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A 25-year look back at the first global water projections for 2025 finds withdrawals and water stress badly overestimated, the global rainfall signal still undetected, and calls the projections well aligned with observations. The post Grade Expectations. Review of 1990s Water Projections for 2025 Finds Withdrawals Overestimated and Calls the Results Well Aligned appeared first…

Grade Expectations. Review of 1990s Water Projections for 2025 Finds Withdrawals Overestimated and Calls the Results Well Aligned

The Conversation goes with the headline: ‘Key Atlantic currents could collapse this century, but the risk is missing from almost all national climate plans – new study’. AMOC collapse articles and/or studies appear regularly, but what are they studying? Often it’s climate models fed with so-called emissions scenarios. Since this one claims to be offering

Another ‘Atlantic currents could collapse this century’ study – but other studies take a different view

I’m teaching a level 3 option on European Political Theory again this term, for the first time in several years. ‘European’ is used loosely to designate a tradition, rather than all the theorists being European by citizenship. This allows me to include Judith Butler and Achille Mbembe, who engage with that tradition; and Frantz Fanon

Should we teach Louis Althusser? Can we give a voice to Hélène Legotien?