The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service released its dataset for August 2024 today, which found that: August 2024 was the joint-warmest August globally in…
Nine Snaps From the Librairie-café La Vagabonde
The French love books and France still loves supporting local bookstores. And we loved this this one, the Librarie-cafe La Vagabonde, which sits proudly near…
Four Snaps from Lantosque
Four snaps from a late lunch stop in Lantosque, a sleepy town of about 1200 48km north-northeast of Nice and 15km south-southeast of Saint Martin…
Biden Out, Harris In? Headlines from France and Italy
About time. In a Monegasque news stand, some local and regional headlines marking Joe Biden’s decision yesterday to finally step aside.
Nice Opera – images and notes
A series of snaps from opera visits – when I remember to snap some. Above and immediately below, just before the start of ‘La Dame…
The Carbon Con
A nine month investigation by The Guardian, SourceMaterial and Die Zeit found that some of the world’s biggest companies, from Netflix to Ben & Jerry’s,…
Study: Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections. (They knew and lied.)
From Science: A new study showes how Exxon scientists predicted global warming with shocking accuracy between 1977 & 2003. The company failed to act.