Tuesday links: Global warming, Myanmar, North Korea, Early Bird, Ignatieff and more
- The rise in global carbon emissions is slowing, but not enough. And renewable energy is not coming on fast enough to help. (Thanks Martine.)
- Sydney readers, don't forget next Monday's Lowy Institute Rememberance Day event with novelist Richard Flanagan, who will talk about war and the Australian character.
- A Japanese consortium is gearing up for massive infrastructure projects in Myanmar.
- The Pentagon has abolished its popular Early Bird news compilation, for reasons that reflect the times. For addicts (and I know there are many in the Australian government), here are suggestions for replacements. (Thanks James.)
- North Korea is getting really good at building fake missiles.
- The leading cause of the Syria conflict? Under Bashar, 'the Ba’ath Party increasingly disengaged and decoupled itself from its original political constituency, creating a broad and deep-seated disillusionment with the government within Syrian society.'
- I didn't agree with everything Joshua Foust said in our interview last week, but his analysis of the Snowden leaks is must-read, including on the latest revelations about the NSA's Google and Yahoo! snooping.
- The rise and fall of Michael Ignatieff, from respected academic and public intellectual to failed Canadian opposition leader.