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The Guardian (June 30)

2021/ 07/ 02 by jd in Global News

“Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans…. Without an immediate global effort to combat the climate emergency, the Earth’s uninhabitable areas will keep growing.”

 

Wall Street Journal (January 15)

2021/ 01/ 17 by jd in Global News

“Rising temperatures last year capped the world’s warmest decade in modern times.” Moreover, according to the same NASA findings, 2020 tied with 2016 as the hottest year ever. This came “despite cooling ocean currents and a drop in greenhouse gas emissions” associate with the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Sydney Morning Herald (November 9)

2020/ 11/ 10 by jd in Global News

“The coronavirus has hit another sobering milestone: more than 50 million positive cases worldwide since the pandemic began…. The US, with around 4% of the world’s population, represents almost a fifth of all reported cases.”

 

MarketWatch (October 11)

2020/ 10/ 13 by jd in Global News

“For those of you expecting the world to return to some sense of normalcy by the time 2021 rolls around, JPMorgan Chase JPM CEO Jamie Dimon has a message: ‘We’re going to have to live with this.’” Dimon does not “expect normality to return until the summer of 2021.”

 

Boston Globe (April 25)

2020/ 04/ 27 by jd in Global News

“Say it loud, say it clear: Donald Trump needs to resign over his handling of the coronavirus.” With about 4% of the world’s population, the U.S. has so far “had about one-third of all global coronavirus cases and one-quarter of the fatalities.” The “catastrophic failure” is largely due to President Trump. This is “not just the catalog of screw-ups…. It’s that Trump represents an ongoing danger to the health and well-being of the American people.”

 

Financial Times (October 12)

2019/ 10/ 13 by jd in Global News

“Two years ago growth was accelerating in 75 per cent of the world, the IMF now expects it to decelerate in nearly 90 per cent of the global economy in 2019.”

 

South China Morning Post (August 3)

2018/ 08/ 05 by jd in Global News

“China has just ceded its four-year title as the world’s second-largest stock market to Japan, as an intensifying trade spat with the US and its campaign to reduce leverage weighed on equities.”

 

 

The Independent (December 26)

2016/ 12/ 26 by jd in Global News

“We are entering the year of President Trump – and it feels like the world is about to become a lot more dangerous.”

 

LA Times (November 20)

2016/ 11/ 22 by jd in Global News

“Obama’s final foreign trip was his last chance to warn the world about Trump, and to warn Trump about the world.”

 

Reuters (December 14)

2015/ 12/ 16 by jd in Global News

The world finally “learned its lesson and got a climate deal.” The victory in Paris “was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy.” Remarkably, it took place just six years after “countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal.”

 

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