The varied headlines on all fronts today tell their tale. Silly season 2013 has come to an end.
David Cameron’s rush to war got a slap in the face: Back from the brink: PM forced to retreat over Syria.
Barack Obama does not want to be seen to be following in Bush’s footsteps: U.S. Facing Test on Proof to Back Taking Action on Syria
In Australia Kevin Rudd is desperate to join the big table: Rudd demands ‘robust’ response to Syrian chemical attack
Angela Merkel is beginning to campaign seriously for the German elections: Greece should never have been allowed to join euro: Merkel
Finally the main stream media are realising that global warming stopped some time ago: Global warming slowdown linked to cooler Pacific waters
Sweden’s equivalent of Eton, the elite Lundsberg school, was closed down by the authorities after some vicious ragging incidents: Swedish boarding school shut down after bullying claims
The gloss on the surface of Incredible India is getting badly tarnished: Economix: India’s Economic Crisis
We are all Martians: Earth life ‘may have come from Mars’
The oldest archaeological sites in the Amazon region: 10,000-year-old remains of settlements are unearthed in Bolivia
A clash between righteous do-gooders: Wind farms are a breach of human rights says UN. No, really.
Even articles in Nature are showing that the IPCC’s reliance on climate models rather than real observations is beginning to look particularly inane: Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years
Surprise! Surprise! Forensic Experts May Be Biased by the Side That Retains Them
Tony Blair continues his money-grubbing ways: TONY BLAIR EN MISSION POUR LA PAIX… SUR UN YACHT
A late spring and a short summer has led to Arctic ice melting much slower than for many years: IS ARCTIC SEA ICE REBOUNDING?