Mayor's take on climate
The trouble with climate change used to be short-termism. The catastrophe was predicted for a future that lay further away than the next election, so most politicians feared the issue as a potential vote loser. They didn’t dare to ask anybody to make sacrifices or incur costs for the benefits of future generations.
Addicted to light
The alternating periods of light and darkness we experience as the Earth rotates about its axis have changed considerably over time. A gradual slowing of our planet’s rate of rotation has resulted in the average duration of a 24-hour day increasing by some 1.8 milliseconds every century. Read the book review.