Author Archives: Rashid Faridi

Credit: airbus.com If the headline seems puzzling, try the article that follows it. We’re taken back to the imaginary world of atmospheric ‘blankets’… Surprise effect: Methane cools even as it heats, say researchers

The only reason to write books about reconciling science and religion—as opposed to, say, reconciling sports and religion or business and religion—is if the two fields conflict in some way, and thus… 1,653 more words Sunday Times gives a lukewarm review … Continue reading →

Nicolaas Buitendag, States of exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law – Aosis, 2023 (print and open access e-book) The theoretical underpinnings of public international law have taken the sovereign status of the nation-state for granted since the … Continue reading →

Since the early 1990s the conventional assumption, aligned with modeling, has been that a molecule of human CO2 emission stays in the atmosphere –  its residence time – for centuries. This fits the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) narrative. But empirical … Continue reading →