Technology, chemical weapons and Syria on September 8, 2013President Barack Obama has announced that he will seek authorisation from Congress during the week commencing September 9, for a limited missile strike against the Assad regime. This follows the release on August 30 of a US intelligence report, which concludes with “high confidence”, based on intercepted communications, overhead surveillance, video and witness statements that […]
A new climate change road-map on December 15, 2011The main aim of the UN Climate Summit at Durban, which concluded unsuccessfully, was to produce an agreement about the targets for emissions by the developed countries, and longer term commitments from the developing countries. The current estimate, from several models, for global temperature rise by 2100 is 3.5 degrees Celsius. This is a truly […]