Wishful thinking or new science? A little boomlet of data showing that average global temperatures DROPPED last year, with the largest snowpack across North America in 30-odd years and the thickest Arctic sea ice since 1966. Snow in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Greece…
One researcher suggests that the drop in global temperature in 2007 was so great that [...]
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This column first appeared in Business & Finance magazine in November 2007.
Richard Delevan
In Ireland we - or at least the 70% of us who use a private car to get to work - are worried that Brian Cowen will look to balance the budget on the back of drivers by raising taxes on petrol and [...]
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In the 20 months I was business editor at the Sunday Tribune, I was privileged to work with some superb reporters, subeditors and photographer. I’m glad we paid attention to topics before most others did in the Irish market. In particular, we paid serious and sustained attention to Dublin’s relationship to the US subprime [...]
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This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune on 16 September 2007.
The business end of saving the planetRichard Delevan
WHEN Body Shop founder Anita Roddick passed away last week aged 64, the obits told the tale of how her ethic of green capitalism travelled from fringe to mainstream.
Now her ideas, once dismissed as anti-business, nestle comfortably [...]
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This column first appeared in the 19 August 2007 edition of the Sunday Tribune.
Richard DelevanOK, CLASS. Raise your hands if you think studying maths and science are important. Now, would it change your mind if I, like the minister for education and employers’ group Ibec, appeal to your 17-year-old sense of patriotic duty? Ireland [...]
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This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune 1 July 2007.
Richard Delevan
Building nuclear power stations in Ireland is not going to happen. But that won’t stop some people from wanting to waste time and resources debating the issue. So who benefits? The main boosters for nuclear are 1) Amicus, an ESB trade union desperate to [...]
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