candidate and will split the slightly-less-anti-China vote between them.

• OPINION

  2024: the year it got (really) hot

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/01/2024

  » The year 2023 has probably been the hottest in the past 10,000 years -- but everybody agrees that 2024 will be even hotter. That's because we are now entering El Niño, the part of a seven-yearly oceanic cycle that heaps extra heat on whatever is already occurring.

• OPINION

  Long ceasefire in Gaza may snooker Hamas

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/11/2023

  » There are really three parties to the "pause" -- nobody is officially using the word "ceasefire" -- that brings at least a temporary end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Two of the three parties, Hamas and the United States, would very much like it to turn into a permanent ceasefire, but Israel emphatically does not.

• OPINION

  The frog, the scorpion and Hamas

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/11/2023

  » Stop me if you've heard this story before. Or rather, don't, because it's relevant to the current situation, and we have to bring the people who don't know the story up to speed first.

• OPINION

  Life elsewhere will someday be possible

  Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/09/2023

  » This week's real news is the discovery of life on another planet. As Cambridge University's Nikku Madhusudhan said in the first sentence of his report: "The search for habitable environments and biomarkers in exoplanetary atmospheres is the holy grail of exoplanet science." And he has probably found the Holy Grail.

• OPINION

  Clock is ticking for Armenians in Karabakh

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/09/2023

  » The Armenians are a people of great antiquity -- the first Armenian kingdom was in the 8th century BC -- but they grew up in a tough neighbourhood, and they have been in retreat for a very long time.

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